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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"
Intercept: 1123984 Channel: 59876
Subject: DP Base Control
Date: 01:00:32 7/11/2001 UTC
Summary: This is is an intercept from DP Base to control indicting the discovery of base 68 and imminent discovery of base 69. Partial decoded transcript follows. It is recommended that action be taken ASAP to prevent the movement from 69 to 70.
To Home Base
From Deep Piller 69
They are found our base 68. We must move our to base 70 or we will be overrun by newcomers. Deep portions of base 68 under attack by bright lights and something calling itself nnc or cnn. Server under attack by something called dot slash or slash dot or dot slash dot. Recommend move to 70 when feasible.
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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Right above NT Administrators, yet only a couple rungs below
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Disney marketing just reached new depths ...
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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.
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.
...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. :-)
You cannot apply a technological solution to a sociological problem. (Edwards' Law)
Jimmy Hoffa is buried in dem things der tuff guy
Want Root?
Geez, how many times is this story going to be posted?
Got Rhinos?
could this be the famous city Ry'leh where Cthulu lies dreaming?
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:
Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose that you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Give a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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.
--You will rephrase your request for me to go to hell. Goto statements are not acceptable programming constructs
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.
"Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master."
"Religious significance" may be what "television anthropologists" cite, but speaking as an Anthropologist of sorts, I'd have to say that it's not always the best explanation for things.
Also understand that pop culture can sometimes reinforce things like "religious significance" as an explanation. For example, witness the number of people running around these days with the hazy idea that in early human history, we all worshipped some universal "mother goddess" across all cultures -- very politically correct, and very popular... Seems to give people, especially women, a real warm fuzzy. The evidence people have heard/seen? So-called "fertility figurines" from any number of cultures as seen [of course] on TV documentaries. And of course, it's all nonsense.
This view is certainly not the accepted one within the academic community, for the most part, and certainly not in the universal sense. For all we know, these figurines are the Barbie Dolls of ancient children in one culture and wig-holders in another. But you won't sell product if you spend an hour saying "we don't know" on television.
What I'm getting at is that when you say "judging by the way most anthropologists and archaeologists classify..." it appears that you're mostly looking at the wrong anthropologists and archaeologists. Read the Anthropology journals instead -- the cable channels are in it for the ratings.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
"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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My sister-in-law studied anthro and archeology for about eight years, and she had an interesting story to tell along these lines a few weeks ago -- one of those things that she picked up in college... some of the students at her University had chosen to move into a primitive pseudo-Celtic settlement, in an attempt to study the effect of so-called primitive living on health.
When the research crew came in several months later to quietly observe the "Celts," they discovered a phenomena that had been found in excavations of true Celt villages -- shallow indentations in the floor just inside and to the sides of the doorways. This had always been attributed to unknown religious tradition -- the old standby of previously unexplained phenomena. When they asked one of the "Celts" what the significance was, assuming they were offering pits, or some such, the response rather shocked the researchers:
The "Celt" said, "Oh, that's nothing... every time it rains, the chickens come into the [hut], walk a little way out of the doorway, and flap their wings against the ground for a bit to knock the water off."
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Oh bother.
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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Looks can be deceiving. Or CAN they?
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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