Ireland is Atlantis, says scientist

[mythusmage]

The guy is wrong, Ireland is Mu. I just don't see the ancient Irish as a bunch of hoity-toity squid worshippers with bad taste in metal-wear. 'Sides, when's the last time you saw firbolg in a story on Atlantis?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Make up your damn mind, scientist! Was Atlantis Cuba or Ireland?

I always thought it was Antarctica... Plato also said it was in the center of the ocean, and Antarctica is smack dab in the center of the world's ocean.

 

[Umbran]

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.

 

[RenoOfTheTurks]

Here's another recent theory: Atlantis is in southern Spain. Plato confused the Egyptian term for coastline, thinking it meant an island. A German has found a place in Spain where the remains of temples and concentric circles are close matches with what Plato described.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3766863.stm

 

[Nightfall]

Nah. I'm Atlantis. (Hey it's a better mania than some others to think I'm a lost civilization! )

 

[Ranger REG]

I always thought it was Antarctica... Plato also said it was in the center of the ocean, and Antarctica is smack dab in the center of the world's ocean.

Well, they once said that Antarctica did not originally located in the current earth's axis.

BTW, isn't earth due for a major axial shift?

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Well, they once said that Antarctica did not originally located in the current earth's axis.

That is also true... I can't find the book but I will continue to look for it, but it's quite interesting it contains maps of Antarctica without the ice. The maps are dated around the 1500's and are incredibly accurate. Of course no one realize how accurate they where until the 1950's when Antarctica, without the ice, was mapped via sonar… Before that time modern man had no idea how much land was actually under all the ice.

So how did man without modern technology ever map Antarctica without it’s ice…? The answer was theorized that Antarctica was not always in its current location and that in the pass it was above the artic circle and that it contained none of the ice.

It was also theorized that the build up of ice at the poles has lead the earth’s crust to spin all at once, plate tectonic shift.. This pulled the normal heavy ice to warmer climates where it melted away and since Atlantis/Antarctica to it’s modern day icy resting place and proof of Atlantis was hide from the modern world under miles of ice.

All of the above was from memory... I'll try to find a link or something.

Edit: found a link... The book is called Fingerprints of the Gods

BTW, isn't earth due for a major axial shift?

No probably not... Consider it the benefit of global warming melting some of those icecaps.

 

[Thotas]

Gotta chime in with Hellhound on this one. The fact that depictions in the artwork from the ruins match Plato's description of the plants and animals found, certain customs and even favored color schemes of the Atlanteans clinches it as the origin of the story for me until someone finds something really concrete. Besides, the indications that the Thera explosion was also the origin of the tale of the Plagues of Egypt is just too precious. It means Atlantis fell on the Egyptians -- so wonky, but probably true!

 

[Umbran]

BTW, isn't earth due for a major axial shift?

Of it's magnetic poles, yes. But not of the axis around which it spins.

So how did man without modern technology ever map Antarctica without it’s ice…? The answer was theorized that Antarctica was not always in its current location and that in the pass it was above the artic circle and that it contained none of the ice.

It would have had to be so within recorded history. There is no evidence that this was the case. In fact, the preponderance of the evidence is that Antarctica has been in the polar region for millions of years - longer than the human race has existed. There's no evidence I'm aware of that it has been bare of ice in the past 10,000 years or so, and before that, humans didn't have technology for accurate mapping.

It was also theorized that the build up of ice at the poles has lead the earth’s crust to spin all at once, plate tectonic shift.. This pulled the normal heavy ice to warmer climates where it melted away and since Atlantis/Antarctica to it’s modern day icy resting place and proof of Atlantis was hide from the modern world under miles of ice.

Sorry to say, but either you aren't doing the best job of relating the theory, or the theory is bunk.

The Earth's crust has spun all at once since it hardened a few billion years ago. The shifting of the tectonic plates is a separate phenomenon.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Sorry to say, but either you aren't doing the best job of relating the theory, or the theory is bunk.

Well, as I said I'm going from memory and I read the book about 7 years ago... and sorry I didn't realize their was going to be a test.

The Earth's crust has spun all at once since it hardened a few billion years ago. The shifting of the tectonic plates is a separate phenomenon.

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

Now I'm not saying it happened, just telling you what I remembered from a book. Interesting read, but you have to have an open mind, or in a case like me easily amused, so it's not for everyone.