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2009-02-20 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-02-20 12:04|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 So where is the alien spaceship?

Posted by DarthVader 2009-02-20 12:34|| 2009-02-20 12:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Over at the spaceport, where else?

Posted by mojo 2009-02-20 12:39|| 2009-02-20 12:39|| Front Page Top

#3 There probably really was an "Atlantis" but it was likely where the Azores or Canary Islands are now or possibly where some Greek islands are.

During the last ice age that ended about 12K years ago, sea levels were about 400 feet lower than they are now. This would have made areas that are now small islands much larger islands or completely contiguous land masses and it was that way for about 100 thousand years until the ice melted. At that point the oceans rose at an extremely fast rate and could have flooded entire civilizations in the space of a person's lifetime.

In the US, for example, the East Coast extended all the way out to the edge of the continental shelf. There would have been a broad and probably extremely fertile coastal plain. There are probably a lot of early North American humans buried miles out to sea from where the shore is now along with what would have been villages and paths.

The area we now call The Grand Banks of Newfoundland would have all been well above water. An area of land the size of Pennsylvania is under water there.

There were probably lots of "Atlantis" places that were flooded when the ice melted over the past 10,000 years that might have been passed down in legend.

Posted by crosspatch 2009-02-20 13:08|| 2009-02-20 13:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Sometimes rock faults occur on straight lines. Geologically this is probably interesting but it's not Atlantis. Plato made Atlantis up. There is no mention of it prior to Plato, he was not an explorer.

Posted by rjschwarz 2009-02-20 13:10|| 2009-02-20 13:10|| Front Page Top

#5 It's too deep to be Atlantis.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-20 13:14|| 2009-02-20 13:14|| Front Page Top

#6 We'll find out what it is, when the stars are right.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-02-20 13:15|| 2009-02-20 13:15|| Front Page Top

#7 I always wondered where the elves went when they left Middle-Earth.

The directions were , they sailed west?
so Middle earth is somewhere in Africa?

Posted by Rednek Jim 2009-02-20 13:33|| 2009-02-20 13:33|| Front Page Top

#8 Found on Google Ocean did you say?

Sure it isn't a hoax?

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-02-20 13:34|| 2009-02-20 13:34|| Front Page Top

#9 Which carrier has the best fares from Atlanta?

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-20 13:47|| 2009-02-20 13:47|| Front Page Top

#10 In the article it said those straight lines are the tracks the ships used to take the bottom sonar scans. The rest of the image are blank sections where no sonar data exists.

Posted by ed 2009-02-20 13:50|| 2009-02-20 13:50|| Front Page Top

#11 I did a paper back in ~~the Stone Age~~ college about Atlantis.

The evidence at the time pointed to the Greek island of Thera (now a volcanic caldera, IIRC).

Haven't followed it much since, but I doubt this is it....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2009-02-20 14:06|| 2009-02-20 14:06|| Front Page Top

#12 It would be interesting if some "geo" specialist could come up with a theory that would explain how the surface could drop 3+ miles and the ocean rise 1/2 mile. That must have been a heck of an ice age combined with a REALLY major tectonic shift. To be determined....

Posted by tipover 2009-02-20 15:57|| 2009-02-20 15:57|| Front Page Top

#13 #12 It would be interesting if some "geo" specialist could come up with a theory that would explain

Al Gore, will Mr. Al Gore please report to the lost and found desk. Mr. Al Gore.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-20 16:05|| 2009-02-20 16:05|| Front Page Top

#14 During the last ice age that ended about 12K years ago, sea levels were about 400 feet lower than they are now. This would have made areas that are now small islands much larger islands or completely contiguous land masses and it was that way for about 100 thousand years until the ice melted. At that point the oceans rose at an extremely fast rate and could have flooded entire civilizations in the space of a person's lifetime.

Alert the media, victims of global warming/climate change. Its all Bush's fault

Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-02-20 17:22|| 2009-02-20 17:22|| Front Page Top

#15 Darth :
So where is the alien spaceship?

Right Here -
Alien Spaceship?

Posted by BigEd 2009-02-20 19:06|| 2009-02-20 19:06|| Front Page Top

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