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Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?
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Posted on 02/10/2011 3:51:02 PM PST by djf
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To: DarrellZero
Can’t you come up with something stupider to say than that?
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:21:39 PM PST
by
djf
(Touch my junk and I'll break yur mug!!!)
To: SunkenCiv
PING, may be a repeat I think I have seen this one before.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:23:11 PM PST
by
stockpirate
(U-6 Total unemployed for January 2011 16.1 percent)
To: djf
Oh boy.
Right after I ran out of tinfoil, too.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:24:15 PM PST
by
Publius6961
("In 1964 the War on Poverty Began --- Poverty won.")
To: djf
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.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:56:34 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in.)
To: djf
Google, shmoogle. The shadow people told me it was there long before Google Ocean was a gleam in those dorks' eyes.
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posted on
02/10/2011 4:59:14 PM PST
by
Dahoser
(Separation of church and state? No, we need separation of media and state.)
To: Bernard Marx
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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posted on
02/10/2011 4:59:57 PM PST
by
Arlis
(- Virginia loghome/woods-dweller/Jesus lovin'/Bible-totin'/"gun-clinger")
To: Robert A. Cook, PE; stockpirate; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1010RD; 21twelve; ...
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:01:21 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: 75thOVI; aimhigh; Alice in Wonderland; AndrewC; aragorn; aristotleman; Avoiding_Sulla; BBell; ...
Thanks Robert A. Cook, PE and stockpirate for the pings.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:01:41 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: 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.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:05:22 PM PST
by
ElkGroveDan
(If every person were like Sarah Palin, this world would be a peaceful, beautiful world to live in.)
To: SunkenCiv
Can’t be Atlantis — it would have to be laid out in concentric circles.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:06:34 PM PST
by
BenLurkin
(This post is not a statement of fact. It is merely a personal opinion -- or humor -- or both)
To: SunkenCiv; secret garden
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.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:08:46 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
Thanks djf!
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:13:29 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: djf
People, people, people, Atlantis was flown away by the Ancients 10,000 years ago to the Pegasus Galaxy.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:13:29 PM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:14:50 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: djf
Atlantis in under Antarctica.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:14:50 PM PST
by
rintense
(The GOP elite & friends can pound sand.)
To: Robert A. Cook, PE
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:21:14 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: djf
Sure Enuff! That’d be it!
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:26:32 PM PST
by
cornfedcowboy
(Trust in God, but empty the clip.)
To: SunkenCiv
Pretty small for Atlantis. I'm still in the Indonesia is Atlantis crowd.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:27:04 PM PST
by
Palter
(If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it. ~ Mark Twain)
To: BenLurkin
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
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:29:46 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Arlis
“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.
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posted on
02/10/2011 5:29:46 PM PST
by
DrC
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