History YMMV / Flood

!!YMMV for the album by Music/TheyMightBeGiants:

* SequelDisplacement: It is by far the most well-known TMBG album to this day to the extent that some don't even realize that it's the band's third album. Part of this is due to the fact that their previous two albums (plus a b-side compilation) were for an independent label, whereas ''Flood'' was their major label debut.

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: When Baxter first wrote the series, he just was trying to play MundaneDogmatic with TheGreatFlood; his only citations were some shaky hypotheses about super-reservoirs beneath Beijing that he really didn't take too seriously. In 2014, a diamond excavated from ultra-deep mining operations in Juína, Mato Grosso, western Brazil, was found to contain inclusions of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite#Geological_occurrences ringwoodite]] -- the only known sample of natural terrestrial origin -- thus providing evidence of significant amounts of water as hydroxide in the Earth's mantle. If anything, he ''underestimated'' the amount of water locked away underground by ''several orders of magnitude'' -- he proposed the equivalent of another Atlantic in subterranean reservoirs, deflating the planet like a balloon even as it flooded the surface. It is currently estimated that the ringwoodite deposits might contain ''three times'' more water than the oceans do!

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: When Baxter first wrote the series, he just was trying to play MundaneDogmatic with TheGreatFlood; his only citations were some shaky hypotheses about super-reservoirs beneath Beijing that he really didn't take too seriously. In 2014, an ultra-deep diamond excavated from ultra-deep mining operations in Juína, Mato Grosso, western Brazil, was found to contain inclusions of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite#Geological_occurrences ringwoodite]] -- the only known sample of natural terrestrial origin -- thus providing evidence of significant amounts of water as hydroxide in the Earth's mantle. If anything, he ''underestimated'' the amount of water locked away underground by ''several orders of magnitude'' -- he proposed the equivalent of another Atlantic in subterranean reservoirs, deflating the planet like a balloon even as it flooded the surface. It is currently estimated that the ringwoodite deposits might contain ''three times'' more water than the oceans do!

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: When Baxter first wrote the series, he just was trying to play MundaneDogmatic with TheGreatFlood; his only citations were some shaky hypotheses about super-reservoirs beneath Beijing that he really didn't take too seriously. In 2014, an ultra-deep diamond excavated from ultra-deep mining operations in Juína, Mato Grosso, western Brazil, was found to contain inclusions of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite#Geological_occurrences ringwoodite]] -- the only known sample of natural terrestrial origin -- thus providing evidence of significant amounts of water as hydroxide in the Earth's mantle. If anything, he ''underestimated'' the amount of water locked away underground by ''several orders of magnitude'' -- he proposed the equivalent of another Atlantic in subterranean reservoirs, deflating the planet like a balloon even as it flooded the surface. It is currently estimated that the ringwoodite deposits contain ''three times'' more water than the oceans do!

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: When Baxter first wrote the series, he just was trying to play MundaneDogmatic with TheGreatFlood; his only citations were some shaky hypotheses about super-reservoirs beneath Beijing that he really didn't take too seriously. In 2014, an ultra-deep diamond excavated from ultra-deep mining operations in Juína, Mato Grosso in western Brazil, was found to contain inclusions of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringwoodite#Geological_occurrences ringwoodite]] -- the only known sample of natural terrestrial origin -- thus providing evidence of significant amounts of water as hydroxide in the Earth's mantle. If anything, he ''underestimated'' the amount of water locked away underground by ''several orders of magnitude'' -- he proposed the equivalent of another Atlantic in subterranean reservoirs, deflating the planet like a balloon even as it flooded the surface. It is currently estimated that the ringwoodite deposits contain ''three times'' more water than the oceans do!

* NotSoCrazyAnymore: When Baxter first wrote the series, he just was trying to play MundaneDogmatic with TheGreatFlood; his only citations were some shaky hypotheses about super-reservoirs beneath Beijing that he really didn't take too seriously. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(Baxter_novel)#.22Hard_science.22_basis_for_novel In 2014,]] an ultra-deep diamond found in Juína, Mato Grosso in western Brazil, contained inclusions of ringwoodite -- the only known sample of natural terrestrial origin -- thus providing evidence of significant amounts of water as hydroxide in the Earth's mantle. If anything, he ''underestimated'' the amount of water locked away underground -- by ''several orders of magnitude.''