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iammichael writes "Scientists scouring the Atlantic Ocean have found huge towers of stone (the tallest ever) that they've named the "The Lost City" since they are located on a seafloor mountain named Atlantis Massif. Read about it on Yahoo news or CNN"
You know it's been a long night when /. headlines start looking even stranger than usual.
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Subject: DP Base Control
Date: 01:00:32 7/11/2001 UTC
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Chances are, in my opinion, America _was_ atlantis- plato's map of the capital of atlantis was still similar to the centre of Aztlan at the time the Spanish found it, at least a millenium after the events Plato chronicled were supposed to have taken place. I think conventional wisdom has kept quiet the extent of european-american contact in early history - And there's the roman remains recently found in the gulf, suggesting at least a little early european-american contact.
Interestingly, Irish legend places one of the parent races of the Irish people, coming from the west, with advanced technology (for the time - including a prosthetic hand???) - though it must be pointed out that anyone coming by sea from africa or the mediterranean will also finally approach Ireland from the south-west. But Irish legend places the kingdom of the immortals, Tir na nOg, to the west, across the ocean. In fact, every sea-going european race extant at or a bit before plato's time talks about land to the far west of europe....
Thermophiles, the only inhabitants of the Lost City, include archaea, a recently discovered class of organisms which scientists believe are among the most primitive on earth.
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It should be "The Previously Lost, But Recently Found City."
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Judging by the way most anthropologists and archaeologists classify anything they can't understand as "Religious Significance", I'd say you have a very fine grasp of the subject.
In a few thousand years' time, I expect most of the freebie merchandise handed out at computer exhibitions will be classified as being of "Religious Significance". All hail the mighty Dust Puppy and praise to the Novelty Mobile Phone Holder.
One wonders what anthropologists and archaeologists would make of an entirely agnostic or aetheist society. Speaking as an agnostic myself, I really irks me that long after my death, people will be slapping "Religious Significance" labels over my property.
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Basically, the source of electrical power for the people of Atlantis was a ruby-like gem housed in a tower that emitted some laser-like beam of energy. This energy was the source of all of the Atlantian technology.
While this gem was the source of all of their power, it was also the reason for their eventual destruction due to some kind of over use or abuse.
Regardless, this is not a fantasy that I've made up, this is actually what Edgar Cayce had told in one of his many readings on Atlantis. I don't have a URL for more information, but there are books on Edgar Cayce and his readings on Atlantis if you're interested. You may also want to check out the book "The Sleeping Prophet". This man was no joke (b. late 1800's, d. 1942?)
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I didn't know that the Spanish ever went to Aztlan. As far as I know, it is a legendary place supposed to be somewhere in US California, maybe LA.
And if you mean Tenochtitlan, a city built on a lake, with canals and all that, it was built when the Aztecs arrived to the lake, somewhen in the XII or XIII century. Well after Plato.
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And they're not merely a 2200-year-old city in shallow water like the one recently-discovered off the coast of Egypt -- these structures are 800 meters deep, and must be far older.
If this discovery is verified, it'll be huge.
Read about it on a mainstream site (MSNBC -- quick, grab it before it disappears from Google's cache!)
or get more detail from this fringe site.
That that is is that that that that is not is not.
You're thinking of that other ark, the ark of the covenant, in which they kept the stone tablets on which the ten commandments were carved.
I see even classic Slashdot is now pretty much unusable on dial up anymore.
Huge? No it will be buried and forgotten like all the other evidence of an advanced prehistoric civilization. The so-called "scientists" that make up archaeology's status quo really don't want to rewrite their textbooks...
Give any engineer a tour of the great pyramids and show him the gigantic interior granite slabs fitted together with incredible precision and ask him if he could duplicate it with today's technology given an unlimited budget.
Or take him to Macchu Pichu and ask him the same question.
You've probably seen the videos of black smokers giving off what looks like soot on the ocean floor. Well, sometimes they get carried across the ocean floor with the plate, but instead of getting carried into the subduction zone, they get scraped off onto shore. You can find the remains of one if these in the back country of Santa Barbara, CA.
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> Chances are, in my opinion, America _was_ atlantis
I think Crete and Santorini are a considerably better bet if you're looking for the origins of the Atlantis myth.
They're closer to where the myth grew up, they had a flourishing civilisation at the right time and it probably was wiped out by natural disaster (volcanic explosion on Santorini, leading to a tidal wave hitting Crete). You can visit these places and look at rather ancient ruins, and wonder if these are the places which inspired the story.
Putting the Spanish arrival in America "at least a millenium" later is an underestimate, two to three millenia might be a bit closer.
> when everyone just saw the Atlantis movie . . .
You were disappointed?
Imagine thier disappointment when they realized that NOBODY saw the Atlantis movie!
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The Yahoo article in amazingly deceptive if you only read the first few paragraphs. The stone towers are actually natually formed volcanic vents. Its just that because they are so huge and are found in "Atlantis" the scientist thought it would be cute to call this formation of rocks the "Lost City". It is NOT Atlantis.
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...because they knew from first-hand experience that going to the land to the east meant you got killed by migrating Mongols, going to the lands in the south meant you got killed by expanding Greeks, Romans, Persians, or Africans, and going to the lands in the north meant you froze to death or drowned. "Hey, there's nothing to the west that we can see; it's gotta be better than what we know right now, let's invent legends about it."
Okay, so I would've made a lousy anthropologist. :-)
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Speaking of that movie, am I the only one that gets irritated by the McDonald's commercial? "I speak Atlantian".. Not after I hit her in the face with a brick. ;)
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So the pillars of society in Atlantis are venting.
What else is new?
Give me my freedom, and I'll take care of my own security, thank you.
True. But people that have followed the discovery of oceanic ridges, tetonic plates, and the hydrothermal vents with their odd life-forms that have been in the common press off and on for the last twenty odd years would NOT have assumed right off that this was mention of the discovery of the city of Alantis....
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Geez, how many times is this story going to be posted?
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I agree that is seems strange not to release any images; however, considering the validity of Zelitsky's last find, maybe her team deserves the benefit of the doubt?
True about the pacific, I was thinking more of the proported cyclopean size of the structures in Ry'leh when I made the reference.
could this be the famous city Ry'leh where Cthulu lies dreaming?
The Gulf Stream and the prevailing winds both flow/blow East. Sure, you might end up landing in Africa instead of Ireland, but if you've just sailed across the Atlantic, following the coastline North shouldn't be too intimidating.
this is not about a civilization.
the phrase "lost city" seems more interesting than this oceanographic discovery of the decade.
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The archaea (or archaebacteria) are an interesting group of organism. They look like bacteria, but are more closely related to plants and animals than to bacteria, even though they have the circular DNA of bacteria rather than the straight DNA of animals/plants. The can also survive in a remarkable range of hostile environments. Two interesting pages on them are:
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So that explains why I was in the theater!
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everyone should know this is just another disney promotion.
Well, of course it is. It was one of the top 3 stories on ABCNews.com today. And, as many people know, ABCNews is owned by the Disney corporation.
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You notice that the writeup doesn't mention these are naturally-occuring pillars? You make it sound like they're man-made Greek columns or something...
Formally, it is "The City Formerly Known As Lost", but they're having trouble coming up with one of those Prince symbols.
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Actually, the ancients considered everything west over the Atlantic as literally the end of the world. It would be akin to us looking in the space.
It's small wonder why legends about superior people from the west of the Atlantic are so prevalent in European mythology.
i guess the mods thought it was silly for you to point out the obvious
Read CNN's review of the information (which has a pic BTW) for a better understanding of what the discovery is really about (hydrothermal vent communities...Specifically..A whole new type!!)
Yahoo?, Why didn't you just stick to search engines??
LFS. Have you built your system today?
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Nice of Yahoo and CNN to finally pick it up.
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"It's a brand new kind of hydrothermal system,"
Actually, it's probably been happening for hundreds of thousands of years....
The pictures are kind of neat though, and it's alway interesting to see what kinds of new life have turned up here on earth. (they mentioned they had reccently found some one-celled organisms living near the vents) It's hard to imagine sometimes, that even with all the technology like satellite imaging looking down on the earth, there are still places that are mysteries.
Looking at the description, they sound kinda like underwater hotsprings or geysers (like the ones out in Yellowstone) and they build a kind of dome or tower because of a build up of the minerals that are expunged from the opening. One would think that these would be larger and hotter being closer to earth's core, but apparently that's not the case.
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She also refers to ' limitless, rolling, white sand plains '. Forgetting that 'rolling' suggests something quite different from 'plains', how does she tell what color the sand plains are from a sonar image ? And why haven't these rolling plains been disturbed by detritus/currents/tides ? Why hasn't the color of these plains been distorted by algae/corals/debris ?
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The Santorini/Crete is actually one of the most likely answers to the stories of Atlantis, both theese Islands once had some of the most important ports in the mediterraninan (how on earth is that spelled?). The Islands were very rich, and they had some of the most up-to-date technology of that time.
Unfortunately Santorini blew up, and killed all of the Islands inhbitants. I guess that all the sailors that were going to Santorini got kind of surprised when they realised that Santorini had dissapeared (well almost) and killed of most of Crete as well..
Santorini might also be responsible for drowning the Egyptian army that tried to catch Moses as well. Not that I am to interrested in religion, though.
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It was at http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010514/lf/cuba_t reasure_dc_1.html
Researchers found it off of the coast of cuba while looking for sunken treasure. National Geographic plans an expedition. Art Bell covered it fairly well when it happened.
Hopefully someone will be able to find the link.
Now we just need to find the Perspex Pillar and the Golden Bail of Prosperity and the Wikkit Gate shall be restored!
Just be thankful that Ted Turner, Jane Fonda, that guy who invented Coke, and a magician got out before it sank.
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Wouldn't it make more sense to call it "The Found City?"
It's a bit pessimistic to start right off assuming we're going to lose it.
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