There is an ocean in this world called the Sahara Ocean. Can anyone disprove it?
2007-03-05 20:10:17 · 9 answers · asked by Adia Azrael 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Never heard of it, Please provide more info.
2007-03-05 20:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by ALI G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It would depend. Are you saying that there is a body of water generally called the Sahara Ocean, that there is a Ocean in the Sahara, or that you have chosen to call a part of what others consider another ocean, the Shara ocean.
The first can be proven or disproven by collecting maps and showing that the name Shara Ocean is not commonly used.
One can disprove the existence of an ocean in the Sahara desert by agreeing on a minimum amount of water that can be called an ocean, agreeing on what part of Africa constitutes the Sahara, and showing through a tour or photography that that amoun of water does not exist in that space.
The third is not provable or disprovable as it is semantic. Is there a planet called Shabtai? Not in English. Where I grew up Shabtai was the name of Saturn. Were we wrong? No. We used different words to describe something.
2007-03-06 04:19:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm, that's kind of strange. The name is not the reality. So I guess if you wanted to call one of the oceans "Sahara" then the "Sahara Ocean" would then exist. The only reason we would currently say it doesn't is because nobody in any language has yet decided to name one of the oceans "Sahara." (or maybe they have, I sure don't know every language! And in Sanskrit, the ocean is called sagara, I think, which is close! haha).
You could prove that no map lists a Sahara Ocean, and that no dictionary refers to a Sahara Ocean, and things like that. You could thereby reason that at least in English, the term "Sahara Ocean" has no referent.
2007-03-06 04:39:53 · answer #3 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no such ocean. There's a Sahara Desert in Northern Africa. In fact, the Arabic word for desert is as-sahra.
You can call the Sahara Desert an ocean of sand, of course.
2007-03-06 04:22:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sahara is name of a desert,not ocean.
2007-03-06 04:21:37 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, the proto-whale fossils are pretty good evidence it was once there.
If you look at all respectable cartographic sources and they do not list a "Sahara Ocean", nothing bears the name.
2007-03-06 04:17:03 · answer #6 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. By using satellite
2007-03-06 04:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I duno about that but I've been to the Mediterranean jungle and the Pacific desert!!XD
2007-03-06 04:25:53 · answer #8 · answered by <Xariel the Stray> 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
many moons ago!
2007-03-06 04:34:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋