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February 24, 2009

Atlantis Not Found on Google Earth Afterall

For about a week, the blogosphere has been abuzz over the idea that Google Earth's new ocean mapping had led to the discovery of the lost (and mythical) city of Atlantis. It's this pattern found off the west coast of Africa:

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Unfortunately, it's just a bunch of ship tracks. It's terribly un-glamorous, but completely necessary for those pesky exports and imports.

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Posted by Nathania Johnson on February 24, 2009 10:17 AM

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Oh well! Was a good story though...

matt mcgowan  February 24, 2009 12:32 PM

Well it was a big deal over nothing. Did you think that something like that would of been unnoticed all this time ?

sellerator  February 27, 2009 4:43 AM

If these lines are supposed to be lines created by the path of a ships radar then why can i not find anything similar on google earth anywhere else? It seems to me since other previously known sites such as a ancient roman villa and a completely pristine forest in mozambique have been found using the program it would be wise to look into the phenomenon.Look at these lines supposedly created by the path of a ships radar it dose not follow any ships path ive ever seen.it is also smack dab right where plato says outside the pillars of hercules(straight of gibraltar). It is not the shape he describes but it is consistnt with the idea of it being very large-the greatest city ever seen on the face of the earth. It seems to me that any atlantis seekers should look into this further, and not let it get slipped under the rug. Google has to many reasons not to want to credit something like this. I think they slammed this one with a no way to hastily, especialy when this is not a consistently accuring phenomenon on the google earth program. To me this alone makes google's claim of it being the path of a ships radar less credible than the fact that this just may be atlantis. It follows the desciption of the location as described by plato, other sites have been located on the program, also homer's troy was real itwas found right in the location he describes sure his story was fiction based on history but the city existed and has been found. Why can't plato's atlantis also exist in the place he describes and be found also? This whole thing needs another light shined upon it in my opinion.

rick m poznanski  February 28, 2009 10:35 PM

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