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entertheoctopus
02/24/09

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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 reunion episode of "In Search Of" in which they explore the underwater ruins. Tune in via your Ouija Boards.
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bonniegrrl
02/23/09

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I wish Google Maps would concentrate on finding something I care about like Nessie.
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The Curse of Millhaven
02/23/09

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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!
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corpore-metal
02/23/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: Yep. Anyone with a bit of reading of ancient history would know that Plato made up Atlantis.

Troy on the other hand, actually existed.
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Grey_Area
02/23/09

@corpore-metal: It's true, Troy was real! [en.wikipedia.org]
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The Curse of Millhaven
02/23/09

@Grey_Area: I'd like to see Troy McClure destroyed by a mob of Greeks.

To be honest I have always thought that words like "probably," "could have," and "might well have been" should be applied to the likely site of Homer's Troy more often than your average documentary chooses to apply such terms. Unwarranted certainty is a disease common to archaeologists. "Pick an idea and defend it to the death" seems like an unscientific motto.
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Grey_Area
02/23/09

@The Curse of Millhaven: "Hi, I'm Troy McClure! You might have see in such epics as The Twelve Neighbors of Hercules or Minotaur II: The Un-Mazing..."

Archaeologists! What can you expect from a pack of jumped-up grave robbers. Quantum physicists, now there's some solid practical science going on there.

"Uhh. So there's this Cat, see, but it's not dead and alive 'coz that would be stupid...and some flavored charms and...uh... Oh yeah, everything is made out of string."

"Dude, gimme the bong."

"Hey, let's blow up Switzerland with the LHC again!"

"Okay. Just don't forget to hit the Auto-Reset."
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robfagen
02/23/09

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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 to be about the same.
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tande04
02/23/09

@robfagen: Thats not really how it happens. io9 must of just read it wrong. Its just an artifact from when they piece together the data.

Don't know where they got the "dragging a cable" part from.
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Annalee Newitz
02/23/09

@robfagen: Maybe it's a giant cover-up? Google is mining the lost city for search terms that it wants to hog for itself?
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GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
02/23/09

@robfagen: It's not the length, it's the girth.
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Grey_Area
02/23/09

@AcceptingTheAward_GitEmSteveDave: Waitasec. Girth? Gy' Rith?...No that's not it. Ah! Don't you see?

Atlantis was, as any babbling idiot knows, built on a plan of concentric circles- not a grid like this. This is obviously one of the cities left behind by The Great Race of Yith!!
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Annalee Newitz
02/23/09

@tande04: Yeah, fixed that. I misunderstood the quote. Just added the full quote to the post for clarity.
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jovestar
02/23/09

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"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 be "dragging" across 2 vectors. And the artifacts just happened to cross in neatly compartmentalized rectangles forming, if cut in half from top to bottom (at least from this orientation), a larger near-mirror-image enclosure?

They get a bunch of the google earth maps from government satellites. Must have some kind of "what if we find this or that" confidentiality clause there. I know this is quite different, but...

Sure, it is HUGE. But I'm not ready to close the book on this one...
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tande04
02/23/09

@jovestar: Thats not whats going on.

There isn't anything dragging anything across the floor.

You've got a boat. The boat uses sonar and yes, the boat does use a grid pattern to map it. They're just not putting it together right in this spot.

When this first broke I was bored at work and screwed around with google earth for awhile. You find this a lot actually.
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Annalee Newitz
02/23/09

@tande04: Sorry - fixed that. Added the exact quote from Google.
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Slatz_Grobnik
02/23/09

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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 sure its the mapping equipment that did it. Which is what they tell us, as they sip martinis in their secret underwater lair.
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zenpoet
02/23/09

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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 said:

From auquatic eyes on leashes
we shall see the coming
of the metal gods
that speak our fall
on 45 through 19
and something about 9-11 and
the middle east as well.

So it is foretold, so it shall be.
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qwijybo
02/23/09

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I found it hard to be a "city" the front gate is almost 15k wide.
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Grey_Area
02/23/09

@qwijybo: The scale is troubling until you realize it was made by Italian Giant Pink Bunnies.

[maps.google.com]
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Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
02/23/09

@qwijybo: Well it is a big city.
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nutbastard
02/23/09

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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 terrain where direct measurements don't exist.
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