Atlantis? Yes? No?

[Meat Puppet]

Are you kidding? It’s obviously the remains of a former landing pad for intergalactic spinning ovals.

[GameMasta]

Are you kidding? It’s obviously the remains of a former landing pad for intergalactic spinning ovals.

Well, yeah, of course. Didn't Aliens rule Atlantis?

[escobert]

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Google dismisses 'Atlantis find'

[Caraliz]

Oh snap.

[Goldenboko]

The only real mention of Atlantis is one line in the journal of a greek philosopher. So we know nothing about it, yet conjecture seems to run very high.

Even if it were real, so what? An island sank due to vulcanic activity, big deal. The roman civilization rose to great scientific heights, then fell into the dark ages. Just because an island had some decent architecture doesn't make it a big spectacle.

Assuming it predates what we expected from civilization at the time, of course it's a big spectacle, it'd re-write a section of human history. =P

[trancekuja]

Another government cover up...

[Aerith's Knight]

The only real mention of Atlantis is one line in the journal of a greek philosopher. So we know nothing about it, yet conjecture seems to run very high.

Even if it were real, so what? An island sank due to vulcanic activity, big deal. The roman civilization rose to great scientific heights, then fell into the dark ages. Just because an island had some decent architecture doesn't make it a big spectacle.

Assuming it predates what we expected from civilization at the time, of course it's a big spectacle, it'd re-write a section of human history. =P

Expectation is a very sad and relative term. Seeing as the greeks were unimaginably far ahead of the tribes in western europe, or whatever. The rise and fall of empires has been a trend for thousands of years, from Babylon to Rome, and everytime science degraded in the falls.

It didn't rewrite anything in my opinion, because if that was true, we would've rewritten history dozens of times.

To put it simply, without any actual data of that time, you can't expect anything, simply because you don't know anything about it. Maybe an empire rose and fell there, maybe not. But how would it effect us really? It's not like knowledge about Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Aztecs or the Greeks have really helped us in the last 100 years. I've never seen an historian work at NASA or a research department.

Finding out it existed, would be a spectacle at first, but when it becomes part of history nobody will care anymore.

[cloud_doll]

of course of course of course atlantis exists!

[trancekuja]

of course of course of course atlantis exists!

Yeah yeah yeah!