Scientist Fail To Discover Atlantis, Despite Reports To the Contrary!

[Count_Zirock]

http://skeptophilia.blogspot.com/2013/05/breaking-news-scientists-once-again.html?m=1

[Scatter]

You mean scientists have failed to discover what never existed? Shocking! 

[Haunted hearse]

You mean scientists have failed to discover what never existed? Shocking! 

Isn't the point of "Finding Bigfoot" to have a series where every week, our intrepid investigators fail to find what they're seeking?

[Moonshadow]

http://www.businessinsider.com/brazilian-atlantis-granite-samples-2013-5

I liked all the articles that showed the hunk of granite, or as I like to call it, the Turd of Atlantis.

[Scatter]

  Isn't the point of "Finding Bigfoot" to have a series where every week, our intrepid investigators fail to find what they're seeking?

BIGFOOT IS REAL DAMMIT!!!

[horrorhunter]

My cousin has big feet........and he's real.

[Haunted hearse]

BIGFOOT IS REAL DAMMIT!!!

Just to be clear, I never said what they were seeking wasn't real, just that they were unable to locate what they were seeking. 

[Zackuth]

You mean scientists have failed to discover what never existed? Shocking! 

I'm not so sure that Atlantis did not exist.  The city of Troy that Homer wrote about was considered a legend until Heinrich Schliemann found it in the 1870's.  In 2012, German archeologists found an ancient Roman outpost and many searches into the Mediterranean have revealed sunken settlements.

I have read a few books on Atlantis, one being Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly in the early 90's and one of the things that struck me was Donnelly's commenting on words of similar sounds with the same meaning being spoken by peoples that probably never met (such as the peoples of South America, the Inuit of North America and the people of the Canary Islands).  And not just one or two words, there were throughout the book a couple of hundred with many different peoples.  Now, Donnelly did believe in the existance of Atlantis and many of his conclusions of "this can only have happened because Atlantis" I did think could have another explaination.  But the similar words, to me, must have had an outside influence.

[Scatter]

Oh, there are a plethora of underwater ruins. But Atlantis (which is never referenced before Plato wrote of it) was supposedly the size of Asia and Africa combined. Odd that nobody else had ever heard of the place.

No, Atlantis, if it ever did exist, might have been some little speck of dirt surrounding a volcano which eventually sank it, but it was nothing like Plato's account. That Atlantis never existed. Hell, the catastrophe that could destroy an island the size of Africa and Asia would have doomed every other living thing on the planet along with it.

[Zackuth]

Plato's account states that Atlantis sank in a "single day and night of misfortune".  Now, assuming that it was a full 24 hour period, and assuming that Atlantis rose a maximum of 5000 feet above sea level, that means it sank at an average rate of 3.5 feet per minute.  I get into a cold pool faster than that and the ripples I create do not reach the opposite end of the pool. 

[Scatter]

Plato's account states that Atlantis sank in a "single day and night of misfortune".  Now, assuming that it was a full 24 hour period, and assuming that Atlantis rose a maximum of 5000 feet above sea level, that means it sank at an average rate of 3.5 feet per minute.  I get into a cold pool faster than that and the ripples I create do not reach the opposite end of the pool.

Dude...........we're not talking about sinking a rubber ducky in your tub. Plato described a CONTINENT larger than ASIA sinking in 24 hours. The forces exerted by that massive a tectonic event would have caused worldwide catastrophe. Volcanic cataclysm, mega-tsunamis, little stuff like that.

[Monster Kid]

Yes, Scatter, plus the fact that there is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge in the center of the Atlantic Ocean and there would be no room for a continent there in the middle of a sea floor spreading zone.   That is usually where Atlantis is placed, right ?

I read a book once, can't recall the authors, but it stated with humor that people did not have television back in the classical days of Greece and Rome so they told tales to amuse themselves. Atlantis is one of these.   I don't doubt that a city was destroyed somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea by tectonic activity.

[Haunted hearse]

The thing about Atlantis is, what record of tales exist of this place, prior to Plato mentioning it? My understanding was Plato was attempting an allegory, to present an example of what can happen to a country if it get's too high handed.  Places like Troy come from stories that were handed down, and finally written  down in an epic poem, I think Plato created Atlantis out of whole cloth, to tell a good story. 

[Monster Kid]

You are wise in your generation, Haunted Hearse.

[Count_Zirock]

Dude...........we're not talking about sinking a rubber ducky in your tub. Plato described a CONTINENT larger than ASIA sinking in 24 hours. The forces exerted by that massive a tectonic event would have caused worldwide catastrophe. Volcanic cataclysm, mega-tsunamis, little stuff like that.

Did it ever occur to you that maybe Zackuth is larger than the continent of Asia, but didn't mention it because he's embarrassed by his size? Have some sensitivity...jerk.