Did Google Earth find Atlantis?
Google is officially denying widespread Internet rumors that its Google Earth software located the mythical sunken city of Atlantis off the coast of Africa. Google may be totally trying to hide something and as I always appreciate a nice juicy conspiracy theory, I’m going to go with this theory.
From what it sounds like, a British aeronautical engineer was playing around with the new Google Earth 5.0, which includes undersea data, and noticed something funny off the coast of Africa, about 600 miles west of the Canary Islands, that resembled a pattern of a street grid. According to the United Kingdom’s Press Association, the pattern of streets equated to an area the size of Wales. A man is trawling the ocean floor with Google Earth and like the UK newspaper The Telegraph reported the story first, adding that the exact coordinates are 31 15′15.53N, 24 15′30.53W.
Atlantis was a legendary island city first mentioned by Plato, allegedly a hard-core naval power located somewhere near North Africa that disappeared when it sank into the ocean. We’re guessing global warming was a problem back then, too. Thank you Al Gore. Most people think that Plato made it up, kind of like how those guys in Scotlad made up the story about seing the Loch Ness monster, but others just won’t stop believing.
When it comes to Atlantis, Google had to rain on everyone’s parade. “It’s true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth, including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an ancient Roman villa,” a statement from Google read. “In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.” Hmmm, smells like a cover up!
