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Title: Is the lost city of Atlantis on Google Maps? (Telegraph)
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer/London Torygraph
URL Source: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblo ... ves/238865.asp?from=blog_last3
Published: Feb 10, 2011
Author: Nick Eaton
Post Date: 2011-02-10 21:53:50 by Original_Intent
Keywords: Archaeology, Atlantis, Ancient, Civilization
Views: 1018
Comments: 69
It's rectangular. It certainly looks man-made. It's off the coast of North Africa. It's deep underwater. And it's on Google Maps. Could it be the ancient lost city of Atlantis? That's what Bernie Bamford, a British aeronautical engineer, wondered after he spotted an unusual pattern of rectangles on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, The Telegraph newspaper reports. About the size of Connecticut, the pattern looks an awful lot like an aerial grid map of a city. Check the site out on Google Maps. Here's an excerpt from The Telegraph report: According to his account, the city sank beneath the ocean after its residents made a failed effort to conquer Athens around 9000 B.C. Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University told The Sun that the find was fascinating and warranted further inspection. You can read more about the intriguing find at The Telegraph's website. Check out the Atlantis Wikipedia page for more info on the mythical city. Poster Comment: Judging just by the Troll Index and the number of Troll comments on the posting (which is a contrary indicator) there may just be some there, there.
Atlantis experts said that the unexplained grid is located at one of the possible sites of the legendary island, which was described by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.
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#7. To: Original_Intent, more crap from duff man, all (#0)
This is an old story. bits.blogs.nytimes.com/20...tery-mystery-of-atlantis/ ...According to Google, it’s time to shelve those tinfoil hats. In an interview, Steve Miller, product manager for Ocean in Google Earth, firmly debunked rumors that the crisscross markings were anything other than artificial data remnants left by sonar-equipped boats collecting data from the ocean floor. While sound waves are considered to be more effective than satellites for mapping strips of the ocean floor, they’re often more expensive and time-consuming to use. “The boats have to go slowly. Otherwise, they make a lot of noise and can wash out the readings,” said Mr. Miller. As a result, boats are used less frequently, leaving fewer gridlike sonar patterns visible on Google Earth’s map of the ocean. ...
Seems like a nice enough fella... artificial data remnants Sounds like one of those pseudo-scientific bullshit phrases trolls throw around. Like "persistent contrails" or "exterior column buckling" due to "fire weakened trusses" wudidiz is officially calling bullshit on the Google statement.
I doubt it's Atlantis, but it does look like roads.
You have to zoom out about 150 miles to even see this "city". And the "roads" are at least a mile wide. Use the "ruler" tool at the top to measure this. .
Oh. You again.
Maybe they built their metropolis in strips, the "roads" being their buildings with open fields between them. It would be more attractive than modern cities all crowded up.
Seems more plausible than the "artificial data remnants" explanation from "firm debunker" Steve Miller. ... the "roads" are at least a mile wide so they had really big cars Sounds like one of those pseudo-scientific bullshit phrases trolls throw around. Like "persistent contrails" or "exterior column buckling" due to "fire weakened trusses" Exactly. Right angles do not occur in nature. Rectangular, right angled layouts betray the hand of man. The corners of the area are too perpendicular and occurring in too many instances to be formed naturally. You can definitely see the hand of man in those line formations. This is some good stuff! lol
I like the subject. The evidence isn't strong enough yet but there is enough reason for more research. We may discover the antediluvian world had a history beyond anything we can imagine. It is a modern vanity that modern man has been around such a short time and that science has only arisen once in the West. I see no reason to believe that. Almost nothing is really new. We see this over and over. I think it's something of a holdover from the old Christian teachings about a young-earth creation, going back only 5500 years. It somehow still stifles historical and scientific imagination. The past of mankind may be much wilder than imagined.
It is a modern vanity that modern man has been around such a short time and that science has only arisen once in the West. I see no reason to believe that. Almost nothing is really new. We see this over and over. I think it's something of a holdover from the old Christian teachings about a young-earth creation, going back only 5500 years. It somehow still stifles historical and scientific imagination. The past of mankind may be much wilder than imagined. Very well said, thank you.
#61. To: wudidiz, TooConservative, christine, GreyLmist (#59)
It also drives the Darwinists bonkers because it upsets all of their theories and timelines. If you push anatomically modern man much further into the past it means that a lot of the monkeys they argue were human predecessors were, well, monkeys. I think we already have evidence that suggests both - a wilder history, and one or more prior technologically advanced cultures. While Lamesteam science in the West wants to discount it there is a lot in the Indian Vedas which describes aircraft and even nuclear weapons. That was even acceded to by Robert Oppenheimer at the first nuclear test. The exact quote was: Which is a paraphrase of a quote from the Bhagavad Gita: The Physicist J.B.S. Haldane is credited with the quote: Robert Thompson and Michael Cremo confounded the Archaeologic Community with their book "Forbidden Archaeology" wherein using evidence and research already on record showed that there was a strong case for a much greater antiquity for the rise of anatomically modern man. To date Cremo and Thompson stand unrefuted. Prof. Robert Schoch has shown that the Sphinx, and its enclosure, can only have suffered the extreme water erosion which they have been subjected to if it was built before 8,000 B.C. which is when the Giza Plateau went from a wet climate to desert. Which is at least 5,000 years before lamestream Egyptology says it was built. Christopher Dunn has done a lot of work showing that the level of precision in the manufacture of the monuments of Giza can really only be explained if one assumes that the builders had powered machine tools. Lots of intriguing evidence and the lamestream is slowly being forced, kicking and screaming all the way, to acknowledge it.
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#10. To: PSUSA, Original_Intent, GreyLmist, *ban buckeroo* (#7)
Steve Miller
#12. To: Original_Intent, GreyLmist, PSUSA, All (#10)
#18. To: wudidiz (#12)
I doubt it's Atlantis, but it does look like roads.
#20. To: PSUSA (#18)
the "roads" are at least a mile wide
so they had really big cars
#26. To: wudidiz (#20)
the "roads" are at least a mile wide
#27. To: TooConservative, the thread (#26)
Maybe they built their metropolis in strips, the "roads" being their buildings with open fields between them. It would be more attractive than modern cities all crowded up. ...
#28. To: PSUSA (#27)
#59. To: TooConservative, Original_Intent, christine, GreyLmist, *Post Of The Day* (#28)
I like the subject. The evidence isn't strong enough yet but there is enough reason for more research. We may discover the antediluvian world had a history beyond anything we can imagine.
Replies to Comment # 59. I think it's something of a holdover from the old Christian teachings about a young-earth creation, going back only 5500 years. It somehow still stifles historical and scientific imagination.
TC: The past of mankind may be much wilder than imagined.
Wud: Very well said, thank you.
"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
"If the radiance of a thousand suns
Were to burst at once into the sky
That would be like the splendor of the Mighty one...
I am become Death,
The shatterer of Worlds." "The universe is not only queerer than we think it is queerer than we can think."
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