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Atlantis Found. Again.
Tufriast writes "Paul McCartney and Mythic eat your heart out! BBC News has an interesting revelation regarding the lost city of Atlantis: "American researchers claim to have found convincing evidence that locates the site of the lost kingdom of Atlantis off the coast of Cyprus."" Hey, here's an idea: The idea of an almost mythical lost civilization is common thread throughout all old human societies - much like, say, really big Floods. Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
In today's USA political climate, any such suggestion smacks of rabid anti-bible terrorism. Better watch them words, pardner!
Infuriate left and right
Does this mean Disney will now claim rights to all of the artifacts, and will release toys packaged with Happy Meals.
Well I for one welcome our new alien over--I'm sorry, I'm reading from the wrong story. Well I for one welcome our new lost civilization overlords...
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Where have you been hidding in a hole or something? I have been watching a elite team explore this place every friday night on the sci-fi channel, get with the program why don't you!
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They've got it all wrong. Atlantis can only be reached via the stargate using an 8 digit address!
Tsk, don't these people know anything?
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I want to know why everyone assumes the name of this discovery is Atlantis. How can we know the name of an ancient civilization we discover before we discover it?
Anyway, wouldn't Mediterranis be far more appropriate, given its location?
Amazing. All those speaking on topics they know so very little about. Oh well. I guess that's your right to do so.
Of course if some other ideology ruled the earth you wouldn't have the Internet or Slashdot.
Something to think about, from a 43 year old Marine Corps Vet.
Worst. Lost. Civilization. Evar.
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rediculous.
That looks just like the face on Mars so it must be true!
You'd think BBC would be above sensationalizing pseudo-science, wouldn't you?
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-Marilyn Manson
There are dreamtime stories about Atlantis but in keeping with Australian naming conventions they call it Kookanuggiebiddlybong and because Australians get everything upside down its tells the story of a city rising from the depths and making a sea disappear.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
2) The site is located 1600 meters (about 1 mile) below the surface.
3) The biblical flood he attributes to/identifies as the Flooding of the Med when the Atlantic broke through the mountain wall at Gibraltar. Geology indicates that while such an event did take place, it was 6 million years ago, not at the end of the Ice Age.
Therefore, it is more likley that the site is an old flooded out UFO base from the time period of the flood out, in my opinion. It would have been logical to have such bases in the Med basin, as there would have been spectacular salt flats in bottom of the Med basin, making an easy to find landmark from space, and a useful landing strip. Of course, any structures there have been flooded out very long ago.
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Atlanta was more than just a delta hub. And the caffeine can really speed up the evolutionary process. Wooo doggies!
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I know exactly where it is. It's at the intersection of I-75, I-85 and I-20. I go there all the time. What's the big deal?
What?
Oh AtlantIS.
Sorry.
Everybody knows that Atlantis exists in another galaxy and was recently found by a multi-national Stargate team who found that much of the city was still operational and solar powered.
I think they even started making a documentary series about this.
In related news, the stories of voyagers traveling back in time and interacting with the present-day citizens of Earth, being a common threat in all five of the Star Trek series, as well as one of the movies, is proof that the events of Star Trek will all become real historical facts.
Upstairs Dog, Downstairs People.
Getting your history lessons from someone who can't even spell their own domain name properly is not a good idea...
Ah well, one can dream...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Springfield . . .
Is there a fine for returning an overdue civilization? At even five cents a day, that's going to be pretty fierce!
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Of which someone should have pointed out that the United Kingdom is the nation, not Scotland.
I wouldn't say that too loudly in certain parts of Glasgow if I were you...
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Yeah, pretty soon we'll be having people reporting where Atlantis isn't:
"Crypto-archeologists today reported that they found no sign of Atlantis off the coast of North Dakota. This is a striking new development in Atlantis Studies, which have previously shown that Atlantis once covered 98.7% of the Earth's surface area."
--Tom
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
The Minoans were probably the real proto-Geeks.
I saw it last night down at the 7-11. It was wearing an Elvis costume.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I hear that in the director's cut, David and Goliath shoot at the same time
English is easier said than done.
After all, ignorance breeds fear and intolerance.
I think you misspelled religion there...
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Antediluvian. I would suggest that antidiluvian civilizations are the ones that survived the flood :)
Atlantis is supposed to be a highly advanced civilization. Global warming is predicted to expose a good third of Antarctica. Nostradamus said we'll have a thousand years of peace before another huge war. Note that almost nobody had heard of Atlantis when Plato spoke of it, yet as we get closer to the epicenter of the destruction of a civilization (and perhaps a continent) more and more people have heard of it. Could it be that Atlantis hasn't been found yet because it's 1000 years in the future?
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>(cf. Current Science 86(9):1256-60 (10 May 2004))
What's that? A citation? The grandparent would consider you part of this "academic mafia/freemason conspiracy!"