Anyone got thoughts on Atlantis, the sunken city?
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I think its a possibitly that it did exist - or at least a place like it. Otherwise there wouldn't never had been as much talk about it. Plus, I think it would just be the sh!t if it did exist!! :)
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I actually saw a documentary on this, on the channel "Discovery Civilizations".\n\nBasically, it said the whole area is tectonically unstable and laced with pockets of underground gas.  There was an earthquake, that resulted in liquefaction of the sands, and the entire cities slid right into the sea.  The fires were the result of friction lighting the gas pockets on fire.   \n\nIt would have been horrifying to behold.
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Me... I was going to give up TV altogether, given all the crappy-repetitive shows, but "Lost" has managed to keep me hooked on. I haven't missed one single episode!\n\nI guess I like it because it's original, well-thought, it has some very interesting character and plot development and a quite polished look, since all details are given a lot of attention. (ie: scars from the plane crash actually heal in the same time that they would in real-life)\nI only hope that the series manages to solve all its inside mysteries without any loose ends...
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of course that it existed,but there is a misconception that Atlantis was a continent,Atlantis was a city on a continent called Appalachia,even though some part of Appalachia exist today,but where Atlantis was situated is laying beneath the sea,Appalachia covered from Iceland to Irland,with some land in Atlantic Ocean,the time frame for Atlantis hasnt been millions of years,the way the other answerer has presumed,around 12 thousand years ago,Atlantis has sunk at the result of a war,against Lemuria,now Lemuria was situated on a continent called,Oceania or Mu,or Lemuria,it was in pacific ocean and extended to Indean ocean,countries like Philippines,Indonesia are actually the mountain picks of Lemuria,which has survived the Ocean,if you want more detailed information in this regard you can ask me,i will provide you with the detailed information,\npeace,love
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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....
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I mean this, too....where are the Arc of the Covenant and the Holy Grail?  Some say they are hidden in secretive places by the Jews, some say they're hidden beneath the Vatican.  Some say Atlantis sank into the sea near present day Greece and some say it sank off the coast of northern Africa.  Some say...some say...until these things are found or proved true they will remain just that....some say!
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A short distance off the coast of the remote Micronesian island of Pohnpei lies one of the greatest archeological mysteries in the world, the Lost City of Nan Madol. Built on an ancient coral reef and covering more than 11 square miles, this ancient city is made up of hundreds of artificial islets, intersected by numerous manmade canals. Even more curious, many of the city’s larger islands are connected by submerged tunnels. First discovered in the early 1800’s by European sailors, this baffling and immense megalithic stone city may contain evidence for the fabled lost continent of Mu.\n\nThe mysterious Nan Madol is built entirely out of gigantic magnetized basalt crystals, some weighing as much as fifty tons. In fact, the entire city contains an estimated 250 million tons of the prismatic basalt rock.
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Atlantis is the most interesting one that comes to mind.
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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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No, the island of Atlantis was supposedly near the Azores island and a tsunami or hurricane wiped it out. The Bermuda triangle is on the other side of the world.
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Somewhere between Atlantis and Middle Earth.
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Various explanations for the apparent high number of disappearances have been put forward, ranging from the mundane to the hyper-fantastic.\n\nSkeptics contend that this region has a comparable rate of maritime and aerial incidents as any other similar sized region of the ocean. They point out that Lloyd's of London, a world-renowned insurer of maritime vessels, does not charge a higher insurance premium for ships that regularly traverse the triangle.\n\nScientific considerations for an increased disappearance rate take into account that this region experiences severe tropical storms and is the source of many hurricanes. These storms create an increased danger to both ship and air traffic.\n\nRogue waves have also been put forward as a possible cause. These rare waves can reach heights of as much as 100 feet (30 meters), easily swamping most ships. Rouge waves, however, would have no effect on air travel.\n\nA third scientific explanation is methane hydrates. Methane deposits on the ocean floor may release bursts of methane gas that reduces the density of the water it permeates. Since ships rely on displacement to stay afloat, a reduction of density in the water would cause a ship to immediately sink. As the methane leaves the water and rises into the air, it would reduce the density of the air as well, thus reducing lift on aircraft, causing them to descend rapidly. In addition, the methane would change the air mixture taken into the engines of the aircraft, causing the engine to stall. While these events have not been witnessed in nature, they have been proved in lab experiments.\n\nMore exotic explanations for the Bermuda Triangle include it being an area of magnetic disturbance, temporal (or time) holes, the location of the lost city of Atlantis, or extra-terrestrial abduction.
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I've watched it ever since it began...looove it. It's very educational, informative and fun to watch. I too, have learned ALOT from watching it. What do you think of the return of Summer? I don't like it...but we'll see how she behaves now. She could surprise me.
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Atlantis is an ancient mythical island, whose existence and location have never been confirmed. The first references to Atlantis are from the classical Greek philosopher Plato, who said it was engulfed by the ocean as the result of an earthquake 9,000 years before his own time.\n\nWhile there are many theories about Atlantis, nearly all serious research concludes that Atlantis never existed as Plato described it, although elements of his story may have been drawn from real events.
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Hi, I am Rational Spirituality,\n\nI channel my Divine Spirit Guide Lysseus.  He conveyed to me the full concept of the evolution of the Universe.  Like you, I asked him about the Atlantis.  Apparently it existed, and it offered suitable conditions for the incarnations of the most advanced human Souls of that age.  That included the three Souls to become Divine, i.e. to become the Subjective God, as well as the majority of Souls from the 6th, the highest human Soul Group. Atlantis was in the spiritual sense the birth place of humanity, or at least of the very best of humanity.\n\n"Rational Spirituality" is available on the Dhaxem website.  Although conveyed only in February 2006, it is already a major force amongst the thinking people.
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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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I dont think that we will ever understand the way the people thier live.... I agree that it is a hornets nest....\nseems like everything that I have read about the area points towards war.......seems like the only semi stable goverment the whole area had was during the otterman empire... I like the people I met thier and I enjoyed traveling there... not sure if democracy is going to take.. \n seems like thier mindset is more of a tribal nature... where the order of alliegence is God,family , tribe. then country.......makes for some interesting interaction... a good book\nhttp://www.danielpipes.org/article/32/\nI enjoyed it .....helped me understand the area a little better.. Peace