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Ireland Is Lost Island of Atlantis, Says Scientist
REUTERS ^
| 8/6/2004
| Kevin Smith
Posted on 08/06/2004 12:41:50 PM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Thinkin' Gal
They're just trying to throw us off the Antarctic trail.
;^)
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:44:44 PM PDT
by
AnnaZ
To: Red Badger
As an Irish physics professor always said to my class after he vomited calculus all over the chalkboard: "It's right there in fronna ya'! I doan know why ya' canna see it!"
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:44:55 PM PDT
by
randog
(What the....?!)
To: Red Badger; blam
I'd say that I'm 99% certain that Atlantis, if one existed, was the island of Thera where a rich and advanced Minoan trading hub was blasted to bits by a volcano that not only left a big hole where their city once was but probably led to the end of the Minoan civilization. It fits a whole lot better than any of the other suggestions that I've seen.
To: Question_Assumptions
Bah! Humbug! Everyone with two brain cells to rub together knows it was near Bimini! Or was that Bikini? Or maybe Baloney?
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:50:56 PM PDT
by
dljordan
To: All
Ireland is lost island of Atlantis
Yeah, and I'm the freakin' tooth fairy
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:52:12 PM PDT
by
cwiz24
To: Red Badger
But Atlantis, you see,
sank. Ireland is still there.
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:52:31 PM PDT
by
William Terrell
(Individuals can exist without government but government can't exist without individuals.)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:52:41 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty and establish property rights)
To: Question_Assumptions
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:53:01 PM PDT
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Red Badger; All
Wrong! Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy now...
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:53:41 PM PDT
by
KevinDavis
(Let the meek inherit the Earth, the rest of us will explore the stars!)
To: Question_Assumptions
If Atlantis was in Ireland, then did it sink into an ocean of whiskey?......
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:54:06 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The FOURTH ESTATE is the FIFTH COLUMN!.....)
To: blam
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:56:56 PM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
To: Red Badger
Dirk Pitt's already beat 'em!
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:57:31 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(I'm more frustrated than a legless Ethiopian watching a doughnut roll down a hill.)
To: Red Badger
Let me see if I understand: Ireland is Atlantis, and the idea that Atlantis sank, comes from Dogger Bank, which is a shoal, northeast of England, which sank 6000 years ago.
Wouldn't that make Dogger Bank Atlantis?
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posted on
08/06/2004 12:59:51 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(The Fourth Estate is a Fifth Column)
To: Red Badger
Atlantis was actually Ireland Cool!
I'm part Atlantian!
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posted on
08/06/2004 1:02:05 PM PDT
by
MamaTexan
(Our government is NOT a 'democracy')
To: MamaTexan
My ancestry is Irish. Can get some reparations out of this?
To: Red Badger
Give me another Stout & Mild will ya Erin.
Now what's ... hic ... that about your finding Atlantis? ... hic ...
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posted on
08/06/2004 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
G.Mason
(A war mongering, red white and blue, military industrial complex, Al Qaeda incinerating American.)
To: Doctor Stochastic
(I don't advocate the material on this site -- but it's a pretty picture based on the Classical sources...)
To: Red Badger
"Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean"
Plato never said that it was in the Atlantic, he said that it was "before the Pillars of Hercules" that people assume means beyond the Strait of Gibraltar. However, others think that the Pillars of Hercules refers to another location, possibly closer to Greece.
"Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide, and widest across the middle. They both have a central plain surrounded by mountains."
Problem is that Ireland would have been larger that Atlantis at the time Atlantis was around. It is the same size now due to erosion of the coastline.
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posted on
08/06/2004 1:20:11 PM PDT
by
looscnnn
("Live free or die; death is not the worst of evils" Gen. John Stark 1809)
To: frankenMonkey
My ancestry is Irish. Can get some reparations out of this?No. On the other hand, you'll never again qualify for flood insurance!
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posted on
08/06/2004 1:21:35 PM PDT
by
Tallguy
(If Clinton did a good job stopping the Millenium Bomber, I've got 2 Towers in NYC to sell you...)
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