Atlantis has been found!

Atlantis has been found, but how dissapointing... it's actually just Ireland :rolleyes:

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Reuters

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Atlantis, the legendary island nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.

Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed some 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a cataclysmic natural disaster and sank beneath the waves.

Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements, geography, and landscape of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly.

"I am amazed no one has come up with this before, it's incredible," he told Reuters.

"Just like Atlantis, Ireland is 300 miles long, 200 miles wide, and widest across the middle. They both have a central plain surrounded by mountains.

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Yeah, saw that on Yahoo! New's yesterday. Was kinda disappointed too :p (haha val). The only grife I have with it is he doesn't seem to ACTUALLY prove his theory, he just mention's a few similiarities.

At least Ennis can have another excuse to party :drink:

And as for proof: kind of hard to validate, when it's 11500 years ago, and we are still not certain of the Sphinx's origions, anything between 4 and 7 thousand years old??????

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Originally posted here by foxyloxley
At least Ennis can have another excuse to party :drink:

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Heh knowing ennis he will have a party reguardless if he has a reason or not.
eventually someone will find all the answers to the sphinx and if Atlantis was truly found.

how sad! no crystal technology, no genetic enginnering...just beer

...and it wasn't a natural disaster that overtook them, it was the
invention of alcohol.
:cool:

Honestly, how can anyone in 350 BC know that something existed 11 thousand years in the past? I was attracted to the headline though. :) Thanks Negative! The Atlantians must have used a particle beam to project information in a Greek's skull before they perished. A message projected through time detailing their existance. :)

So that leaves only one question...How'd they get Ireland back out from under the ocean? ;)

All Hail the Mighty Atlantisonians, true lords of the earth and superior beings to all others on this meagre 'planet'.

Money into my PayPal account or all dissenters will be crushed.

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How'd they get Ireland back out from under the ocean?

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All the empty beer kegs? :D

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Originally posted here by AngelicKnight
So that leaves only one question...How'd they get Ireland back out from under the ocean? ;)

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They held up a bottle of booze on a stick and fished them out.

I'm about as sober as a Mick gets. :)

I plan on suing you gore for being un-PC and using the derogatory term 'Mick', expect a letter soon from my solicitor, Mick O'Hara.

Hmm........

"scientist", "Geographer" :D

Same size, same shape (as written by someone several thousand years after the event and yet more thousands of years from today?) so it must be true..............hey the next thing is the Swedes will be finding WMDs in Iraq?..............anyone out there heard of continental drift, glaciation, that sort of stuff?

Just look at the bloody geology for heaven's sake................. :rolleyes: no where near feasible.........errrrrrrrr like about one third of Ireland geologically matches Sotland, and the other two thirds, the UK.

Hey Gore, how about you and I go over to Sweden and relieve this guy of his stash of 'shrooms..............they sound like real good gear?

just a thought

The Altantians were so advanced, they shifted dimensions. They are actually laughing at us at the moment. Since they see the extra dimensional propterties, they also see us in a lower dimension. Their only import from out world is Guiness. They weren't "lost", they got the hell out and entered the "Mick" zone.

Actually, i heard it was the whole world. A comet hit about 9000 years ago it caused the people of "Atlantis" who were seafarers and lived only on the coast to die while the much more primitive people , who lived in higher elevations , lived on.

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Actually, i heard it was the whole world. A comet hit about 9000 years ago it caused the people of "Atlantis" who were seafarers and lived only on the coast to die while the much more primitive people , who lived in higher elevations , lived on.

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Absolutely no chance whatsoever mate....................comets are big buggers, it would take millions of years to recover from a hit by one of those :eek: It is a feasible explanation for the sudden demise of the dinosaurs, but not Atlantis.

Seriously, the best explanation that I have heard is that Atlantis was the Minoan Cretan civilisation. There is a pretty big caldera in the area. The theory is that the centre of the island was a huge volcanic plug that suddenly popped it's cork rather like Krakatoa.

A "caldera" is the bits left when a volcanic island explodes.

;)

Isnt it also possible that like a lot of other old story's. Atlantis is noting but a story that has just been picked up as fact instead of just a fable? Hay maybe in another 10,000 years some one will be able to claim that they have found the lost geeks of "internet"?

Atlantis is a fact and anyone Irish could have told you where is was. That is if we weren't too embarressed about how we flooded the island which the all important point. Atlantis did not sink and it was not swamped by a huge wave. The flood that drowned Atlantis started in the middle of the island. It all came about when some fool dropped a test tube of new nanobots , that were developped to replicate any substance they came in contact with, into a barrel of a slighly alcoholic health drink. The nanobots went into instant overdrive and kept producing this dark drink till they finally died of alcohol poisioning. Any of the few survivors were too drunk to give a coherant story of what happened (being too drunk) and so the legend of the lost city of atlantis was born.
The good thing is we managed to save the recipe of the health drink :) and are now exporting it all over the world :)).