Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean 321
RcK writes "Numerous articles are springing up regarding a feature found using the new Google Ocean, which some claim could be the location of Atlantis. While this is obviously early, and probably has the same credibility levels as previous claims of finding the mythical city, the detected anomaly is quite convincingly linear, is apparently the size of Wales and sits near where Plato hypothesized the city to be located." Google has stated that this is an issue with the way their ocean mapping software is working, but clearly that is a cover up while Google execs try to buy the real estate. I just hope they bring back Elvis next.
Re:The Sun? (Score:4, Funny)
Numerous articles and you pick the sun?
Anyway here it is on google map
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=31.480209,-24.120483&spn=2.988616,5.026245&t=h&z=8 [google.com]
Don't knock the Sun. It's at least as good as the Weekly World News!
Government-Sponsored Lies! (Score:3, Funny)
Oh please, we already know where Atlantis is! Dr. Beckett [wikipedia.org] parked it in San Francisco, next to the Golden Gate Bridge [wikipedia.org].
This is just a government-sponsored lie to try to hide the fact that they already know about and have control of Atlantis. Anyone who watches TV knows the truth.
Proof that it's real (Score:5, Funny)
Google just got a DMCA takedown notice from Aquaman.
Re:The Sun? (Score:2, Funny)
Could've been worse...he could've used the New York Times instead. :-P
Re:The SUN is always an entertaining read ... (Score:4, Funny)
Finally, I'm no longer limited to just searching the continents for Waldo. Now, I can also search the oceans.
I swear I'll find him, and when I do, he better look out!
9600 BC called... (Score:3, Funny)
huh? (Score:3, Funny)
I just hope they bring back Elvis next.
I don't get it - what did ScuttleMonkey mean by that? Did something happen to Elvis recently?
Re:The Sun? (Score:5, Funny)
Where's the street view guy? That's what we really need.
Re:Proof that it's real (Score:2, Funny)
Google just got a DMCA takedown notice from Aquaman.
Oh, that's nothing; just wait 'till Google catches a glimpse of Cthullu...there'll be a "takedown" notice issued, alright...;-)
=Smidge=
Re:Even if... how BIG it should be? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Missing geek details (Score:5, Funny)
Re:People, seriously. (Score:5, Funny)
Yes, the truly enlightened know it was a veiled reference to R'Lyeh.
Plato was just protecting his audience from the inevitable madness that seethes from that name!
Re:The Sun? (Score:4, Funny)
Better, even. Ever seen boobs on page 3 of Weekly World News?
No. I was too busy looking at boobs in the line at the store.
Re:The SUN is always an entertaining read ... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, I've got a plan.
In fact, I've got the one-size-fits-all latex suit, love swing (NSFW)http://www.stockroom.com/The-Love-Swing-P1361.aspx [stockroom.com], handcuffs and broom handle ready for when I catch him!
Re:The Sun? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:People, seriously. (Score:5, Funny)
For your own safety, please read to the end of this comment before replying.
1. How can the Athenians have fought a war against another civilization at a time when all good archaeology and paleontology tells us humans didn't yet live in developed cities or fight wars?
Because all good archaeology might be wrong, and temple-based civilization, with the possibilities of undiscovered cities, may be 11,000 years old. [smithsonianmag.com]
2. How can Plato's source have known about Atlantis? It's not mentioned in any of the preserved archives of the ancient Egyptians.
Err... we have a very small fraction of material from ancient Egypt, thanks to the destruction of the great library at Alexandria. Hell, we know things about PLATO that are only attested to in secondary sources. There's no reason Atlantis couldn't be the same.
3. How can knowledge of this so-called war and apocalypse have survived until ca. 350 BCE when the Greeks didn't have reliable information about their own history going back before 1000 BCE? Hint: if you say "but the Iliad..." I am going to beat you repeatedly with a copy of the collected works of Milman Parry.
It is far easier for me to find out about the War of the Roses or the Hundred Years War than it is to find out about what happened in my hometown 100 years ago. Obviously a huge apocalyptic war is going to leave far more footprints in history than anything that happened in the Greek Dark Age, which was after all pretty goddamned black, to the extent that writing itself was lost.
Ok, if you've got this far I'll give you the REAL reason why we should take Plato seriously on Atlantis: Plato ALSO tells us that originally human beings had two halves and were four-legged, joined at the back. They split in two to create the humans we have today, and the natural sexual affinities that are observed in humans are the result of us seeking our other half. Those of us who should have been joined to another of different sex are heterosexuals, and those who should have been joined to another of the same sex are homosexuals.
Since this is obviously true, the story of Atlantis must be true as well. I mean, Plato wouldn't just make stuff up for the sake of a good story, would he?
Oh, yeah: "The Iliad." (ducks)
Re:The article explains it (Score:5, Funny)
C'mon man. Where's your critical thinking? The answer is obvious. The Atlantians were obviously GIANTS.
Re:The Sun? (Score:2, Funny)
They tried to drive their Google trucks there, but for some reason the engines flooded.
Re:The Sun? (Score:5, Funny)
I hate 90 degree angles too. Maybe we should form a support group.
Re:Ahhh, The Weekly World News reborn. (Score:3, Funny)
What we have there is obviously ... a giant space flyswatter! The martians used it to squish some giant space fly. Don't look under it, you won't like what you find. :)
Ia! Ia! Ph'nglui mglw'nafh C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
Re:The SUN is always an entertaining read ... (Score:5, Funny)
Where's "-1, Sick" when we need it?
Not too deep... (Score:1, Funny)
Your instincts are wrong. If you remember your history during ice age there was a lot of ice. That's why they call it that. So Atlantians were not above ocean, but below it since it was frozen and it was too cold above. The trenches are obviously whats left of their mega metropolises that spanned for 100s of miles. I wouldn't be surprised of that large depressions is their attempt to dig into the earth crust, closer to the core where it's still warm. That's pretty much common sense. Once ice age ended tunnels collapsed under weight of water and are now visible as trenches on the ocean floor.