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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+51No, Atlantis is in another galaxy.
- hhOwArdrOarKk, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43I would stay away from there. That's where Godzilla lives.
- outbreakofevil, on 10/12/2007, -3/+38Actually, I find things like this very interesting. Dugg for sure.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Well, there's certainly no shortage of them:
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/236.html
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=296
An alleged city on 1500 meters depth off teh coast of Cyprus (can't find link)
and many many more.
So far none of them have panned out.
There are of course a number of sunken cities, especially in the mediterranean, but common for all these fantastic ones is 1) they're too old and 2) the proposed architecture is too grand. If the structures are so big they'd be difficult to build with present technology, yet are 5000+ years old and found at great depth in the sea, odds are they're really just somewhat exotic geology.
I've seen photos from this particular site, and to me it looks like cracked basalt, but what do I know. However, it's important to remember that appearances can be deceiving - e.g. this:
http://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Northern%20Ireland/first/Giants%20Causeway%201.JPG
is not man-made. - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13under the sea
under the sea
there'll be no acusations, just freindly crustations
under the seaaaa - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13oh my science!
- DeusMachinae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12We all know they were constructed by Godzilla.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11at least it didn't end with a profit
- pixelmixer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Thatd be interesting. but if you want to get technical i think it was Plato who originally described it, and i believe he said it was near the atlantic ocean, a bit far from japan... but hey, who knows.. it did make its way to another galaxy.
- terafnord, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8PH'NGLUI MGLW'NAFH CTHULHU R'LYEH WAGN'NAGL FHTAGN.
- Satanael, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10"If the monuments were indeed built by humankind, it would require some dramatic revisions to the accepted chronological history of humanity."
Aliens. - Jist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I heard that there was no real evidence that this structure was in any way man made or modified. It is still uncertain, but they (the History Channel) said it shifted and cracked into what it currently looks like due to natural causes. Interesting none the less.....Digg it.
- NumberFour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Actully they already did part of a documentary of this on the History Channel before.
- Hoovooloo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Which one?
Seriously, I love the books, but every one follows the EXACT SAME PLOT:
1.Dirk works on some underwater research project
2.Someone dies
3.The two are found to be connected
4.MASSIVE GLOBAL CONSPIRACY UNCOVERED!
5.???
6.Victory (and not a single good guy dead) - poppa, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Hyrule Castle? Or Mushroom Kingdom?
- SundayBrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5By the end of the 21st century a new civilization will emerge in the americas, one where underwear is worn on the outside of the pants. No one will ever know why.
- thcobbs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@Software2
Only cause they ran away! It was in Antarctica. - eShinn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Wow. Apparently Caislean and I are the only one that watches Discovery Channel? heh.
About asian structures: They showed how the rock actually natrually breaks off like that. They didn't talk (in this article) about the sequence of holes that they'd found...and the crustation that makes them :p
About Atlantis: I saw that one too. What I don't understand is how there can be critics about the find when the metal alloy used to reinforce the stone structures (bone-shaped braces inside the bricks) require a temperature to fuse the two metals hadn't been 're'-discovered until the late 1800's yet the structures are dated WAY before that (including the illustrations of elephants which hadn't existed in South America for thousands of years). I didn't know South America ever even HAD elephants in the wild. - hellyes, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12Whaaaaat?!?! I thought the earth was only 6,000 years old!!
/sarcasm - Negyxo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://www.icr.org/article/3109/
"A perceptive person will recognize that both of these points [on evolution] are nothing more than story telling. "
I lol'd. - Caislean, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8First, most of this video has actually been debunked. There was a history or discovery show about this not long ago that examined natural processes that create such formations as this one.
Second, they are fairly certain that Atlantis was actually the Minoan civilization. Our tale of it comes from Egyptian hieroglyphics. Egyptians used a different name for the civilization which referred to a Mediterranean sea power, which at the time would have been the Minoans. - BigManOnCampus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Meh, keep studying it... get back to the world when you have something concrete that proves it was made by people. I'm willing to believe that it could have been manmade and was just washed clean of tools and other peripherals by typhoons or currents. That would be interesting. This is one of those nice thought-provoking things that make you think that perhaps a worldwide developed civilization has happened more than once on this planet, and we've already destroyed ourselves once.
- OUChevelleSS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wind Waker ftw
- ivanjs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming"
Yeah, any Lovecraft fan will tell you it's R'lyeh.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh - jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The pseudo-scientific word you were searching for was "antediluvian."
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@ron2
That website makes me laugh - RichesToRags, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I saw a documentary on this a few years ago, and geology experts showed the underlying rock was no more than natural erosion. The article doesn't show the rock cliffs above sea level in that same area, which clearly shows natural erosion that coincendentally eroded with geometric lines.
If there was an ancient civilization, there would have been tools and pottery of some sort lying all around, and noone was found. - idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dirk got to get paid
- D4r7h3v1l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Waaaaay below the ocean,
wheeeeeere I want to be,
she may be! - fearofcorners, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Azur
It can't be totally discounted. We know almost nothing of what happened much earlier than 5000 BCE. However, you are quite right and I consider it unlikely that these are manmade. Interesting, nonetheless. - Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Obviously just cooled rocks that then split, kind of a horizontal version of Devil's Tower except with a cubic mineral instead of hexagonal.
- inigomntoya, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4They? Who? Link?
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Hyrule definitely.
- Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -2/+45000 years before the pyramids which are 5500 years old, so over 10,000 years (and who knows how much of that time was under water). Take into account Japan's crazy currents should allow enough time to move said pottery and tools, or am I wrong?
- johnny23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2When I looked at the pictures on the page, the first thing that came to mind was: rock quarry. My Grandparents lived near one, the formations look similar.
- drfranktm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's a very real possibility that some relatively advanced civilization has lived and died before our own recorded history and that we simply haven't discovered the traces of their passage yet (or that we haven't put together the pieces of the puzzle). I find it sad that so many would dismiss the logical possibility of it before even taking a look at the facts (or lack of).
If scientists say that these structures probably aren't man-made for this or that reason, I'll believe them as I am no geologist. But I think we should keep an open mind when it comes to our (maybe not-so-special) place in the universe. Some came before and some will come after us, for sure. The universe is HUGE!!! Chances are we aren't its most marvelous inhabitant. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Conclusive my butt. Call me when they've found a *single object* that's definitely, not just possibly, man made.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2If the giant's causeway can be a naturally occurring phenomenon, it seems to me pyramid-shaped rocks would be a lot simpler to naturally produce.
- masterkenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Maybe we can send Hiro back and let us know what he finds out?
- Phyltre, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3What makes me credit this stonework as opposed to others is what looks like drainage holes in certain areas of the rock--clean-sided rectangular holes, roughly the size of modern-day air vents, which go through the rock at diagonals and terminate under or at the bottom sides of the structure. I just can't imagine that being formed naturally without breaking up the rest of the stone. But I'm no geologist!
- Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my favorite was "Treasure" who knew that the library of alexandria made its way to the rio grande
- CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5There are probably lots of structures and things that were created before recorded history that we will never know of.
- jackhole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would like to propose a different theory.
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28315 - sfslim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ditto on R'lyeh.
- erkokite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anybody ever read Underworld by Graham Hancock? He mentions both this, and the ruins off the coast of India.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Edit: I meant to say these better fit my first category (archaeology) for reasons given.
- themastersb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ shinynew
I read it as that as well. - Elec, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It was called "Atlantis Found" and it blew goats.
- marinist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There are plenty of archaeological sites that are unquestionably man-made, yet lack any tool artifacts or an understanding of the technique of their construction. The pyramids at Gizeh, Cuzco masonry, and Stonehenge apply here. However, asbsence of the fact proves nothing either way. All options need to be explored which best explain the geometry, despite the little problem of being underwater.
- thecheatah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0They should check to see if they have evidence of wiis or ps3s!!!
May be they came out with it 1000's of years before us! -
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