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Atlantis Seekers Given Thrill by Google Ocean
RcK writes "Numerous articles are springing up regarding a feature found using the new Google Ocean, which some claim could be the location of Atlantis. While this is obviously early, and probably has the same credibility levels as previous claims of finding the mythical city, the detected anomaly is quite convincingly linear, is apparently the size of Wales and sits near where Plato hypothesized the city to be located." Google has stated that this is an issue with the way their ocean mapping software is working, but clearly that is a cover up while Google execs try to buy the real estate. I just hope they bring back Elvis next.
Google just got a DMCA takedown notice from Aquaman.
Finally, I'm no longer limited to just searching the continents for Waldo. Now, I can also search the oceans.
I swear I'll find him, and when I do, he better look out!
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Where's the street view guy? That's what we really need.
Parent is correct. Who knows more about the size of Europe than a German?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Great, now I can set the coordinates into my TomTom and drive my sub there.
Yes, the truly enlightened know it was a veiled reference to R'Lyeh.
Plato was just protecting his audience from the inevitable madness that seethes from that name!
"MIT betrayed all of its basic principles."
Oh, I've got a plan.
In fact, I've got the one-size-fits-all latex suit, love swing (NSFW)http://www.stockroom.com/The-Love-Swing-P1361.aspx, handcuffs and broom handle ready for when I catch him!
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1. How can the Athenians have fought a war against another civilization at a time when all good archaeology and paleontology tells us humans didn't yet live in developed cities or fight wars?
Because all good archaeology might be wrong, and temple-based civilization, with the possibilities of undiscovered cities, may be 11,000 years old.
2. How can Plato's source have known about Atlantis? It's not mentioned in any of the preserved archives of the ancient Egyptians.
Err... we have a very small fraction of material from ancient Egypt, thanks to the destruction of the great library at Alexandria. Hell, we know things about PLATO that are only attested to in secondary sources. There's no reason Atlantis couldn't be the same.
3. How can knowledge of this so-called war and apocalypse have survived until ca. 350 BCE when the Greeks didn't have reliable information about their own history going back before 1000 BCE? Hint: if you say "but the Iliad..." I am going to beat you repeatedly with a copy of the collected works of Milman Parry.
It is far easier for me to find out about the War of the Roses or the Hundred Years War than it is to find out about what happened in my hometown 100 years ago. Obviously a huge apocalyptic war is going to leave far more footprints in history than anything that happened in the Greek Dark Age, which was after all pretty goddamned black, to the extent that writing itself was lost.
Ok, if you've got this far I'll give you the REAL reason why we should take Plato seriously on Atlantis: Plato ALSO tells us that originally human beings had two halves and were four-legged, joined at the back. They split in two to create the humans we have today, and the natural sexual affinities that are observed in humans are the result of us seeking our other half. Those of us who should have been joined to another of different sex are heterosexuals, and those who should have been joined to another of the same sex are homosexuals.
Since this is obviously true, the story of Atlantis must be true as well. I mean, Plato wouldn't just make stuff up for the sake of a good story, would he?
Oh, yeah: "The Iliad." (ducks)
Blasphemy is a human right. Blasphemophobia kills.
C'mon man. Where's your critical thinking? The answer is obvious. The Atlantians were obviously GIANTS.
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I hate 90 degree angles too. Maybe we should form a support group.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Where's "-1, Sick" when we need it?
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