Posted on 02/20/2009 9:49:04 AM PST by pissant
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...
It’s another country Pat Buchanan wants us to impose tariffs on. :P
No. It's an underwater doodle of Spongebob Squarepants.
How did you do that? It would not let me copy it.
Maybe 0 will send some of our $$ to stimulate their economy.
Well, he does live in a pineapple under the sea. . . .
Atlantis or not...I’ve never seen that kind of design occurring naturally. Very interesting.
King Neptune’s Zen garden?
Kinda hard to believe it ‘sunk’ 3.5 miles and isn’t obliterated completely.
That said, yep, needs further investigation. Don’t know if its Atlantis, but there is no denying if this is ‘legit’ it wasn’t caused by random nature.
Right.
It is obviously something, but not necessarily Atlantis. While I think it unlikely it was made up, it probably was another civilization with similar characteristics.
However, I do want to believe in a literal Atlantis. :)
Nevertheless, I can’t see this photo NOT being something man-made. What in nature could create all those perfect grid patterns?
Under the sea of course.
I right-clicked on the image and chose “Copy Image Location”, then pasted the url into my post. Another way to do it would be to right-click on the image, choose Properties and copy the Location URL at the top of the Element Properties box...
Bush’s fault.
Atlatians were giants, weren’t they? LOL
Probably more minor streets have been worn away if it is indeed a city.
I think we’ve found Poseidon’s spatula! Looks just like it. He lost it one day while cooking fish.
It’s a sonar grid.
When I right clicked all I got was a copywright warning. No options whatsoever to even see the ‘location’ or ‘properties’.
Any comment from Patrick Duffy?
HA!
Genesis 6 ping.
Bikini Bottom?
What browser are you using? I’m using Firefox.
Atlantis was supposed to be built around a central mountain in concentric circles. This looks like it might possibly be a ‘burb, though. Seems to be connected to another pattern with a possible pyramid 250 miles East. Atlantis was supposed to be 2500 (possibly 250 miles West of Egypt). I noticed the pattern a while back when reading about USS Block Island, which sank just to East of formation. Hard to believe nobody has noticed it yet.
Giant tubeworms?
Crystals
IE. Might explain it.
Right. That could be the problem.
Genesis 6 indeed. :-)
MM
Actually Atlantis is giant space ship right now in Galaxy Far Far Away..
LOL! Then this must be Bikini Bottom! :)
They are false canyons added by Professor David Sandwell, a geophysicist with the Scripps Institute of Oceanography to track bathymetric data usage. He did similar overlays to the Google database in other places in the ocean including large letters, other lattice work, etc. Sorry, guys... Keep looking.
It is the size as Wales, which is 8000 sq mi. That’s roughly 90x90 miles. There appears to be 8 to 10 ‘streets’ in both directions, making them roughly 10 miles apart.
The location is 3 and a half miles below the surface, which is about 19k feet, comparable to a low flying plane. Imagine that all of ‘fly-over’ country is covered with silt a foot or two thick. If you were flying at 19k feet, I imagine it would be hard to identify the local roads, but highways would be a much easier sight to pick out.
I submit that the visible lines are the equivilent of highways, and the local roads just aren’t distinguishable. It seems reasonable to me at least.
Okay, here’s the problem. There’s a Javascript script blocking your access. I always run Firefox with the NoScript extension; that extension won’t allow scripts to run unless I give the okay. I just gave the okay at the Mirror site, and now I’m getting that copyright notice, too. You need to either turn off Javascript in IE, or, better, get Firefox and install the NoScript extension. Then you can control at will when scripts can run and when they can’t.
So, how does one past pics on here?
So thats where that lost mother ship landed!
I have firefox as well. So I’ll test it out.
At the end of the article is this excerpt:
Google today claimed the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor.
But the internet giant said “blank spots” within the lines could not be explained.
A spokeswoman said: “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.”
I don't really understand what they're saying here. Are they saying that the grid is actually just an ARTIFACT of the sonar sounding process?
MM (in TX)
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Shoot. And to think Donovan was ready for a big comeback tour.
Wow, everything about Atlantis lore and they go with Patrick Duffy and his TV show from the 70’s to reference!!
Is this the face on Mars?
“highways would be a much easier sight to pick out”
Yes, but more likely walls. Deep thick highways weren’t in demand until recently
Only the most major thoroughfares would still be prominent after all this time. Smaller detail would have been covered by sediment long ago. What I'm curious about is whether the image represents a positive or "negative" view. If positive, the major gridlines look not like streets to me, but canals. They're sunken, not raised.
MM (in TX)
it’s more interesting than that imo
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