Comments on: OMG! Did Google Earth find Atlantis?

The we-know-everything tech giant is saying that what appears to be a street-grid pattern on the ocean floor is not the mythical lost city that some people swear is down there somewhere.

[Dylan_Wisor]

"but others just won't stop believin'."
Don't stop, believin'. Hold onto that feelin'.

[keonih]

GO TO VH1.COM AND PUT THOSE COMMENTS THERE THIS IS THE SIGHT OF INTELLIGENT Q'S NOT ADOLESCENT JIBBERISH..CHILD

[Dylan_Wisor]

The article's title includes "OMG!"

[SuperDave4422]

There's a site here- http://www.rantnation.com/wp/?p=286 that has the coordinates of two other underwater sites, one of them is 400 miles across. Interesting

[Kontracnet]

Two words for you: Howard Hughes.

[keonih]

AND TWO FOR YOU....quick,think!

[guilbep]

People, look at the informations in google earth, it's like 5000 metter under the sea.. global warming? I don't think so..

[Rita McKee]

It's the legendary Second Avenue subway in NYC...

[jpmccloud01]

There is a thought that Platos' Atlantis was based on a real place either that he had been to or heard great rumors about. Like most myths they are usually based on some fact that at second glance can be explained. While we know what was believed of the civilization, what we know not is it's possible location. What is also true of Atlantis, is that anytime some unknown city or town like structure is discovered with know outside record of it's placing or some unusual outside the box characteristics, the Atlantis label is given bye someone. Remember it is cool to think of such ideas and places. This is a unique site, and hopefully it will be and even better true story. let us see what happens

[keonih]

INTELLIGENT AND THOTFUL...THANK YOU

[lincoder]

"The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data." In my own opinion, what absolute ********... collecting data of the sea bed topography would not produce such artifacts, because from what I understand, the mapping process works by mapping the sea bed itself, using sonar. The course that the vehicle doing the mapping would take would therefore have negligible effect (disclaimer: I'm not a sea topography expert, I'm just guessing with my opinion!)

[rapier1]

According to people who are experts in the field you are wrong.

[viper396]

You are guessing while other people have facts. You are wrong.

[sherivan]

OK. I went to Google Earth and looked at Athens, a city that is roughly the contemporary of Atlantis (which is NOT in Georgia). Athens has a city center and an "outer" ring, with spokes running from the city center. This seems to be a typical city layout in early times. (Munich, Germany is also laid out in this way.) Within that "wheel" structure there is a grid pattern, probably more modern in origin.

So if this were Atlantis (I really hoped it might be!), there would most likely be that wheel-and-spokes layout rather than a grid visible upon the ocean's floor.

Oh, well. It was fun to imagine.

[keonih]

THANX, INSIGHTFUL AND INTELLIGENT, THESE HOPE IN RESEARCH AND SMART THOTFUL COMMENTS AS THESE

[rapier1]

Athens is not actually contemporary. Plato's Atlantis existed some several thousands of years prior to the founding of Athens. Of course, that's all just hooey. The likely source of the legend, the Minoan (not Mycenaean) outpost on Santorini was probably destroyed around 1600BC. The rise of cities in Attica are, at the earliest 700BC. So there is almost a 1000 year difference between the two. However, what's worth pointing out is that the defensive and urban planning needs of a civilization are pretty standard and you'll end up with similar solutions to the problem across unconnected population centers.

[whereisel]

That British aeronautical engineer should collect another undersea data of that area and compare both, if the pattern of streets from both data are still the same that means there's something actually down on that sea floor because the boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor were long gone.
I believe Atlantis.

[playaman1313]

Would a boat really take 90-degree turns like that and go over the same spot so much?

[keonih]

YES AND THATS HOW ROBERT BALLARD FOUND THE TITANIC

[coldstone77]

atlantis is like mitos of superman blue
http://supermanblue.blogspot.com

[scoates2482]

Actually, I've been living in North Africa for some time now and have actually SEEN Atlantis. There is a MASSIVE cover up by the world's governments. Not sure why, but Bigfoot told me that he'd check it out and get back to me...

[keonih]

BOOR

[ea58]

just like that photo of the giant snake in Borneo.. photoshopped.

This pattern is obviously from either a dredge or trawl transect survey conducted by scientists. I know am very familiar with this pattern in my line of work.

It is not from an ancient civilization or even from aliens.

[tremeki]

OK,not Atlantis? How about telling us what it is, so man made looking at the bottom of the ocean. What was there? No one curious enough to plan an exploration?

[TimeTraveler2000]

I cant wait for Google to map the inside of our hollow earth.

[msdreamgirl_1]

Sad it wasn't the lost city of Atlantis , The pattern reminds me of a spatula , should have been a shovel pattern to dig our way out of this bad economy . Keep striving forward Google Earth perhaps you will find Elvis or Peter Pan's ( Never Never Land ) ....

[keonih]

GO TO GOOGLE EARTH, PAN OUT ON ANY URBAN AREA AND YOU CAN DECIEPHER ANYTHING YOU LIKE, BUT THE THOT STILL REMAINS, WHAT IF IT IS WHAT IT COULD BE? SEND DOWN A SUB AND GET REAL CLOSE IS WHAT I SAY!!

[Sauvignon]

I went to take a look on Google Earth. The 'streets' are an average of 3km wide. Big streets.

[keonih]

ANCIENT ROMES MAIN STREETS WERE 4-6KM WIDE AND THE APPIAN WAY IS AT LEAST 8KM IN SOME SPORTS FOR MOVING ARMIES, GOODS AND HEAVY TRAFFIC, NOT UNCOMMON CONSIDERING WHAT WAS BEING MOVED AND FREQUENCY

[rapier1]

Actually, roman roads are on average 6M wide. Thats a bit of a difference. There may have been larger build outs but nothing on the order of kilometers. The roads were used to transport armies but armies don't march in battle formation.

[Fil0403]

I guess that's why almost everything from Google is "beta".

[vernal hastings]

its a field of seaweed cannibus tended by merpeople

[keonih]

GO BACK TO YOU NURSERY AND READ YOU COLOR BOOKS THE ADULTS ARE HAVINF AN INTEL DISCUSSION