A Question about Atlantis?
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I think Atlantis was supposed to have been located in the Atlantic Ocean. It was supposed to have been destroyed and some people believe that one of the citys that was found under the Atlantic was Atlantis. There is no proof that it existed, I think there is only one recording that it existed. The people that have found the citys can't prove whether it was Atlantis or some other city. \nI think that they still show stuff on it on the discovery channel, or maybe go to discoverychannel.com, if there is such a site.
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... Something about triangles, right?\n\nThey had an empire, I think...  or was it just a kingdom?  Or do they elect a president... Mubarak?  Does that sound familiar?  Were they muslims or pagans???  There was this guy Tut and he had a mummy...  Steve Martin says he was born in Arizona but he got a home in Babylonia and was a boy king and had more money than Midas...  I'm not sure if all of that is correct.  Midas had a lot of money.  There's also something... maybe... about a huge dam and reservior on the Nile... or up the Nile... something like that.  Egypt fought Israel after the God of Israel dumped a bunch of plagues on them, but that was after Egypt apparently enslaved a bunch of jews to build some fancy cemetaries.  Maybe the jews are still pissed off about that.  There was Cleopatra, who was aparently the first Ms. Universe and apparently she dug rich Italian guys.  Then there are those hieroglyphics... it would be more fun to make pictures of words than write phonetically, but I guess it makes it easier to learn the language if it's phonetic.  SO they made the Rosetta stone so they could talk to other people.  REM says "Egypt was troubled by the horrible asp.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."  MAybe they hired an exterminator because that was past-tense...  They had some big library on the coast...  but it wasn't a public library?  But then somebody screwed it all up.  They failed to correct Alexander's delusion that he was a god.  I guess you'll do anything to get creepy thugs like that off your back though and he DID march way off to India next, so I guess it worked for a while.\n\nBasically, they did a bunch of stuff.  Built a few wonders of the world.  You know, not much.
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Locations as far-flung as Antarctica, Indonesia and the Caribbean have been proposed as the true site of Atlantis. The submerged island of Spartel near the Strait of Gibraltar would coincide with some elements of Plato's account, matching both the location and the date of submersion given in the Critias. In the area of the Black Sea at least three locations have been proposed: Bosporus, Sinop and Ancomah (a legendary place near Trabzon). The nearby Sea of Azov was proposed as another site in 2003. Various islands or island groups in the Atlantic were also identified as possible locations, notably the Azores (Mid-Atlantic islands which are a territory of Portugal), and several Caribbean islands. In Northern Europe, Finland (by Finnish pseudohistorian Ior Bock), Sweden (by Olof Rudbeck in "Atland", 1672-1702), Ireland, and the North Sea have been proposed (Swedish geographer Ulf Erlingsson combines the North Sea and Ireland in a comprehensive hypothesis). Areas in the Pacific and Indian Ocean have also been proposed including Indonesia, Malaysia or both (i.e. Sundaland) and stories of a lost continent off India named "Kumari Kandam" have drawn parallels to Atlantis. Even Cuba has been suggested. The Canary Islands have also been identified as a possible location, west of the Straits of Gibraltar but in close proximity to the Mediterranean Sea. Some believe that Atlantis stretched from the tip of Spain to Central America.\n\nAtlantis is the subject of a modern legend about an advanced island civilization that was destroyed or lost. Stories about Atlantis are first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, in which characters say it was destroyed by an earthquake or a tsunami about 9,000 years before the time in which Plato wrote. The story claims Atlantis was somewhere outside the Pillars of Hercules (also known as the Strait of Gibraltar). According to Plato, the story originated with Egyptian priests.\n\nMost people acknowledge that the stories are fictions made up to serve the purposes of Plato's dialogs. But others take them as if they were serious historical accounts. There have been dozens — perhaps hundreds — of locations proposed for the classical Atlantis. Some are more-or-less serious attempts at legitimate scholarly or archaeological works; others have been made by psychic or other pseudoscientific means. As continental drift became better understood and accepted during the 1950's, most "Lost Continent" theories of Atlantis have been proven conclusively false.\n\nSome cultures have "lost civilization" myths. In some cases, it has been argued that there is a common historical event or real "lost civilization" at the root of some or all of these legends, but there is considerable disagreement between the competing hypotheses. It may be that these legends have arisen from many different historical events, and are only just now being associated by modern theorizers because of their similarity. It may also be that these legends are entirely fictional, but for some reason have arisen and remained popular in many different cultures at different times.\n\nOf course there is always the possibility that there is no real location for Atlantis simply because Plato intended the story as an allegory, similar to his story of the cave.\n\nMany theories of Atlantis center around the Mediterranean. In part because of the Greek myth which is the first written record of Atlantis, but it was also a superhighway of transport in ancient times, allowing for trade and cultural exchange between emergent peoples of the region. The roots of Western civilization began in the Mesopotamia in nearby modern day Iraq. Some of the more popular theories include the Minoan civilization on Crete, the island of Sardinia as well as some other river valley civilizations.\n\nAndalucia is a region in modern day southern Spain and host to the lost city of Tartessos, which disappeared
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watching too much stargate atlantis
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I think it's not fair to compare them just yet, I mean think about it SG-1 has had ten years to develop its characters and build plots, whereas Atlantis has only has three years. Most people would say SG-1 because it has been running longer and therefore we have grown more attached to the characters because we have seen them go through so much including death and a bunch of other things, we have also witnessed the changes among the characters and the development of their personalities. Atlantis on the other hand is new and has only begun to develop the dynamics between all of the characters, as well as work on new and interesting plots (which next season they will have a new enemy to contend with) and so it may take some time before we can completely relate to the characters of Atlantis like we do SG-1.\n\nOh, and by the way Joshua B, it's spelled Wraith :)
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Here is a link to the SG-1 season finale show with a description of what happens.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelot_%28Stargate_SG-1%29\n\n\nAnd for Stargate Atlantis here is the last episode\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allies_%28Stargate_Atlantis%29
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It is probably still somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.\nIt has never been recovered because it has never been found.\nI personally have never seen it but I do not know if someone\nhas seen Atlantis or not.
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Over 11,000 years ago there existed an island nation located in the middle of the Atlantic ocean populated by a noble and powerful race. The people of this land possessed great wealth thanks to the natural resources found throughout their island. The island was a center for trade and commerce. The rulers of this land held sway over the people and land of their own island and well into Europe and Africa.\n\nThis was the island of Atlantis.\n\nAtlantis was the domain of Poseidon, god of the sea. When Poseidon fell in love with a mortal woman, Cleito, he created a dwelling at the top of a hill near the middle of the island and surrounded the dwelling with rings of water and land to protect her.\n\nCleito gave birth to five sets of twin boys who became the first rulers of Atlantis. The island was divided among the brothers with the eldest, Atlas, first King of Atlantis, being given control over the central hill and surrounding areas.\n\nAt the top of the central hill, a temple was built to honor Poseidon which housed a giant gold statue of Poseidon riding a chariot pulled by winged horses. It was here that the rulers of Atlantis would come to discuss laws, pass judgments, and pay tribute to Poseidon..\n\nTo facilitate travel and trade, a water canal was cut through of the rings of land and water running south for 5.5 miles (~9 km) to the sea.\n\nThe city of Atlantis sat just outside the outer ring of water and spread across the plain covering a circle of 11 miles (1.7 km). This was a densely populated area where the majority of the population lived.\n\nBeyond the city lay a fertile plain 330 miles (530 km) long and 110 miles (190 km) wide surrounded by another canal used to collect water from the rivers and streams of the mountains. The climate was such that two harvests were possible each year. One in the winter fed by the rains and one in the summer fed by irrigation from the canal.\n\nSurrounding the plain to the north were mountains which soared to the skies. Villages, lakes, rivers, and meadows dotted the mountains.\n\nBesides the harvests, the island provided all kinds of herbs, fruits, and nuts. An abundance of animals, including elephants, roamed the island.\n\nFor generations the Atlanteans lived simple, virtuous lives. But slowly they began to change. Greed and power began to corrupt them. When Zeus saw the immorality of the Atlanteans he gathered the other gods to determine a suitable punishment.\n\nSoon, in one violent surge it was gone. The island of Atlantis, its people, and its memory were swallowed by the sea.\n\n\nim greek what can i say lol
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The answer is 'F'. Tides are the by-product of a power generation device used by the lost city of Atlantis. This power device is so efficient, the excess energy it creates is expelled outside of the Atlantis force field into the ocean, creating the tides that we have here. One Atlantian was sent forth into the mainlands in the guise of a noted scientist and created the theory that the moon causes these tides so people would not search for its true source and corrupt the Utopian society that Atlantis enjoys.\n\nI've decided to reveal all since they expelled me!\n\n=D
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Can I please see these photographs as well?\n\nI viewed your source, and the pre-Colombian gold artifacts do look like airplanes, and the heiroglyphics do look like helicopters and a blimp. I didn't see a source for a jet fighter on rock (you probably meant gold) or pictures of ancient astronauts, or a picture of the space station on a rock in Persopolis. If you have a chance and remember where you saw them, please add the links. I don't know why the gold sculptures look so much like airplanes; we know that airplanes didn't exist back then so do you think the sculptor had some sort of vision? The picture of the heiroglyphics did not elaborate on them at all... at this point, with the information you gave me, it seems to be a very long stretch. Very long.
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Atlantis is supposed to be the paradigm of human civilization because of its advanced technology and utopian society. As someone has noted before, Plato was the first to mention atlantis in his - I think - Critias and Timaeus. the advanced tech part sounds true (as in true to Plato's original representation), but it is not a utopia. In fact, plato slams it, since his beloved Republic is perfect, and Atlantis its opposite; the island kingdom is supposed to be brutish and riddled with disorder.
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A legendary triangle of Ocean lies between 3 countries upon the Atlantic ocean. The Cities are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. Ships, people and aeroplanes have been reported mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth whilst travelling inside this triangle. It soon acquired the name "Devils Triangle" owing to peoples superstitions that the devil was at play on this stretch of ocean and gobbling up weary and lost travellers with great delight, but what actually was at play inside this triangle of rough water, is it really the devil?, or perhaps aliens are using this spot as their home base on earth. Maybe it really does contain a mystical vortex that sucks people down into a third dimension.\n\nThe myth of the mysterious triangle was first begun in an Associated Press dispatch of September 16, 1950. Reporter E.V. W. Jones wrote of "mysterious disappearances" of ships and planes between the Florida coast and Bermuda. Two years after this article appeared Fate magazine ran an article by George X. Sand about a "series of strange marine disappearances, each leaving no trace whatever, that have taken place in the past few years" in a "watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico".\n\nIt was not long before ideas and suggestions started forming about this piece of ocean. M.K. Jessup wrote about the disappearances and gave ideas about alien intelligences being behind them in the book "The Case for the UFO. The view was also echoed by Donald E. Kyhoe who is noted for his "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" of 1955. Frank Edwards (Stranger Than Science) agreed with the theory of aliens having a local hangout in the triangle as well. Finally a man by the name of Vincent H. Gaddis came up with the phrase "Bermuda Triangle".\n\nVincent Gaddis wrote an article in February 1964's edition of Argosy and incorporated the story later in his book "Invisible Horizons" titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle". And there was the birth of the now world famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.\n\nThroughout the years it has featured in many many articles, books, television series and movies and always portrayed as a very real and mysterious thing, but anyone out there with any sense surely will ask themselves " how in this day and age could boats, planes and other travellers just go mysteriously missing in a certain piece of water?" "wouldn't an aeroplane full of international travellers be afraid to travel over this part of the ocean"....Well let me tell you I've always asked the same questions myself and I personally have come to the conclusion that the entire thing is nothing more than a myth hyped up over the years by wrong facts and silly overexaggerated stories told down through the generations of people willing to listen to any kind of mysterious story with a unknown edge to it.
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Dear Allen T,\n I hear by subjugate your reality and implant my own.\n\nDid you know that the "Bible" has been changed over the past two millennia. Since the Catholic church has left out the good parts of the "Bible" we no longer know what is true, but in the name of Jesus, Christians have destroyed other faiths of the world to supplant their own beliefs on other nations and people which in the "Bible" God says do not JUDGE others or their way of belief.\nAnd I quote nowhere in Genesis does it state that the entire world was governed by God.\n\nIf we did find Atlantis it would rewrite everything we know.\n\n"And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife; and she conceived and bore him Enoch: and he built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Enoch."\nGenesis 4:16&17\n\nNod means to wounder in ancient Hebrew coptic scripts. And we have yet to find "EDEN". AND ENOCH WAS A GOOD PRE-FLOOD CIVILAZATION AND IRRONICLY THE CHILDREN ARE OF CAIN............\n\n*stps off soap box* "Thank you. I'll be back next week." bows and exits stage right.
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The Egyptians are said to have done this in cooporation with the atlantians of atlantis before it sank. Either way, the technology is atlantian. This is also found in the mayan civilization and is said to be spread to the four corners of the earth before it (atlantis) sank.
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The most difficult part of assessing these sorts of things is that if you haven't been there and seen it yourself, you really don't know what is being observed. As long as there are no facts to confuse the issue, the imagination is free to run wild. \n\nI've read about the Bimini Road before, and find it very plausible that it could be a natural deposit of broken up beach rock. In that depostional environment it is common for the seabed to form hardened layers that can be broken up by a storm and might resemble large flagstones.  As a geologist, it seems to me that the most obvious way to prove that Chinese sailors dumped these rocks is to sample the rocks and determine if they are allocthonous- that is from somewhere else (like China??). Since no one seems willing to present this sort of evidence, the claims don't seem to be scientifically supported.\n\nThe Yonaguni Island  is actually more interesting to me, although I see a dangerous assumption being made by anyone saying these are ten thousand years old. The website is very vague about the water depth, but it appears these may be in only 20 feet of water. That would make it possible for these to be man-made and only be a few thousand or even a few hundred years old. The area of this island is quite active tectonically, and subsidence could have only been within the the last millenium. Dr. Schoch also reports that all of the seemingly shaped rocks are part of bedrock, that is there are no large blocks of stone that would help prove these are manmade. He also reports similar styles of weathering of the local rock on some beaches on the island, so the whole thing could still be naturally formed. Again, there are geologic methods that could probably be used to prove how long these rocks have been submerged, and the fact that no one seems to be trying to prove anything here makes me suspicious that there is nothing to prove; that it is much more profitable to keep generating controversy that makes for good tourism and dive attractions. \n\nTo see how the rock could be tested to determine when it was submerged this could be employed:\n(I quote)\n\n "Burial dating:\nIf a quartz-bearing material accumulates 26Al and 10Be while exposed at the surface and is subsequently buried deep enough that it is completely shielded from cosmic rays (e.g. by deposition in a cave, sedimentary deposit, or deep water body), then the 26Al/10Be ratio will diminish over time, recording the time since burial, according to (Granger and Muzikar, 2001) "\nfrom\nhttp://web.ges.gla.ac.uk/~dfabel/CN_explain.html\n\nSo as a geologist, I remain a skeptic because the parties who have made these discoveries are not attempting to prove scientifically that the evidence is real, for whatever reason.
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Look up the Dragon and Serpent in Mythology. They are well known in the Aztec, Chinese and Japanese Mythology as well as many other ancient cultures.\nThere are bodies of water that some say water creatures like the one in Loch ness reside, some have written that they could be creatures of the dinosaur era, I mean if crocodiles/alligators have survived whats to say that others havent.\nWith Aliens, I am sure we are not alone in our galaxy and universe.
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ahhh, i hate ignorance. who is to say the greek gods don't exist. and who is to say this "one God" does exist. How can you just say that the greeks were wrong and that you are right. there is no proof of either and both were created to explain the unexplainable things that happened on earth.