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Who would have thought?

Who would have thought that it actually happened?

Because a lot of people take it as like a metaphor, right?

Yeah, and I understand why.

I understand why.

But, I mean, it's interesting.

I think one of the biggest structures that we had built after that, I think, was something like around the Titanic era.

It might have been the Titanic itself, meaning the dimensions were gargantuan.

But they'd done some interesting studies about the size of an average animal.

And if you...

get the size of an average animal, because people only think of elephants, for example, but the size of an average animal is about the size of the sheep.

You could put them all in there, and you're not taking any aquatic animals.

That eliminates a large percentage of what would go in there.

And I would say some of the fossil record bears this out.

The fossil record itself is filled with what's called catastrophism, meaning you constantly have these strange things like fossil graveyards.

People don't learn about these as much as they should.

You have all these types of different creatures, including freshwater and saltwater together in these massive fossil graveyards.

The only explanation from what I've been able to understand is massive bodies of water by force dumping all these dead creatures together.

We have examples of fish being buried with animals partially digested.

That's rapid burial.