ATLANTIS... Do you think it's real?
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The best archeological evidence of an Atlantis, points to the garden paradise of Indonesia, near where the Tsunami hit last year...\n\n10,000 years ago, there was a flurry of earthquakes in that region, which caused massive migrations Westward. These people who left this area which was overcome by  volcanic eruptions moved to India, Ceylon, Babylon, Sumeria and finally Egypt roughly 6-8,000 years ago...\n\nYou must remember they had to walk, or boat away from their increasingly dangerous home; hence the legends of the Garden of Eden & Atlantis followed them!
571146
its difficult to tell.. if its for real then thats really silly.. wait i checked it again.. its not real!!!! thats for sure..
435752
Seahorses - yes\nMermaids/mermen - i wish, but not currently\nAtlantis - i think yes, it did exist at some point,  because of the oral legends.  For years people thought Troy was only a legend, and then evidence of where it was was, was found (in the 70's or 80's i think).  So, i'm holding out hope for Atlantis....
330688
Greetings,\n\nThe rock that was photographed was real.  However it doesn't look any more like a face than Mt. Rainer in Washington state looks like a face.  Poor resolution, bad lighting, and 1970's technology gave us the face on Mars.  Awesome technology has given us the truth.\n\nCheck out the second link for the before and after pictures.\n\n-matt
350290
i dont think we'll know til we get up there for real. BUT the history channel has been very accurate on all accounts since i've seen it... so... if it says it is then, i guess so. but we'll see. the whole idea of it being there is pretty cool though.
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roswell new mexico, a site where a supposed alien ship crashed in 1947 and the US government found the bodies and the ship and have been doing tests and so forth on it ever since. and now its become a hub of everything top secret. you dont think we went from horse&buggy to broadband internet and civilian space trips in only 100 years without a little help do you?  i dont think its real, but alot of people do. its one of those things you have to do your own looking into
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Yes, the moon landings were real. Some people still maintain that the Earth is flat - no one takes them seriously; no one should take the 'moon landing is a hoax' seriously either.\n\nFirst, we have material evidence: rocks from the moon, photographs taken from there, the word of thousands and thousands of people who worked on the project, etc. Even more damning, the astronauts left a prism mirror on the moon that anyone with a medium laser can target to see the laser reflected! And do you really think the Russians wouldn't have raised a stink if any of their, oh, dozen thousands physicists had found something dodgy? Or do you think they all failed to know about something like 'heat and air on the moon'?\n\nThen we have so much stuff in space now, like thousands of satellites, probes on Mars, and even outside the solar system, what is so unlikely about landing on the moon, which is incredibly close to us, astronomically speaking? It's only 3 days away!\n\nAll the arguments from conspiracy theorists have been easily rebuked; the three sites at the end give a good rundown. The most commons were:\n\n- There is a flag waving! there is no air on the moon! Hoax!\nHum. The flag is not moving, notice? It *looks* like it's in the middle of a wave, because it was built like that! The NASA, incredibly enough, figured out that there was no wind on the moon, and that a limp flag would be a tad disappointing, so simply attached the flag to perpendicular poles in that position. Try it in your garden, it will take 5 minutes.\n\n- The photos are too good! That's not possible!\nNo, they took hundreds of pictures, and you only see the good ones, just like any amateur photographer will tell you. \n\n- The footprint doesn't look at all like the one you leave in sand!\nThat's because the moon is not covered in sand... Sand is created by erosive forces grinding up rock, like the sea or plate tectonics. The moon has no erosive force, since it's dry and not volcanic. The dust there is rocks vaporised by meteoric impacts, which looks a lot like flour. Put a heap of flour on the ground and watch your footprint: very similar, no?\n\nSo, no, the government is not involved in *this* coverup :-)
22078
The greek philosopher Plato was the first to describe Atlantis (Timaios and Kritias). According to Plato, it disappeared about 9.000 years before him. Strangely enough there are no other sources to confirm that, so most probably, Plato invented the story himself, maybe inspired by a natural disaster, like the explosion of the volcano Thera 1.500 b.c.\nDonnelly revitalised the story in a book from 1882. And later Madame Blavatsky.\nOceanologists have not found any profe of Atlantis, though they know the oceans quite well. So how interesting the story about Atlantis is, most probably it is just another good story!
802641
Can there be any doubts? Aliens, of course. I want to know if Erich von Daniken is right when he says alien visitations have occurred in the ancient past.
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All the dimensions given in Plato's account of Atlantis are approximately 10 times the size of Crete.  Its distance from Egypt is about 10 times the distance of Crete, too, and the date of its destruction is 10 times longer ago than the volcanic eruption and tidal wave which probably destroyed Minoan Crete in 1500 BC.\n\nIt is very plausible that when Solon got this story from an Egyptian priest, he mistranslated the numbers, and Plato just copied them, which would have put Atlantis beyond the pillars of Hercules instead of just south of Greece.
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I would think that a conspiracy theory that is more fact than theory would be the most believable one. For example; Area 51... Area 51, also called Groom Lake, is a fact, not a mere theory. Area 51 is not on any map, but Groom Lake is. You can also see it in satellite images that are commonly available in the internet. Many people theorize on what goes on at Area 51 however. I, however, have been there myself and can personally account for what goes on there. There is at least one tour company that offers tours to Area 51 where the average citizen can see the wonders that abound there and participate in many of the bases "secret" activities. See, what you do is sign up for the tour. The tour will take you to the edge of Groom Lake where you will see signs that say that deadly force is authorized if you proceed past that point. Now you have to be part of the tour to gain access beyond that point, otherwise, you will be shot.  Seriously, the guys in the black pickups don’t joke around.\n\nNow the tour takes you up the road and over the ridge into the dry lake bed. It gets a little fun because as you cross the dry lake bed, speeds can reach 120 mph or so. The lake bed itself is huge. Then you come up on some huge buildings. Inside the buildings are the alien spacecraft that they have captured over the years. There are quite a few of them. This is where the substance of the tour takes place. Now they also carry out secret military operations at the base, which nobody gets to see, they mainly happen at night and all of the tours are during the day.\n\nWhile you are in the alien spacecraft hanger you get to climb on some of the smaller craft, and they even have an alien spaceship flight simulator for those that are adventurous enough to try it. The whole tour is really cool. While I was there I actually got to meet one of the captured aliens. He or she, nobody knows for sure, is not really a prisoner, but its spacecraft crashed after skimming our atmosphere over the south pole so it has no way to get home. But they also won’t let it leave the base without a heavy escort.\n\nToward the end of the tour, before driving back across the dry lake, they take everyone into a small room, with pale green walls. On one of the walls is a large television looking screen. Once the door closes, the screen starts flashing weird colors and bright lights. Most people pass out and have to be carried back to the tour vehicle, but some are able to walk. Usually most people sort of wake up outside of the gate and they don’t remember anything after approaching the gate in the first place. It is weird, kinda like the blinky thing in MIB. I have only been there once and I don’t really remember any of the cool stuff, but that’s what they tell me happened. I was there and I can tell you - that’s the truth. If you have the opportunity to visit the Little A'Le'Inn Restaurant and Bar on the Extraterrestrial Highway in Rachel, ask them about the tours, they will tell you.\n\nI also visited the sight where JFK was shot - I am telling you, there is no way it makes sense that he was shot from the Book Depository.
656375
I don't think you can believe it at all. It was all made up by L Ron Hubbard. It is a science fiction story . Unfortunately some people will believe anything.
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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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I'm very much a realist, but I have one story I cannot expalin.\n\nI was watching what I thought was a helicopter off the coast of Maine.  It was hovering and slowly moving around an island roughly seven miles away.  It was late afternoon, so the light was fantastic and the air, for once, was very clear.\n\nThis object slid back and forth maybe 3000-4000 feet high (triangulate from the distance) and then it did two strange things:  it sort of oscillated in a tight radius back and forth, like lint getting sucked down a bath drain, and then it just winked out of sight.  It didn't exactly disappear all at once, rather, it kind of took a moment or two.  I thought it might had slipped into a fog bank, but there was no fog; I could see distant color in the sky.\n\nI don't think about this experience so much anymore.  But I do get chills when I do recall that day.  I have no explanation, and I offer no theories.  But that's my story.
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Yeah, like these crazy pyramids discovered on Mars, next to the giant face.  What were those guys thinking those were pyramids?\n\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/cydred.jpg\n\nIt's OBVIOUS that all those are just illusions.\n\nhttp://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e397/Bigpappadiaz/cydonia.gif
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hmm.....is this the real life, or is this just fantasy?
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Probably most people believe in it, but it has its skeptics, too.  After all, just because the continents SEEM to fit together, that hardly means they DID.  Anyone who reads a murder mystery can tell you that appearance is not the same as reality.\n\nThere is fairly interesting animation done by Neal Adams, for example, demonstrating how a large mass of continents on one side of the planet would throw off the axial spin and redistribute the oceans until Pangea was swamped and a new island was formed on the other side of the planet (link 1).  Though I'm awfully skeptical of the remainder of Adams' ideas, his criticism of the existing model seems to be a valid one.\n\nAs for me, I'm keeping an open mind.  I haven't seen too many compelling reasons why there MUST have been a Pangea, nor having I seen too many why there could not possibly have been one.  I suppose we'll just have to see.