UK tabloid The Sun has an article claiming that someone found Atlantis using Google Earth. As someone who’s personally interested in ancient mysteries, paranormal phenomena, and cryptozoology, I’m really happy that a tabloid has this story because it totally gives credence to the idea that Atlantis does, indeed, exist and should definitely silence all the naysayers.
Surely I jest. The evidence is compelling, however; a grid of crisscrossing lines the size of Wales buried three and a half miles underwater is nothing to sneeze at. Remember, mother nature doesn’t make straight lines. Intelligent beings make straight lines. These lines are apparently 620 miles west of Morocco near the Canary Islands.
Most accounts tend to place Atlantis somewhere in or near the Atlantic Ocean, with placement ranging from near the Bermuda Triangle (also see the Bimini Road) all the way to islands in the Mediterranean Sea near Greece and Italy.
To play devil’s advocate, this could be any number of ancient super cities (if you believe in that kind of stuff) – not necessarily Atlantis. Or it could be an anomaly, a hoax, or it might have a reasonable explanation. Speaking of reasonable explanations…
According to a Google spokesperson, the lines are actually sonar artifacts from a boat gathering data for Google Earth’s new ocean feature:
“What users are seeing is an artefact 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.”
Here’s a link to the spot on Google Maps. Now if we could just get one of those Street View cars made into a submarine capable of going three and a half miles deep, we’d be in business.
UPDATE: Google’s official response…
Is this Atlantis? [The Sun]
This is where Mike Arrington has been hanging out for the past month.
No, he’s been hiding inside Steve Ballmer’s ass.
Isn’t that a picture of Steve Balmer’s ass?
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As the writer of a project regarding Atlantis and Aliens surviving by interbreeding with local inhabitants of Earth i.e. Egypt during the early 60″s I am pleased that this subject still rears it head for discussion
uh…what?
I meant that I am half-alien, product of humans interbreeding with visiting aliens. I live with my psychiatrist on a space pod. Very comfy…
finally.
Clearly they used the same city planners on Planet Targ.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/45/Mercenary_pic_1.gif
C’mon, thats an underwater alien base!
The funny thing about this is that if Google wants, it can throw into its image database a pattern recognition robot. Why it doesn’t do it? Could be really profitable. Guess they can make money by discovering sunk ships for example. That of course, in addition to establishing joint ventures with those aliens down there.
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If you havn’t grow up yet, you should stay off websites for adults
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>The funny thing about this is that if Google wants,
> it can throw into its image database a pattern recognition robot.
Even more fun would be if Google would toss out some very subtle bad data just to see if people will come up with some goofy crazy theories :-)
Where is the sign indicating ‘You Are Here’? Now that would confirmation that the city of Atlantis had been found!
any interest in the atlantis comment
That’s not Atlantis. That’s the mythological Norse city of Thule!
ha wut
Google’s lying, they just want all of Atlantis’ secrets to themselves!
cool
Atlantis mythically had circular walls/fortifications.
the circular walls were several miles from the inner sanctum
They were also proponents of Web 2.0 “rounded corner” look :D
I thought that there were multiple concentric ring fortifications? Somebody claimed to have found soundings of similar structures on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. It is/was supposed to enormous, so several miles, may not mean much except in typical fortifications, the place of last resort is often not that large.
“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.”
so, we should see plenty of those artifacts, right?
Or does Google want to get to the loot first?
There are more. Like this really big area: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=31.522361,-24.477539&spn=4.293184,5.916138&z=8
just look west of Ireland
omg! ancient alien ploughed fields!
Actually, if you look to the west of Scotland and to the North of Ireland, you’ll notice two large “bulges” as I’d call them, next to the “ancient alien ploughed fields.” One of the bulges could be the island of Atlantis. But being that Atlantis supposedly failed to invade Athens, it’s probably somewhere between Greece, Egypt, and Rome, the most recordable ancient civilizations of the Mediterranean.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Atlantis&sll=35.227672,18.468018&sspn=1.646722,4.21875&ie=UTF8&t=h&rq=1&ll=35.101934,17.572632&spn=1.649269,4.21875&z=8
^look around there (or somewhere around Crete (near the Minoan civilization)) and I’m pretty sure you could find it.
The evil Atlantueans probably sunk their island somewhere around Portugal to kill the good atlantueans. The evil Atlanteuans wanted to control all beings not as sophistocated as them where as the good Atlantueans wanted to protect them. This left the non-sophistocated Atlantueans (Women & Children) to flee to Egypt where they rebuilt an empire. Some original Atlantuean records were taken and are now buried somewhere beneath the Sphinx at Giza.
It might drive your point a little better if you link to something besides the exact same point in question.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=55.028022,-13.359375&spn=2.739294,7.075195&z=7
Indeed. Here are some more, squares this time:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=31.334871,-19.37439&spn=3.063534,5.822754&z=8
Every so often Atlatis stories appear from genuine sources but are then scrapped . why ? They cant all be wrong. I have been studying this for over 45yrs. on and of . Serious study is fine until it seems you get near the truth
“Every so often Atlatis stories appear from genuine sources but are then scrapped . why ? They cant all be wrong”
Yes they can, just like all those stories about the Earth being flat, the Sun revolving around the Earth, etc. They all kept coming up for centuries, but alas, they were all completely and irrefutably wrong.
See how that works?
“They can’t all be wrong.”
Why not? A bunch of pieces of bad evidence don’t add up to make a big bit of good evidence.
Atlantis is real. It was a city that existed at least 10,000 years ago. It was created by an advac=nce civilization of people that after nearly being wiped out, they sunk the city to hide it from the Alien race that wanted to conquer them. The city was later moved to another galaxy(the city had the capability of flight) and then brought back here to Earth and exists today. It has been either resunk to the bottom of the ocean or cloaked invisible and is hidden on the ocean.
Agreed.
i absolutly agree
To quote Mulder, “the truth is out there”
Holy crap! The stupid! It hurts!
Here go read this:
http://www.ogleearth.com/2009/02/media_stupidity.html
the theories have been around for several thousand years before google. google has just raised the question again
Google denies “discovery”:
“In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artefact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or seafloor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the seafloor. 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.”
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/-atlantis-still-a-lost-city-says-google-535617
This is obviously a fake. Everyone knows that Atlantis is in the Pegasus galaxy and has been thoroughly explored by the USAF. Stupid government trying to create misdirection and lies.
Actually, as of January 9th, 2009 Atlantis was in San Francisco Bay with a wonderful view of the Golden Gate Bridge. http://www.gateworld.net/atlantis/s5/520.shtml
We’ll never be able to know where Atlantis is because the Atlantueans are moving their island in attempt to not be discovered.
P.S.: constantly.
This would have been an awesome Google April fools prank. But even better that it’s not! I love Atlantis stuff so this is neat.
Awesome! Has anyone heard about plans to start digging? Of course it could all be a hoax… Then the nerd in me would be sad… Interesting news none the less. Why would Google fake this though?
How did you learn to use that camera? You clearly didn’t read the user manual (or this article).
It’s the underwater GooglePlex
I Want To Believe… No wait, I don’t, because that would be stupid.
Everyone knows that in order to find Atlantis, you need John Locke to commit suicide, thus rotating the space-time continuum so the Oceanic 6 could return to the island.
LOL win.
Lost ftw. XD
There is no way a city could be 3.5 miles below the current sea level. NO WAY. Dream on dreamers… and laugh, you realists.
Although I’m still considering what to actually think of this, you do have to consider that Atlantis is quite old, and the “current sea level” means nothing, as the sea level may have been lower at the time.
Excellent! Now I just need to find my aluminum foil hat…
Mother nature does not make straight lines?
You need to look at geology textbook sometime. There are straight lines everywhere in nature! Not to mention from the vantage point that this google image is taken. Take a look at an aerial photo of the San Andreas Fault. It looks pretty damn straight. Maybe it is an Atlantian Highway??
Which of those squares is a parking lot?
It’s probably Google’s new offshore data center.
Hahaha, that was funny! :D
It would be very easy to check. If it is really the path that a boat traveled while taking readings, then it should be traceable. But if it can’t be traced without lifting your pencil or going over the same segment more than once, then it isn’t likely a boat path.
“Artefact” is not a misspelled, as implied by that pretentious little “sic”. It’s is a perfectly acceptable British spelling.
Now my sentences, on the other hand, could use some work.
I wasn’t aware of that — thanks for bringing it to my attention. I removed the [sic] thing. I don’t like using it, to be honest with you.
With such concentrated scanning effort and low res. – someone is surely looking for something down there!!!!!
btw – why can’t TC get their server clock right!!!!!!
interesting…but i don’t think that was true.
Let’s be honest. If there was an Atlantis, it probably was the New World. It was ‘lost’ because the civilizations who knew this information died and the knowledge wasn’t passed on in written form.
howya jeff, I’m from dublin…where are you from? yourself. give us a look at it. you love rafa bentiez! I’m a big 9
fail. The Guardian in the UK (you k,own those Old Media folks) reported exactly what this was hours ago. Im not gonna tell you what you are looking at. You News Hounds are gonna have to do our own research for yourself for a change.
oh and by the way where is sissy boy arrington?
A link please? A search on guardian.co.uk for ‘atlantis’ or ‘google’ truned up nothing relevant.
“remember Mother Nature doesn’t make straight lines”
Be careful with that or you would think this was someone’s house
Website link goes to Devil’s Postpile national monument.
I remember Lemuria!
More of these “lines”.
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=32.407792,-121.893311&spn=4.822286,6.130371&z=7
Atlantis: go to Oxnard and take a left…
They’re way off. I found Atlantis, you can tell by the dome
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=-74.813302,-138.521118&spn=0.677858,5.603027&z=8
Christopher Columbus obviously never needed to leave his living room, since Google Earth could have discovered America for him.
Atlantis is in Uranus.
After 12000 years Ill be surprised if anything found 3.5 miles under could be definitively identified as being from “atlantis”. If it is there awesome if they find anything at all!
Sonar doesn’t travel in straight lines either… it radiates.
But what is really disturbing is if you zoom in on some of those maps very closely you can see that Google has copyrighted a good portion of the planet.
In other news, what the heck is this:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=22.918595,-10.40843&spn=0.031306,0.03283&z=15
and this:
http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=21.111086,-11.402779&spn=0.253662,0.280838&z=12
The Earth is cool.
Thanks to Google for such useful tools. here are some of the G feature’s
Multiple Inboxes in Gmail
Manage several emails in one Gmail
Yeah, whatever. It’s the underwater crop circles that’ll really give Atlantis away.
Actually its underwater crop squares :-P
As far as I know, the streets in Atlantis was in circular orientation and not in grid.
why the crap would the city be circular in orientation? lines are easier to make, i personally cant draw a circle or a straight line and this is hundreds of years later….i think we have gotten more retarded over the years..or the streets WERE straight…..hmm….a good argument for both sides =P
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have any of you out there remember why Pres. Dwight d Eisenhower put in god we trust on all of our money. read it,it will change your mind about whats going on around us.
WAIT!!……………I THINK I SEE A STARBUCKS!!!
Well that is a little more impressive than using Google maps to find mountain bike trails!
Actually, this is a future image of Detroit.
According to the scale, some of the streets are around 100 miles (~160 kilometers) long… but I guess the Martians that build these streets thought it comfortable..
Is that really the lost city Antlantis!? Or just a mere creation from a naughty mind?!
Do you really think that some organized feature would sink three miles into the ocean and remain unaltered? For one thing, it’s not going to sink three miles in so short a time. And for another, it would be unrecognizable even if it did.
The bottom of the ocean? It must be shares of Citibank.
I myself am not a believer of Atlantis, but this is a very compelling story for those who are. This could very well sway with some more research and evidence.
http://techorigins.com/atlantis-seekers-given-thrill-by-google-maps/
mmmmmmm. maybe you should get a haircut you hippy…..mmmmmmmmmmah sloppy kiss
whats this got do do with atlantis