From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   swp (stephen.w.perry@gmail.com) writes:   
   > gilgamesh [how many of you know this because of the star trek: the next   
   > generation episode 'darmok']   
   >   
      
   I mainly know of Gilgamesh thanks to the book Noah's Flood, where two   
   ocenaographs present a theory of how the Black Sea was turned from a   
   sweetwater lake without an outlet, to what it is now when the Sea   
   of Marmara - and with the rest of the oceanss behind it - created a   
   dam burst and flooded the lake.   
      
   The connection to Gilgamesh is that it includes a flooding story, which   
   the authors want to connect to the Black Sea flooding, and they also   
   speculate that the legend lived on and eventually formed the basis   
   for the story about Noah in the bible.   
      
   The oceanographic part of the book certinly feels more robust than   
   the speculations about Noah.   
      
   Star Trek, on the other hand, is something I know very little about.   
      
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