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more about #urbanlegend more comments → entertheoctopus: The Loch Ness monster has confirmed to me that this is indeed the lost city of Atlantis. Nessie and Bigfoot are joining Leonard Nimoy for a special re... more » bonniegrrl: I wish Google Maps would concentrate on finding something I care about like Nessie. more » The Curse of Millhaven: Argh! Plato made it up for a morality story. That's it! There is no frakking Atlantis! God damn Edgar Cayce, his minions and George Lucas! more » robfagen: That must be one big-ass cable. Each of those trenches appears to be about a mile across. Likewise, the apparent depth of some of the trenches appears... more » jovestar: "caused by its own terrain mapping equipment, which sometimes drags a line behind it as the seafloor is measured"... Hard to imagine; they'd need to b... more » Slatz_Grobnik: That's exactly what Google wants you to think! Where do you think the technology for the internet came from, hunh? Aliens? Bell Labs? So, yeah, I'm su... more » zenpoet: What many of you may not believe is that is the layout of the Pentium 19 chip, which will debut in 2045, which was foretold by Nostradamus, wherein he... more » qwijybo: I found it hard to be a "city" the front gate is almost 15k wide. more » nutbastard: you'd think they would have algorithm'd such artifacts out of the map - given the peripheral data, it wouldn't be hard to deduce the likely or average... more » RAHfanboy: We evolved for millions of years with the greater light from the full moon, which may have meant more predation, both by and against us. It could be ... more » Grey_Area: I'm leaning towards the "more light at night" hypothesis put forth by some of the previous commenters. It's easier to cause mischief and mayhem when y... more » DrMathochist: [Thakur and Sharma] believe that the full moon exerts more gravity on the water in human bodies... Thakur and Sharma need to take a damn physics class... more » Meirelle: I've been feeling rather irritable over the last couple days, but I don't blame that on the full moon. lol This is like the people who believe every w... more » Gann: I'd be willing to bet it's a psychological side effect of there being more light at night. I know in Alaska you get a weird sort of energy when the d... more » Seth L: What, no Lycanthropy tag? more » -
#pseudoscience
Google Maps Reveal Lost City of Atlantis?
On Friday, Google maps spawned another web myth. A mysterious grid of lines revealed by the company's new undersea terrain maps had the interwebs buzzing about the lost city of Atlantis. More »
