Google Debunks Maps Atlantis Myth

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 24, 2009 @11:57AM from the carry-on-speculating dept.

prxi writes "Recently speculation spread that Atlantis may have been located on Google Ocean. Now Google has posted a blog entry, written by two oceanographers, explaining what exactly caused the strange markings off the coast of Africa. The authors also note that we have better maps of the surface of Mars than we do of our own oceans, and go into detail on what would be required to obtain a fine-grained map of the ocean floor. Apparently it's only 200 ship years of work, or around the cost of a modern stadium, give or take."

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Re:So ... by errxn · 2009-02-25 03:55 · Score: 0, Troll

In other words, New York and Indy could have provided the desired maps of our oceans with the taxpayer money they are pissing away.
Congratulations, you bit on the Google troll. It's the one thing I just can't stand about Google...they have to politicize everything, however subtly.

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