You could have been waiting for this. Google Earth recently added Google Ocean, an extension that uses a combination of satellite images and marine surveys. Now, someone has discovered this 'grid' on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, 620 miles off the west coast of Africa near the Canary Islands.
Dr Charles Orser, curator of historical archaeology at New York State University - and one of the world's leading authorities on Atlantis - called it 'fascinating.'
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Hang on! Look at the picture carefully. Compare the distance between the parallel lines on the sea floor, on the one hand, and the distance between streets in a typical city. The "streets" in this "city" are VERY far apart!
Maybe the citizens of Atlantis were very big people.
More likely, this is data from a survey ship that sailed back and forth, taking depth measurements. What you're seeing is the ship's path: wherever the ship measured the depth, Google uses the ship's data. Elsewhere, Google uses a less accurate map, and the two are data are different exactly in those places where the ship sailed.
Sorry to deflate a nice fantasy.
Alejo
Could this be the result of fishing nets being dragged along the ocean floor?
Aaron
I'm just going to wait for the official verdict from someone who does this stuff for a living, rather then listen to some generic e-smartass who thinks he knows everything.
Well, it certainly can't be a city under the sea. Look at the Google Maps link for yourself:
http://maps.google.com/maphp?hl=en&q=&ie=UTF8&ll=31.292634,-24.043579&spn=3.248008,3.762817&t=h&z=8
look at the scale on the bottom left of the screen. Those lines are easily 10 km apart. If that doesn't convince you, drag the map (without zooming) until you find a city on land. Cities are much smaller than this!
The straight lines and common sense tells me that this is man-made, but it also tells me it's not a city.
Aleoj
Alejo is right : the Official Google Blog confirms this :
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/
http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009/02/atlantis-no-it-atlant-isnt.html
regards.
Pierre
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