re: #51 Targetpractice

When I was in my teens I too used to read all sorts of fringe stuff. This was before your time, but books about Lemuria, the lost continent sunk in the Pacific, caught my eye.

Ironically, geologists today do believe there was another continent in the Pacific, that it subducted under North America, and that is how we got the Cascades. All that is left of the Farallon plate is off the coasts of those states, outlined by undersea fault lines.

Back in those days, in the back of comics there used to be adverts for all kinds of stuff through the mail. Included in these ads were bundles of books which were cheaply printed paperback “forbidden” books, full of stuff like Rosicrucian pamphlets, etc. I ordered some of those package, remember getting them and being thoroughly disappointed.

Fortunately I was also into hard science, and this interest won the day.