User blog:Scrawland Scribblescratch/For Want of A Better Name

Well hello everyone, here is my very first blog post on this wiki. I always intended to make a blog post and I always had a lot of things that I'd like to share, so instead of making seperate blogs and cluttering up the Wiki, I compiled everything into one blog!

If you're already thinking that this shouldn't be a blogpost, skip to the bottom and read what I wrote there.

Lost Continents
It has long been an interest of mine to find out about sunken continents. My favorite one is Zealandia, which only has three parts about land now that make up New Zealand and New Caledonia.

I also read that one time, Europeans (the helpless ones who accidentally discovered everything else) believed that there was an "Arctic" continent. This is very understandable because no one has actually ever gone that far North because they thought the Earth was flat.

I like to call this body of land "Arctica" as a Northern parallel to Antarctica. What if it existed?

Now, there was also a belief about the South. After discovering the New World, they thought there was this "big" thing in the South. They thought Australia was this. However, they thought it was very big, because they never went there and only saw it from far away. They also thought it was connected to South America and/or the Falklands. Their explanation for Magellan was that "a great river did flow through the South" meaning that they thought the Drake Passage was a series of rivers! Anyways, their name for this great continent was "Terra Australis."

I made a map to demonstrate what the world would look like if these continents and Zealandia, Kerguelen, and other minor continents and some sunken areas and island came up and I also included some little islands. However, I can't upload the map right now.

Astronomy
Another obsession of mine is astronomy. I make lots of maps of the Solar System, many of which have hypothetical planets and moons.

Starting from the Sun, a list of hypothetical planets and moons combined with real ones of OTL that I created follows:
 * Vulcan: the Innermost planet. When observing Mercury, some scientists in the 1800s saw a dot on the Sun that moved. They thought it was a planet and termed it Vulcan. However further studies and observations showed that it was an optical illusion created by staring at the Sun and Mercury too long.
 * Mercury: the real first planet in real life.
 * Venus: the same old planet.
 * Neith: A moon of Venus that some old dude thought he saw. Turned out it was a small body that was temporarily caught by the gravitational pull of Venus. Further research into this showed me that there could possibly have been a moon of Venus a long, long time ago (nearly millions of years ago). It is also believed that this same moon crashed into Venus later on, thus creating the extremes in temperature that Venus has now.
 * Earth: Yes, Earth, our home planet.
 * the Moon: The regular moon
 * Thetis: The name given to the thing that crashed into Earth to make the Moon appear from the debris.
 * Mars: The same God of War.
 * Deimos: The same son of Ares.
 * Phobos: Also the same son.
 * Phaeton: They allegedly say that Phaeton broke up due to the gravity of the Sun and Jupiter and came to form the Asteroid Belt. Today we know that something so big or so small could not have formed the asteroid belt. What could have formed the asteroid belt had to be smaller than the projected size for Phaeton. But then this planet would not be able to come so far in to the Inner Solar System.
 * Jupiter: The Planet with a million moons. (Well, we all know that it isn't a million moons. Just more likely sixty-two.)
 * Saturn: Lord of the Rings
 * Uranus: Still sideways.
 * Neptune: Still blue and the King of the Sea.
 * Pluto: Still the small guy. Although, I have to make an argument here. All those big people up top say that Pluto was the "Greek God of the Underworld." I for one, not being stupid and having a great knowledge of Greek mythology, know that that (haha, that that looks funny there) is completely a lie and not true. Pluto was the Roman God of the Underworld. The Greek and original was the Great Hades.

Architecture
I am a very big fan of architecture and know tons of stuff about the topic, like about facades and all that other stuff you probably never heard of. For this reason, I made a whole page dedicated to architecture in my timeline here. I spent all day working on it.

Elections
For all my fellow Americans out there, the recent news the Rick Santorum dropped out of the primaries has probably shocked us all. I, a liberal, often like to guess who is the best conservative/Republican candidate for every election. My choice was Rick Santorum. He seemed like a far better choice than Mitt Romney, who will win the Republican nomination indubitably. I was hoping that old Newt Gingrich would drop out. Then all his states would lean towards Santorum and Romney, thus giving Santorum some more ground. But then Santorum himself dropped out. Quite a shame. Anyways who do you think will win the Republican nomination? My money's on Romney. Sorry for wasting your time if you're not American!

On the other hand, the 2012 Election in my timeline is here.

Other Things
I had a lot of other things to put in this blog, but I forgot them all. As I remember them, I think I'll put them up here.

On a side note, since I directed you here from the top, if anyone thinks I was spamming or something, just tell me and I'll remove the blog post right away.

Syngraféas Enallaktikí̱ Istoría, Dic mihi lingua Anglorum. 04:12, April 14, 2012 (UTC)