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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Rebel on February 20, 2009, 07:55:30 AM
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(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/burnsk73/atlantis.jpg)
By VIRGINIA WHEELER
and RHODRI PHILLIPS
THIS is the amazing image which could show the fabled sunken city of Atlantis.
It shows a perfect rectangle the size of Wales lying on the bed of the Atlantic Ocean nearly 3½ miles down.
A host of criss-crossing lines, looking like a map of a vast metropolis, are enclosed by the boundary.
They seem too vast and organised to be caused naturally.
And last night the possibility of an extraordinary discovery had oceanographers and geophysicists captivated.
The site lies 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands — a location for Atlantis seemingly suggested by the ancient philosopher Plato.
He believed it was an island civilisation sunk by an earthquake and floods around 9,700BC — nearly 12,000 years ago.
The “grid†showed up on Google Ocean, a Google Earth extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys. ---MORE--- (http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece)
It's about 400 miles northwest (about 10 O'Clock) from La Palma (Canary Islands), 3 miles under the ocean's surface.
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The size of Wales? Wish they would have put a scale with the picture to better grasp the size.
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The size of Wales? Wish they would have put a scale with the picture to better grasp the size.
You don't have Google Earth? I thought everyone did.
Looks to be about 95 miles by 80 miles.
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Are those roads leading away from the main formations?
If so, leading to what, where?
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So, how soon does Obama send FEMA in with the campers and checks?
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So, how soon does Obama send FEMA in with the campers and checks?
:lmao:
KC
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La Palma is in a very active earthquake zone. That's the island that would create a giant tsunami that would hit the East coast of the US should part of it break off into the Atlantic. It makes sense that it COULD be there.
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So, how soon does Obama send FEMA in with the campers and checks?
:rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
H5!
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I don't "believe" it for one second. It's just a chance occurance.
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I don't "believe" it for one second. It's just a chance occurance.
Open up Google Earth and look at the big picture, I.e., about a range of 1000 miles. That's one helluva chance.
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I don't "believe" it for one second. It's just a chance occurance.
nature is known to dislike putting so many right angles in one place. it was either man made, or it's a fluke on a gigantic scale.
or maybe the whales were going condo during the real estate boom, and abandoned it when their capital dried up.
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Think about this, that giant suture in the middle of the Atlantic is where three plates (South American, North American, and African) come together. What if they collided and the one on the right (African) went under the other two? Wouldn't that cause some of the land masses on the plate, and closest to the occurrence, to lower in elevation?
(http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/lecture/FIGURE12.GIF)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates
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Where's Howard Hughes and the GloMar Explorer when you really need'em?
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So, how soon does Obama send FEMA in with the campers and checks?
H5!
*wipes tears*
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Think about this, that giant suture in the middle of the Atlantic is where three plates (South American, North American, and African) come together. What if they collided and the one on the right (African) went under the other two? Wouldn't that cause some of the land masses on the plate, and closest to the occurrence, to lower in elevation?
(http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/lecture/FIGURE12.GIF)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates
the whole thing sounds plausible. earthquakes caused by subduction are the most violent and land mass deforming types of earthquakes. a subduction earthquake in alaska caused the earth to rise 30 feet in some locations, and drop 10 feet in others, if I recall correctly.
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Think about this, that giant suture in the middle of the Atlantic is where three plates (South American, North American, and African) come together. What if they collided and the one on the right (African) went under the other two? Wouldn't that cause some of the land masses on the plate, and closest to the occurrence, to lower in elevation?
(http://smallcomets.physics.uiowa.edu/lecture/FIGURE12.GIF)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Plate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tectonic_plates
I'm going to need a little more concrete proof then Google Earth to prove this.
Zoom in as close as the image will allow you. Now scroll east to the Canary Islands or Spain. Tell me, can you pick out roads or rivers? No, those lines are about half a mile wide. Unless that entire area was crisscrossed with rivers the size of the Mississippi there is no way that could be a man made structure.
Honestly, zoomed in at that same level, you can't even see the Great Wall of China.
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So, how soon does Obama send FEMA in with the campers and checks?
They said Atlantis vanished 12,000 years ago. D*mned that BushCheneyHaliburtonRoveMcCokespoon is late again!
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The most interesting thing about it is that the grid lines don't appear to align with the striations in the rock formation, which makes it very hard to dismiss as some sort of weird geological formation. Pretty intriguing stuff!
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nature is known to dislike putting so many right angles in one place. it was either man made, or it's a fluke on a gigantic scale.
or maybe the whales were going condo during the real estate boom, and abandoned it when their capital dried up.
Isn't life on earth itself suppose to be the most remarkable of all random happenning? This image being random is nothing by comparison.
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They should send a ROV into that location to see what it really is. I think Atlantis is in what is present day Indonesia.
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(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/LostBadRobot/gilda2.jpg)
never mind. :uhsure:
However: "In this case, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea-floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea-floor...The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans."
more (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10168270-71.html)
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Isn't life on earth itself suppose to be the most remarkable of all random happenning? This image being random is nothing by comparison.
I thought we were created in His image. Isn't that the opposite of random?
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You will remember this one... (no one else will, but you will)
Yes, I remember it well. Donnie was a weird artist.
another ref in song:
"Atlantis will rise,
Sunset Blvd. will fall,
Where the beach use to be,
Won't be nothing at all"
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I thought we were created in His image. Isn't that the opposite of random?
As were the lines in the image.
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As were the lines in the image.
oh. I was assuming that the streets of atlantis were made by atlantans. :tongue:
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oh. I was assuming that the streets of atlantis were made by atlantans. :tongue:
Why would people from Georgia build streets that far out in the Atlantic?
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Why would people from Georgia build streets that far out in the Atlantic?
The devil told them to when he went down there.
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Why would people from Georgia build streets that far out in the Atlantic?
times were tough. they bussed, er boated them in for the construction.
(what else ya gonna call residents of atlantis? "atlantisans" sounds like you're missing something called your "atlanti")
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(http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h228/burnsk73/atlantis.jpg)
It's about 400 miles northwest (about 10 O'Clock) from La Palma (Canary Islands), 3 miles under the ocean's surface.
A while back, there were some odd formations found in the Bahamas. Some looked like roads, some like hand-carved structures. They were all eventually shown to be natural formations, however. There was also some "pyramid" or something found near Japan, I think, that has also been shown to be natural.
A photograph taken from hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth will not convince me. Find some man-made artifacts down there and I will be more open-minded. Find something written that conclusively says "This place is Atlantis" and I will be convinced.
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times were tough. they bussed, er boated them in for the construction.
(what else ya gonna call residents of atlantis? "atlantisans" sounds like you're missing something called your "atlanti")
I believe they're usually referred to as Atlantians. At least in everything I've ever read. :shucks:
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A while back, there were some odd formations found in the Bahamas. Some looked like roads, some like hand-carved structures. They were all eventually shown to be natural formations, however. There was also some "pyramid" or something found near Japan, I think, that has also been shown to be natural.
A photograph taken from hundreds of miles above the surface of the Earth will not convince me. Find some man-made artifacts down there and I will be more open-minded. Find something written that conclusively says "This place is Atlantis" and I will be convinced.
OTOH, an aerial photo of the DFW freeway system looks completely random and without order. Go figure.
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This is "something", but IMO most likely not man-made. A subduction zone cannot (as far as I know) drop 3 miles in a short period of time without causing some major, and I mean major, destruction on a scale that would leave vast ammounts of geological evidence. How would it then leave structures intact?
Something like that would be millions of times more powerful than any earthquake we've ever seen.
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The devil told them to when he went down there.
I thought he was just looking for a soul to steal.
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OTOH, an aerial photo of the DFW freeway system looks completely random and without order. Go figure.
Same goes for the modern approach to building cities and neighborhoods. Most of my town is the standard grid pattern for streets. The newer parts of town, however, are the bendy streets with random cul-de-sacs here and there. It drives me crazy. Imagine trying to find your way around an unfamiliar city with streets like that.
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never mind. :uhsure:
Wouldn't those lines be all over the ocean then?
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I thought he was just looking for a soul to steal.
No. That's why Sherman went to Georgia.... :fuelfire: :-)
Seriously, IF that is a city at the bottom of the ocean that's one honkingly huige city--75 miles or so across. It really looks interesting.
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If you lived there, you would be a "Hotlantan".
Hey, where's that picture you promised me?
*crickets chirping*
:-)
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Why would people from Georgia build streets that far out in the Atlantic?
C'mon, haven't your ever been to downtown Atlanta? They just want to get as far away from that as they can.
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nature is known to dislike putting so many right angles in one place. it was either man made, or it's a fluke on a gigantic scale.
or maybe the whales were going condo during the real estate boom, and abandoned it when their capital dried up.
:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:
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*crickets chirping*
:-)
Haha I just saw this! I was out lunching :) lol Funny.
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Wouldn't those lines be all over the ocean then?
hey, I hope it is atlantis. I wanna see them play baseball underwater. :-)
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hey, I hope it is atlantis. I wanna see them play baseball underwater. :-)
If they find any towers down there that look like penises, Disney built it. :-)
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I don't buy it...I think nature is capable of doing many things....
Check out these Crop Circles....perfect circles found around the world in large open fields, lots in the UK. Some say it's formed by aliens..but I say it's a natural occurence.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/35cln9g.jpg)
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I don't buy it...I think nature is capable of doing many things....
Check out these Crop Circles....perfect circles found around the world in large open fields, lots in the UK. Some say it's formed by aliens..but I say it's a natural occurence.
(http://i44.tinypic.com/35cln9g.jpg)
hahahahahahahahaha
^5!
KC
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Maybe crop circles and this new find are caused by magnetic fields deep beneath the earth's crust.
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Maybe crop circles and this new find are caused by magnetic fields deep beneath the earth's crust.
Not possible. If that were possible we would have already seen one of these;
(http://seanblanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/obamalogo.jpg)
:-)
KC
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From Wiki:
In 1991, two men from Southampton, England announced that they had conceived the idea as a prank at a pub near Winchester, Hampshire during an evening in 1976. Inspired by the 1966 Tully Saucer Nests,[18] Doug Bower and Dave Chorley made their crop circles using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools: using a four-foot-long plank attached to a rope, they easily created circles eight feet in diameter. The two men were able to make a 40-foot (12 m) circle in 15 minutes.
The pair became frustrated when their work did not receive significant publicity, so in 1981 they created a circle in Matterley Bowl, a natural amphitheatre just outside Winchester, Hampshire – an area surrounded by roads from which a clear view of the field is available to drivers passing by. Their designs were at first simple circles. When newspapers claimed that the circles could easily be explained by natural phenomena, Bower and Chorley made more complex patterns. A simple wire with a loop, hanging down from a cap – the loop positioned over one eye – could be used to focus on a landmark to aid in the creation of straight lines. Later designs of crop circles became increasingly complicated
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Since the height of the last ice age the seas have come up, about 350 vertical feet, so, 12,000 years, anything up to 300 ft. down COULD be man made. 15,000 ft down man's not the author. Can't say what it IS, burt feel comfortable it is not "ours".
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Since the height of the last ice age the seas have come up, about 350 vertical feet, so, 12,000 years, anything up to 300 ft. down COULD be man made. 15,000 ft down man's not the author. Can't say what it IS, burt feel comfortable it is not "ours".
Oh, it's not ours, alright .....but it might be "theirs". You know, healing white light focused thru crystals onto pictures of hands.....could happen.
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Not possible. If that were possible we would have already seen one of these;
(http://seanblanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/obamalogo.jpg)
:-)
KC
funniest.post.ever. :-) H5
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This is "something", but IMO most likely not man-made. A subduction zone cannot (as far as I know) drop 3 miles in a short period of time without causing some major, and I mean major, destruction on a scale that would leave vast am mounts of geological evidence. How would it then leave structures intact?
Something like that would be millions of times more powerful than any earthquake we've ever seen.
When Alaska had the BIG ONE, they had whole sections of the city drop better than 30 feet!
It is definitely within the realm of possibilities that the damn city could drop hundreds of feet, given the size of earthquake that supposedly did away with Atlantis.
If, this in fact, for real, then it is obviously man made structures. This is well whithin the realm of nature having caused it naturally. Ever watch the programs explaining how violent the planet can be? Especially in the past. I mean Pompei certainly comes to mind.
I think you underestimate mother nature!
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I am not sure, but I think I see Sponge Bob Square Pants in that picture.
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You will remember this one... (no one else will, but you will)
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leI7sfmipuI[/youtube]
BadCat, once again, you underestimate the crowd here. I, too, remember that song and the artist...... :hammer: :hammer: