The Day the Mediterranean Dried Up.

It always astonishes me, this fascination with Aliens from Roswell to The Avengers. It's like E.T.'s have just discovered Planet Earth, or Planet Hollywood to be more precise. Come on, doesn't anyone read Geography any more? Like since this planet is a few Billion Years old, surely them Aliens would have visited before. I mean like who would have interested them more, Arnie or T Rex? Though I wonder.

Anyway, as we all know, the Mediterranean filled up some 200 Million years ago. Why? In there lies a story known to a select few. Like the Witwicky Family. Anyway the story goes something like this. Seems there was an Alien Civilisation, some Light Years away who were more advanced than us in that they had wiped out almost all their resources including the precious Oxygen that kept them going.

But by then through their advanced technology they had identified our planet as a possible source of this element and also had the tech to make the journey to Earth less Tedious. So, without much ado, they sent a probe that landed off the coast of Sicily (take that, Hollywood!) stuck an element analyser in the sea and lo and Behold, Oxygen, some other element and also lots of the stuff that made their food more palatable. Yes, you guessed it, Salt.  

So they called up their transporters ships, started pumping and, before you knew it, no more sea around Italy. Or Greece; you get what I mean. Interestingly, It was while they were departing this planet that their Fleet Commander realised the Flotilla was heating up. A physicist on board, like the Vulcan Sheldon opined that it could be because of the presence of a gas. So they sent out a probe, whose analysis of the components of said gas flashed on the Command Screen, seeing which the Commander is rumoured to have said "S..t! it would have been far easier to compress this gas and Cart it!"

Anyway, on reaching their planet they set to work splitting the ingredients of the sea water for the precious Oxygen using  Fusion theory but, being as away from a safe method for this process as us, ended up blowing  their planet away. Called Alderan if I am not mistaken. Yes, E.T.'s do goof up at times.

Well, a few million years later  I believe an earthquake happened near the mouth of the Gibraltar Straits, creating a crack through the Atlantic flowed in, creating what we now call the Mediterranean Sea. Sans sharks, who, since they don't sleep, keep track of things like the disappearance of their Med. cousins and stayed away. Hence you don't have any sharks of note like the Great White in the Med. unless you count the Mafia.  

Disclaimer:

This is an ancient tale which I happened to notice when those Winchester Boys of "Supernatural" fame were leafing through those ancient ledgers in search of ways to withstand the lure of those sneaky Mediterranean Mermaids. Hence I cannot guarantee its authenticity though it does make for a fascinating tale.