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  • Sparteling News: A Man Scans Atlantis

    Full fathom five thy fable lies....


    A submerged island that could be the source of the Atlantis myth was hit by a large earthquake and tsunami 12,000 years ago, a geologist has discovered.
    Spartel Island now lies 60m under the sea in the Straits of Gibraltar, but some think it once lay above water.

    The finding adds weight to a hypothesis that the island could have inspired the legend recounted by the philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago.

    Evidence comes from a seafloor survey published in the journal Geology.

    Marc-André Gutscher of the University of Western Brittany in Plouzané, France, found a coarse-grained sedimentary deposit that is 50-120cm thick and could have been left behind after a tsunami.

    Dr Gutscher said that the destruction described by Plato is consistent with a great earthquake and tsunami similar to the one that devastated the city of Lisbon in Portugal in 1755, generating waves with heights of up to 10m.


    Some think the Atlantis legend was inspired by real events

    The thick "turbidite" deposit results from sediments that have been shaken up by underwater geological upheavals.

    It was found to date to around 12,000 years ago - roughly the age indicated by Plato for the destruction of Atlantis, Dr Gutscher reports in Geology.

    Spartel Island, in the Gulf of Cadiz, was proposed as a candidate for the origin of the Atlantis legend in 2001 by French geologist Jacques Collina-Girard.

    It is "in front of the Pillars of Hercules", or the Straits of Gibraltar, as Plato described. The philosopher said the fabled island civilisation had been destroyed in a single day and night, disappearing below the sea.

    Sedimentary records reveal that events like the 1755 Lisbon earthquake occur every 1,500 to 2,000 years in the Gulf of Cadiz.

    But the mapping of the island carried out by Dr Gutscher failed to turn up any manmade structures and also showed that the island was much smaller than previously believed.

    This could make it less likely that the island was inhabited by a civilisation. (Boo- killjoys)
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    Old Plato's tectonics were right after all !
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  • #2
    Atlantis = Cuba
    Monkey!!!

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    • #3
      Supposedly the ruins of *something* lie in deep waters off the shores of Cuba, but I haven't heard much beyond that.

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      • #4
        That's where they dumped excess communism in the 80's.
        I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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        • #5
          Why do they call it an island if it's 60m below water?
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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          • #6
            Altlantis = Minoans on Santorini

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            • #7
              Or Minoans on Crete when it got hit with an earthquake and tsunami because of Santorini.
              Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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              • #8
                Totally speculative of course, but I recently read a book which speculated that Atlantis (and the flood story prevalent in many cultures) was actually on the Black Sea coast.
                When the Bosphorus was finally breached by the rising sea-level (which may have been as recently as 7000 years ago!) the inland lake would have swelled (with coastlines retreating by 100-150km within a month).
                19th Century Liberal, 21st Century European

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                • #9
                  I thought that was just Noah's Flood.
                  Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                  • #10
                    Or Minoans on Crete when it got hit with an earthquake and tsunami because of Santorini.

                    Santorini just has the right shape, too. Island within an insland, and all that.

                    Seen Santorini from the air, btw. Beautiful.
                    urgh.NSFW

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                    • #11
                      There is a place of the west coast of wales that has long been the source of an atlantis type myth. When the tide is low it exposes the roots of a petrified forest and there are tales of people hearing bells tolling from under the sea. It also features in the mabinogion texts(old welsh tales written down in the early middle ages).
                      'The very basis of the liberal idea – the belief of individual freedom is what causes the chaos' - William Kristol, son of the founder of neo-conservitivism, talking about neo-con ideology and its agenda for you.info here. prove me wrong.

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                      • #12
                        Neat!
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by child of Thor
                          There is a place of the west coast of wales that has long been the source of an atlantis type myth. When the tide is low it exposes the roots of a petrified forest and there are tales of people hearing bells tolling from under the sea. It also features in the mabinogion texts(old welsh tales written down in the early middle ages).
                          And St. Brendan's legend also is connected to this myth. Furthermore, there is a cartographic tradition that even reaches into the 19th century that shows the island of "Brazil" west of Ireland. The whole idea of a paradisical island west of Ireland reaches back to Celtic mythology.
                          "The world is too small in Vorarlberg". Austrian ex-vice-chancellor Hubert Gorbach in a letter to Alistar [sic] Darling, looking for a job...
                          "Let me break this down for you, fresh from algebra II. A 95% chance to win 5 times means a (95*5) chance to win = 475% chance to win." Wiglaf, Court jester or hayseed, you judge.

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                          • #14
                            Why not just accept the story as told and rely on Plato? This placement of Atlantis would help explain the megalith culture ringing the N Atlantic and Malta.

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                            • #15
                              Beware of the Wraith!
                              I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"

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