Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?

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[djf]

A truly spectacular find. This will probably re-write history as we know it. See link for details.

[djf]

Can’t you come up with something stupider to say than that?

[stockpirate]

PING, may be a repeat I think I have seen this one before.

[Publius6961]

Oh boy.
Right after I ran out of tinfoil, too.

[ElkGroveDan]

I went in and measured it. The criss-crossing squares are about 100 miles by 80 miles in total. That's pretty darn freaking huge for an ancient city, for any city. The average city block is 10 miles by 5 miles. Besides the darn thing is on the ocean FLOOR. It is part of the ocean floor - 17,000 feet down.

It's an interesting looking formation, but it ain't no city.

[Dahoser]

Google, shmoogle. The shadow people told me it was there long before Google Ocean was a gleam in those dorks' eyes.

[Arlis]

Even with today’s GPS guidance systems, it is highly unlikely that these lines were from boat mapping....they are about 100 miles long, perfectly parallel and perpendicular for the most part.

Over the extensive time it would take to map lines of this length, repetitiously, due to vagueuries of weather, winds, currents, etc. would prohibit the precision of these lines. IMHO.

I wholly agree that they are Atlantis is highly unlikely due to the depth and relationship with the consistency with surrounding depth.

What they are, God only knows......

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[ElkGroveDan]

I went in and measured it. The criss-crossing squares are about 100 miles by 80 miles in total. That's pretty darn freaking huge for an ancient city, for any city. The average city block is 10 miles by 5 miles. Besides the darn thing is on the ocean FLOOR. It is part of the ocean floor - 17,000 feet down.

It's an interesting looking formation, but it ain't no city.

Here is a screen capture of one measurement. Click on it for full res.

[BenLurkin]

Can’t be Atlantis — it would have to be laid out in concentric circles.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Yeppers, she was found with no one onboard.

Meal on the table, anchor up (stowed as would be expected for regular sailing.) Sail set. Ship’s boat missing.

No sign of violence or attack - no sign of a pirate attack for example.

No log entries or signs that the captain had left the ship to another ship for safety, or if the ship were sinking and the crew had abandoned her deliberately.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks djf!

[mad_as_he$$]

People, people, people, Atlantis was flown away by the Ancients 10,000 years ago to the Pegasus Galaxy.

[SunkenCiv]

The earlier topics:

• Google Explains Watery Mystery of 'Atlantis' [2/25/2009]
• Is this Atlantis? [2/20/2009]
• Breaking! Atlantis discovered on Google Earth (well, maybe) (Atlantis coverup?)
  
  

  This thread has been pulled.
  

  Okay

[rintense]

Atlantis in under Antarctica.

[SunkenCiv]

Alien abduction.

[cornfedcowboy]

Sure Enuff! That’d be it!

[Palter]

Pretty small for Atlantis. I'm still in the Indonesia is Atlantis crowd.

[SunkenCiv]

Can't be Atlantis -- it would have to be laid out in concentric circles.

:') Yeah, that's the problem. The frequent approach to Plato's tale is to change the location, change the era, and (usually) change the size. This find would merely require changing some of the fluffier details, and leave it in the right place and size. :')

Plato gave the dimensions of the plain on which the city stood as 3,000 stades by 2,000 stades, and a stade is about an eighth of a mile, hence 375 miles by 250 miles. That's not the size of the city itself, merely the size of the plain on which it supposedly stood.blockquote>Atlantis discovered on Google Earth:

Google

[DrC]

“Over the extensive time it would take to map lines of this length, repetitiously, due to vagueuries of weather, winds, currents, etc. would prohibit the precision of these lines. IMHO.”

As well, if they were boat lines, what would explain their showing up only in this small section of the ocean? If they were boat lines, one would expect them to appear repeatedly all over the oceans.