Posted on 11/14/2004 6:57:47 PM PST by aculeus
Somebody call WHOI, get Ballard on the horn...
sonar scanning 50 miles southeast of Cyprus revealed man-made walls, one as long as 2 miles, and trenches at a depth of 1,640 yards.
"It is a miracle we found these walls as their location and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings," Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher."
"We found more than 60-70 points that are a perfect match with Plato's detailed description of the general layout of the acropolis hill of Atlantis (search). The match of the dimensions and the coordinates provided by our sonar with Plato's description are so accurate that, if this is not indeed the acropolis of Atlantis, then this is the world's greatest coincidence," he said.
Tests of that part of the seabed showed it had once been above sea level, he said.
"We cannot yet provide tangible proof in the form of bricks and mortar as the artifacts are still buried under several meters of sediment at a depth of 1,500 meters (1,640 yards), but the evidence is now irrefutable," he added.
Asked if the ruins could not be that of another city that sank beneath the waves, Sarmast said the remains match Plato's description of Atlantis so closely that they could not be anything else.
"If you compare it with Plato, you will be astonished," he said. "We hope that future expeditions will be able to uncover the sediment and bring back physical proof."
...and the Moon will be in the 7th House and Jupiter will align with Mars and peace will (?do something) to the planet...it is the 'Darning of the Agent of Saudi'ee-es'... (yuck, yuck)
Thats interesting. Go down, inflate a giant dome with air and let the excavators go to work. =o)
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If the temperate zones were where they are today--or even farther from the equator, the evidence has been largely buried or wiped out.
What we find today is mainly the remnants of equatorial civilizations, when those climates were more temperate and the remanants of the ice sheets were retreating, those remnants now are largely in desert or tropical climate regions because the climate changed when the ice sheets receeded.
Just my crackpot ideas...
If the temperate zones were where they are today--or even farther from the equator, the evidence has been largely buried or wiped out.
My God man, do you realize what you're saying? You're saying that the Earth, in its 4.5 billion year existence to date, might have warmed and cooled several times?
When we all now know, that its man rise that has caused the earth to warm. Unless of course you're right, then the enviro's will be able to point to Atlantis as being proof that man warmed up his climate before.... oh wait, we've had an ice age since then...
never mind...
We now return you to your regularly scheduled freep.
I think you are probably right but that would not fit with the conventional wisdom concerning human civilization. Sometimes today what scientists make up for in "intellect" they lack in imagination but eventually things will be dug up. I wouldn't be surprised to find that considerable "proof" of pre-ice age civilizations is not already in the coffers of many museums not that they have covered the proof up but that no one is really looking.
Why not instead just ask the crew of the soviet Submarine spotted there?
With something that terrain altering, you would have to find paleofeatures which were buried, preserving sites in sheltered topography. Not easy to do.
Then, too, few would want to stick their neck out before they found anything, and scattered finds will be buried, discarded, or ignored.
But then, conventional wisdom has been a long term impediment to scientific progress, and maybe it is just as well, on some counts.
What d'ya want to bet that San Francisco has already applied for a franchise?
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