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"Gregory Gadow" |
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07 Jun 2004 12:06:41 PM |
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OT: Satellite images of Atlantis? (With pics!) |
Satellite images 'show Atlantis'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online science staff
A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
Satellite photos of southern Spain reveal features on the ground
appearing to match descriptions made by Greek scholar Plato of the
fabled utopia.
Dr Rainer Kuehne thinks the "island" of Atlantis simply referred to a
region of the southern Spanish coast destroyed by a flood between 800 BC
and 500 BC.
The research has been reported as an ongoing project in the online
edition of the journal Antiquity.
Satellite photos of a salt marsh region known as Marisma de Hinojos near
the city of Cadiz show two rectangular structures in the mud and parts
of concentric rings that may once have surrounded them.
"Plato wrote of an island of five stades (925m) diameter that was
surrounded by several circular structures - concentric rings - some
consisting of Earth and the others of water. We have in the photos
concentric rings just as Plato described," Dr Kuehne told BBC News
Online.
Dr Kuehne, of the University of Wuppertal in Germany, believes the
rectangular features could be the remains of a "silver" temple devoted
to the sea god Poseidon and a "golden" temple devoted to Cleito and
Poseidon - all described in Plato's dialogue Critias.
Temples of the sea god
The sizes of the "island" and its rings in the satellite image are
slightly larger than those described by Plato. There are two possible
explanations for this, says Dr Kuehne.
First, Plato may have underplayed the size of Atlantis. Secondly, the
ancient unit of measurement used by Plato - the stade - may have been
20% larger than traditionally assumed.
If the latter is true, one of the rectangular features on the "island"
matches almost exactly the dimensions given by Plato for the temple of
Poseidon.
The article continues at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm
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Gregory Gadow for Washington State House
Independent, District 43
http://www.gregory-gadow.info
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| User: "Mike Painter" |
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| Title: Re: Satellite images of Atlantis? (With pics!) |
07 Jun 2004 02:53:38 PM |
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"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message
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Satellite images 'show Atlantis'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online science staff
A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
May I go first?
Since it used to be thought that Atlantis was a myth, just as Troy used to
be a myth, this proves that the bible is true and the flood really happened
because some people think it is a myth.
Pretty good, huh?
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| User: "JTEM" |
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| Title: Re: Satellite images of Atlantis? (With pics!) |
07 Jun 2004 07:49:01 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote
Since it used to be thought that Atlantis was a myth, just
as Troy used to be a myth, this proves that the bible is
true and the flood really happened because some people
think it is a myth.
Pretty good, huh?
"It's spooky, but Atlantis was EXACTLY where it's supposed
to be."
I guess the argument is that people were intentionally looking
in the wrong place all these centuries...
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| User: "bogie" |
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| Title: Re: Satellite images of Atlantis? (With pics!) |
07 Jun 2004 04:05:41 PM |
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"Mike Painter" <mddotpainter@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:6J3xc.81317$tc.80776@newssvr25.news.prodigy.com...
"Gregory Gadow" <techbear@serv.net> wrote in message
news:40C4A0A1.59369B8@serv.net...
Satellite images 'show Atlantis'
By Paul Rincon
BBC News Online science staff
A scientist says he may have found remains of the lost city of Atlantis.
May I go first?
Since it used to be thought that Atlantis was a myth, just as Troy used to
be a myth, this proves that the bible is true and the flood really
happened
because some people think it is a myth.
Pretty good, huh?
....stunning...
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bogie
"Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money.
Work when people are watching."
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