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M$1 February 20, 2009 06:31 PM

Is this really a picture of the Lost city of Atlantis?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,497288,00.html
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chazzyfen chazzyfen
 
 February 21, 2009 11:42 PM
I don't think so. Given, how large the ocean floor is, there are bound to be some very strange things found on it. If we look at every square mile of the ocean, there is a good probability that we will find some things that look a lot like ancient buildings and things from a distance. So, if there is no more evidence than the picture, than it probably isn't Atlantis. But, if the only way to be sure is for them to send down a submersible and examine it.


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cyber34 cyber34
 
February 20, 2009 06:34 PM
Well, we don't really know until we go down there and look.

I'm hoping it is, since it'd be really cool if we finally found Atlantis, and uncover what really happened and what it was (if it ever existed even). Hopefully it's not some weird artifact of taking the pictures.

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tboz tboz
 
February 20, 2009 06:39 PM
Well the article seems to explain away the theory that it might be saying that the lines were made by the path the boat that took the sonar were traveling in. But I think our best bet at this point in finding the lost city which Plato clearly spoke about as a literal factual place is beginning with something like Google Earth.....something to think about is that more than half of Earth has been unexplored, mostly underwater, there have been a few interesting discoveries in recent years, one of the most promising is the underwater features off the coast of India that appear to be an ancient city.

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albanian albanian
 
February 20, 2009 06:53 PM
The ruins of ancient cities that I have visited were tiny by modern standards. This one is the size of Wales, apparently. Google says it's an artifact of the sonar ships going back and forth but that sounds strange since the lines include perpendicular ones.
Meanwhile, although the Sun has an excellent reputation for news about how attractive young ladies look without their tops, they are not so good at regular news and science. And the Mail which had the counter story is even worse. Dueling tabloids. I suppose if there is anything to this a real paper will investigate.

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hcp56 hcp56
 
February 20, 2009 06:58 PM
No. The accompanying article clearly indicates that it is an artifact of the data collection process.

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