Scientists are returning to one of the most remarkable places on our planet, the so-called Lost City of Atlantis.
An expedition from the University of Washington is to use the submersible Alvin to take the first samples from the formation of 18-storey-high hydrothermal vents in the mid-Atlantic.
Formed by superheated water seeping out of the seafloor, the strange structures are made in a different way from other known hydrothermal vents.
It could be home to new forms of life and it could shed new light on the origin of life on the Earth and on other worlds as well.


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This is great stuff. The fact that we are still discovering new life (as well as those thought to be extinct) and possibly newly forming life, right under our noses, as it were, just shows little we know about our home.

Thanks for the article CW,
The depths of the oceans are a fascinating mystery, and it's exciting when we can actually see some of it.

The Lost City of Atlantis is cool

I just watched a show that said they were finding about 100 new species a year in the ocean There's so much there that we don't know about and so much more to be discovered it's quite exciting when you think about it.

I don't quite understand. What makes them think it's Atlantis?

I think the writer thought that would be an apt "conceit" to use..

QUOTE (Skep_Tick @ Apr 24 2003, 03:38 AM)

I don't quite understand. What makes them think it's Atlantis?

You should know by now that any structure detected under water that remotely appears to be manmade is automatically assumed to be 'Atlantis'. Where've you been?

* - Or Lamura, if it's located in the Pacific Ocean.

**S - Wasn't it Lori who said that Atlantis was everywhere? Boy, I sure do miss her.

QUOTE (Magikman @ Apr 23 2003, 10:12 PM)

**S - Wasn't it Lori who said that Atlantis was everywhere? Boy, I sure do miss her.

@ magik

I remember that exact discussion, and I also remember us challenging her, and she had no defense for her statement.

Those were the days