Has Atlantis been found? No

Posted by SMN on 26 February 2009 | 0 Comments

Tags: Phenomena

Last week the papers ran a story about Bernie Bamford, an aeronautical engineer, who was browsing Google Ocean, and found a rectangle on the sea floor, criss crossed with lines and right angles, about the size of Wales, in the middle of the Atlantic (see picture). It looks like a city grid, and he gave the image to the media, suggesting that maybe it could be the long lost city of Atlantis. The myth of Atlantis, a civilisation that is said to have sunk into the sea 12,000 years ago, is an enduring one. And the image correspondingly got some serious press coverage in tabloids and broadsheets alike.

But the debunkers came along and said that in fact it was just 'ship tracks' from the kind of echosounding process that is used to map the ocean floor.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/atlantis-no-it-atlant-isnt.html

So Atlantis hasn't been found yet. But the story does point towards the fact that with so much data about the world, the oceans and universe, now available to everyone in their own living room, by way of the internet, perhaps it is going to be someone like Bernie who makes the next big scientific discovery. Will someone browsing Google Earth spot Nessie or a family of yetis? Maybe not. But there's no doubt that we are all discoverers now if we want to be.

SMN