Atlantis found!

[Gary]

THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis.
It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down.
A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary.



http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece

Here is a direct link to Google maps before they black it out
http://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=31.358328,-24.505005&spn=8.456899,14.0625&t=h&z=6

[Gary]

Pretty amazing stuff!

[unipax]

wow!
there are two other possibilities I have heard of.

which of all these is atlantis?
one in east med

other off sw coast of cuba reported by Lind M Howe

probably more as well
oh yeah, bimini road, and that structure off Japan coast

oh yeah the one S pacific, maybe Palau, I forget

[₣яэđĸĊ]

Here is a direct link to Google maps before they black it out



....was spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford as he browsed through Google Ocean.

Last night Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University — and one of the world’s leading authorities on Atlantis — called it “fascinating”.

It's already been in The Sun, and on FAUX News, and.... well fat chance of Google blocking it now. More free press than they could dream of, I'm thinkin'.

By the way ...
I learned of this about 90 minutes ago. Rushed here thinkin' I'd suprise everyone.... s'what I get for sleepin' in.

Cool find tho. I wonder if the press will cover anything further on it?

[Gary]

Hi Fred, well we might be in for a disappointment mate, someone just posted this on disclose tv
WELL SADLLY IT SEEMS THIS IS NOT ATLANTIS:

"pooms says:
Wednesday, 28th January 2009 at 8:41 pm

Apparently the grid-pattern location was studied for disposal of radioactive waste, so I would guess that it has something to do with the information they gathered about the site.
Here is a research report from ‘87 http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/15118/01/250.PDF. the diagrams near the end show the location of the study site ."

AND

"LarryM says:
Thursday, 5th February 2009 at 5:58 pm

I’m an oceanographer. I can tell you the grid pattern is simply the location where a ship has been to collect high-resolution data. In most places, the seafloor bathymetry is deduced from satellite measurement of the sea surface. It’s the “predicted bathymetry”, a good guess, but still, not as reliable as a direct measurement. In this case, some ship went there, collected bathymetry, but it seems that it didn’t agree exactly with predicted bathymetry, so the ship tracks appear as a grid. It shows how poorly know the seafloot really is! There are many other places where similar tracks are found (for example see a bit to the east). The tracks are particularly visible where the seafloor is sedimented and very smooth, like here. As for the irregularity, it’s a function of targeting study locations and minimizing the time (and cost) of the survey."

BUT NOT ALL IN GOOGLE OCEAN IS LOST IN DISCREDIT:

"Evon says:
Monday, 9th February 2009 at 10:11 pm

I think it’s bad to assume that all the lines on the topography data are a result of processing artifacts. While a great many of they may be, there are still a few that are actually being picked up on satellite imagery. For example, look at this site with Google Earth:
http://www.satellitediscoveries.com/discoveries/land_sea_coast_structures/florida/florida.html
If you look closely you can see the lines ARE being picked up on the topography and they ARE in the satellite image.

Also look at this anomaly:
http://www.googleearthanomalies.com/Anomalies/tabid/56/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/31/Topographic-Anomalies-NC-Area.aspx
More than a bit odd. Is it really there?"

[₣яэđĸĊ]

Scientists! ha!
"Scientists" are still insisting this is "merely a natural formation", too.


Have to remember the natural progression for all scientific discoveries.
From heresy,
to impossible,
to possible,
to self-explanatory, and intuitively obvious to the most casual observer. "Yeah... we knew that!" ;)

[Norval]

wow!
there are two other possibilities I have heard of.

which of all these is atlantis?
one in east med

other off sw coast of cuba reported by Lind M Howe

probably more as well
oh yeah, bimini road, and that structure off Japan coast

oh yeah the one S pacific, maybe Palau, I forget

ahhh yes, the underwater city between Ven. and Cuba with a road that goes from Ven. to Cuba, and ends up in Florida. It is also a PROHIBITED diving exploration area as well. Go figure.

Yep, find something on the bottom of the ocean and then turn it into a dump site to keep people out, , , hmmmm k.

[₣яэđĸĊ]

Oops!

Just noticed I failed to name that site.

For more pics, and text on the site, Google "Yonaguni" (http://www.google.com/search?site=&hl=en&q=yonaguni&btnG=Search)

[Bobbi]

When dealing with Atlantis, it is imperative that serious consideration be given to Plato's description. The city was circular in shape, alternating between water and land, rings of equal size around the center island, where a gold and silver shrine was erected. Therefore, I doubt you could attribute square features to Atlantis.

[Gary]

When dealing with Atlantis, it is imperative that serious consideration be given to Plato's description. The city was circular in shape, alternating between water and land, rings of equal size around the center island, where a gold and silver shrine was erected. Therefore, I doubt you could attribute square features to Atlantis.

OOH Bobbi????? Debunker!!!! How could you?????

[Gary]

Google dismisses 'Atlantis find'

However close you look, this is not the Lost City of Atlantis
The Lost City of Atlantis is still lost - despite hopes that Google Earth had located the fabled city on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

Observers noted what seemed to be a grid of streets and the outlines of a big city on the sea floor about 960km (600 miles) off the African coast.

Experts had said this was one of the possible sites of the city described by Plato, the Greek philosopher.

But Google said the lines represented sonar data collected from boats.

"It's true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an Ancient Roman villa," a Google statement said.

The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data

Google statement
"In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artefact of the data collection process. Bathymetric ( or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor," she added.

"The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans."

The story of Atlantis, a fabled utopia destroyed in ancient times, has captured the imagination of scholars ever since it was first described by the philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago.

He wrote of a land of fabulous wealth, advanced civilisation and natural beauty. Debate rages over where it might lie, if it existed at all: some say it is near Cuba, off the coast of Cornwall, near Gibraltar or in the middle of the Atlantic.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7903169.stm

[Heretic]

interesting theory on Atlantis I have heard is: Antarctica = Atlantis after a geo pole shift or crustal displacement. I tend to like this one because of all the old "oopart" maps that detail so much of the planet, yet miss Atlantis altogether...to me this is a decent explanation of this omission

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great site to look further into this is [URL="http://www.flem-ath.com/?page_id=6"]Flem-Ath.com - Atlantis in Antarctica (http://www.flem-ath.com/?page_id=6)

but then again...Antarctica didn't go sinking into the sea, but could this be an assumption couldn't it

my two cents

[Bobbi]

I honestly hadn't heard of that one, Heretic. However, I don't believe crustal displacement or geo pole shift? could have occurred in the time span covering Plato's observance of it from Europe to today. Different cartographers of the past would have placed it in all kinds of locations, and I'm not sure there are maps anywhere (could be wrong) that show a huge land mass in varying locations from the North Atlantic to the south pole.

[Heretic]

I have to agree with you there Bobbi

it certainly is an enigma as to where it went, no pole shift or crustal displacement stories are in the ancient record...just the flood

perhaps it is off planet *shrug*

theories abound