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Atlantis: Discovered at Last?
Henry G. writes "The BBC is reporting that recent satellite pictures may show the location of the fabled city of Atlantis, as described by Plato. It is in Southern Spain, though, and not on an island as is commonly believed. Here's an image of the concentric rings over the alleged area." This story has gotten a lot of submissions; it's worth noting that it's also shown up off Cyprus, or near Cuba, or is Crete, or... It is worth noting that that Ubar was found this way.
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...where's Patrick Duffy?
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Hey I see it now, its a pony! No wait....its a mule....OH I see it now, it's a city. How silly of me!
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They're in the bottom picture.
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Here's an image of the concentric rings over the alleged area.
Atlantis? Is that a new filter for the Gimp or something?Is it just me, or does the satellite photo, the last picture in the BBC article, look like Mel Gibson with his nose pirched on his fist?
...you can clearly see Noah's Ark perched about three-quarters of the way up.
And the skeleton of a dove.
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He means ones that weren't drawn in.
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Why could he not have just whipped out what ever passed for hand held GPS at the time and provided map co-ordinates ? He might have been a decent philosopher but he was a crap travel writer.
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Ach! You must be looking at the wrong picture. The lower one's taken with the Circular Atlantis Polarizer(tm) on.
It's a sailship!
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Thats the lost city of R'lyeh...
Am I the only one who can't see the rings in that photo?
You have to look at them in the n-ray spectrum.
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... the location of an allegorical tale to teach us the evils of materialism?
Welcome our new Atlantian overlords.
i'm skeptic. if this is atlantis, then where is the poets, the farmers, the magicians, and the other so-called gods of our legends? though, gods they were! and as the elders of our time choose to remain blind, let us ...hail atlantis! but isn't it supposed to be 'down below the ocean: where i want to be' (repeat ad nauseum)?
I wish that I was a catfish.
I can't make out rings nor rectangles in that
picture. But I clearly see a big cache of WMD in the lower left corner.
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I can see the face of Bin Laden
Let me guess: you're in the US Army and you are just trying to start this rumor in the hopes that you get relocated out of Iraq to the beautiful beaches of Spain, right?
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Screeny?!? What, are you 10? It's called a screenshot.
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No its definatly it this time. They even found an old sign on the sea-bed that read...
;o)
"Welcome to Atlantis, Birthplace of Ariel (AKA The little mermaid.
Please drive carefully, flooding possible"
No. This is not Atlansis at all. That's a simple targeting area for ancient spacemen to practice. To drop SPace Marines, or may be some bombs. Be a sceptic. There was not Atlantis at all.
... this is just a PR stunt by the Sci Fi Channel to hype their new series, Stargate: Atlantis.
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You just have to look harder...
Once you find try to find..
* Waldo
* The wizard
* A scroll
* Two mermaids pleasuring each other
* Poseidon's driving license
* Plato's lost map
* Sebastian the crab
* Cowboy Neal's bathing suit
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"It is worth noting that Ubar was found this way."
Please note that the F is silent.
Ob. Mallrats quote:
I'll tell you what you need is a fatty, boombatty blunt! And then I guarantee you'll see a sailboat, an ocean and maybe even some of them big-tittied mermaids doing some of that lesbian shit!
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Was Plato there? How does he know about Atlantis? If there was an Atlantean civilization during his era, why is his writings the first? You would think some king would have had a writing about it. And the final question: Do we really want to attempt to resurrect a civilization that Posiden (sp?) decided to sink? I mean come on - the dudes a God for crying out loud. We've seen the previews for "the day after tomorrow" now I know most of us don't want to see the movie - do we really want to see it enacted LIVE? Anyone? Anyone? (ok that was a few more questions) :)
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Try this picture instead, I think you'll be able to make out a large ring.
Are you trying to start a circular argument?
I've worked with digital imaging since the mid 80's, done photo enhancement for the police, and have had functioning eyeballs since 1971... I don't see the rings. I think the larger story is the fact that the beach looks like a big strip of bacon. Besides, aside from Patrick Duffy, who gives a shit about Atlantis? Are we looking to outsource some jobs there or bomb them?
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Oh, yeah, a sailboat!
If it's actually Atlantis, then my faith in Stargate will be shaken.
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nope... can't happen.
I mean if he can pick out Atlantis from that one picture.. he should be able to find every hiding spot in Iraq..
The signs of it are EVERYWHERE, if you know what to look for!
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With your C analogy (IAAACP - I am also a C programmer) we'd look at lots of snippets of code identify differences between them, date them (except there is no scientific method for dating code) and hypothesise as to what changes and why.
Archaeology is not a science, certainly not an 'arcane science'. It's a discipline which employs (amongst other things) scientific techniques, such as C-14 dating.
Tsk. Tsk. Sure you can. Similar to the Carbon 14 dating you mention, you could date computer code as it switches from C to C++.
Here, however, is the real kicker. Look at the paragraph above. The first recorded legitimate use of the words "computer code" and "dating" in the same sentence.
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Is it really that hard to use some HTML and make that an actual link, fucktard?
Ohh...poor AC doesn't know how to get there if you don't make a nice linky-linky for him.
http://xkcd.com/386/
.. it is not in the Atlantic, it is not under water, but other than that it is Atlantis just like Plato described it?
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Will you please leave the name of my home country alone? Tanks! ;-)
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Your microtreatise on programmatic archeology intrigues me. Perhaps one can cut through swaths of code, identifying deprecated practices and using historic information to put a date on these, in much the same way you can track the history of a parcel of land by following the statigraphy. After all, with a wide enough sample, they've even been able to track revisions of the Judeo-christian bible, and identitfy through context, voice and historical record the authors of different passages.
I think I'll use this argument next time I have to explain to my manager why I'm so lazy with source control.
Oh, and my wife majored in Archeology, with a minor in theatre...so she can act like she found something! Ba zing!
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Let me guess: you're in the US Army and you are just trying to start this rumor in the hopes that you get relocated out of Iraq to the beautiful beaches of Spain, right?
Those would be the beautiful beaches of Andalusia, infidel swine!
Here's a recent and very striking example of fitting data to preconceived notions: zepplin backwards (flash link)... As with all of these things, the trick is that you're shown the message while listening to it, and you tend to make it fit. It's even more convincing after a few listens -- it really sounds like, "There was a little toolshed where he made us suffer, sad Satan." Almost poetic.
Hi, this is Satan. Yeah, you're wrong on this one. It's real. Oh, yeah, and I totally tortured Zepp in a toolshed for a while, but it's HARDLY a little toolshed. It's like 16 x 25. I'm still pissed at Jimmy for that one. I mean, I might not have Led Zeppelin-size money, but I do okay for myself. That "little" thing was just insulting. So to get revenge, I made Page do the Death Wish soundtrack and Plant ended up fronting the HoneyDrippers. That'll show 'em who's boss. One more crack and they're backing Christina Aquilera.
I'm not normally an irrational zealous dickhead, but I figure "When in Rome..."