Ireland is Atlantis, says scientist

[Mark]

Someone care to trot out a laundry list of the rest of the supposed facts as attributed to Plato?

One can find the full list in Plato's Critias.

As someone who begins oh so many posts with "Um, actually...", I'm sure you'll understand if I mention that pointing me toward the full text would be the opposite of giving me a brief summary, as requested.

 

[Umbran]

and sorry I didn't realize their was going to be a test.

As I noted, either it's a simple mis-reporting (which happens, no big deal), or it is gobbledigook (which isn't really your fault, as you didn't write it.

As for the test, I'm sorry. I make a bit of a hobby out of pointing out pseudoscientific nonsense for what it is. Science reporting in the modern world is simply abysmal.

I think it's would be possible, at least via physics, the crust sits on liquid magma...

The results of the normal slow processes are things like the Rocky Mountains, the Himalayas, the Marinaras Trench, and the Ring of Fire. The results of an even faster mode that would have accomplished all this in less than a million years would be more plain than the nose on Jimmy Durante's face.

As someone who begins oh so many posts with "Um, actually...", I'm sure you'll understand if I mention that pointing me toward the full text would be the opposite of giving me a brief summary, as requested.

You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

I looked about for a good brief summary, and didn't find one that looked trustworthy. Coupled with the fact that most folks don't know in which works Plato discusses Atlantis, mentioning the title seemed reasonable.

Critias is not terribly long. Neither is Timaeus, the other dialog that mentions Atlantis. The full texts can be found here. I didn't report them before, because they have annoying pop-ups, and I wanted to find a better version.

 

[Mark]

You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

I looked about for a good brief summary, and didn't find one that looked trustworthy. Coupled with the fact that most folks don't know in which works Plato discusses Atlantis, mentioning the title seemed reasonable.

Critias is not terribly long. Neither is Timaeus, the other dialog that mentions Atlantis. The full texts can be found here. I didn't report them before, because they have annoying pop-ups, and I wanted to find a better version.

I'd have been just as happy with your "best recollection" as anything else. Thanks for the link!

 

[Ferret]

I think I saw one in a news paper, theres a great flat clump of land in the meditaranian thats just below sea level. That is my atlantis.

 

[Torm]

Friend of mine pointed out to me today that this scientist is off his nut if he claims to be the first to say Ireland=Atlantis. It was in Disney's Atlantis! Towards the beginning, he's talking about the reasons Ireland might be Atlantis while playing with a chalkboard, then realizes that one letter is off, and Ireland becomes Iceland, but still!

Also of note, the middle A in the logo for that movie is one of the chevrons from Stargate. And now, Sci-Fi has made Stargate: Atlantis. Hmmmm.....

 

[Viking Bastard]

Pff! Everybody knows Thule is Atlantis.