Chill out. I'm just kidding with you.

You need to step back from your computer, stretch your arms in the air and eat a banana. It will control your stress. Oh, and pull the stick out of your...

My original post wasn't necessarily about if Atlantis is/war real or not. It was about if a place like Atlantis could have existed and washed away or if it could happen.

Yes. Atlantis could have existed. No one believed in Homer's story of Troy. Look, we found it! And six other cities on top of it!

Hey maybe in a thousand years people will be telling stories of the Lost City of New Orleans.

so they believe at this point, but tomorrow it may be something else, i see your point, we are finding what we once thought wasn't there actually is, who knows, tomorrow we might find the garden of eden(or whats left of it)

so they believe at this point, but tomorrow it may be something else, i see your point, we are finding what we once thought wasn't there actually is, who knows, tomorrow we might find the garden of eden(or whats left of it)

I agree Gaurdsman, but all myths sprout from slivers of truth.

Does anybody have a link or something to what Plato actually said about Atlantis? It would be greatly appreciated.

I'm a little confused...is it a story Plato wrote or like a paper? And when you say edited do you mean differeations in translations? I'll check google but IDK what sites will have the most accurate information.

I don't think a city submerged in water is unlikely, but it is unlikely that a place would have super tech that no one besides one person knew bout.

Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe it's not a island....

What is your proof for any of this?

Not only is there no geological evidence of a huge landmass ever existing between North America and Europe on a reasonable timescale (basically, in the past few million years), a map of the Atlantic Ocean contradicts your claim. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean is the subduction vent, where oceanic crust is pulled down into the mantle and re-cycled.

Moreover, you claimed that Hydrogen technology resulted in the complete sinking of most of the Atlantean land mass. When something moves downward into Earth's gravitational field, it exchanges a degree of its potential energy for kinetic energy, much like a ball that weighs 3 kilograms up 10 meters above the ground exchanges the gravitational potential energy MGH (or, 3 X 9.8 X 10 = 294 Joules) for kinetic energy in the equation MGH = 1/2MV^2.

Now imagine an entire continent, as you claim, collapsing 10,000 feet (the average depth of the Atlantic is two miles, and deep near the subduction vent). It is going to release an INCREDIBLY LARGE amount of kinetic energy, right into the oceans and the ocean floor. Believe me, the destruction of the city of Atlantis would be the least of everyone's problems; that much energy released into the oceans and ocean basin would probably be enough to boil off a significant amount of seawater as superhot steam, killing everything on Earth. That's not to mention the creation of the
Mother of All Tsunamis. Remember the Asian Tsunami in 2004? That was caused by the collapse of a small volcanic island into the sea. Imagine the devastation of an entire continent plunging into the ocean.

Second off, Incan civilization had little to do with Mayan civilization, since the two co-existed for only a brief period of time. The heyday of the Mayan civilization was from 250 to 900 A.D., followed by a quick collapse. Incan civilization peaked in 1400-1532, when it was conquered quickly by Francis Pizarro and the Spaniards.
Moreover, neither civilization shows anything resembling what you would call "tools of technology far beyond modern science." Neither used any stock animals (such as horses), and only the Mayans had a civilization with the Written Word. Neither also shows any shared cultural elements that would presumably appear there from their integration into a highly advanced civilization with world reach. Neither civilization, in fact, used any form of iron weaponry, either.

As for the "Mayan Count," I presume you are talking about the Calendar that predicts the end of an Age in 2010? You can choose to believe it, but there is no proof for its accuracy. Moreover, as for the supposed hieroglyphics, I am curious. I have never heard any serious archaeologist point out pictures of people holding 'advanced technology,' but you could argue what "advanced technology" should even look like.

check this out;ancient egyptian electric lamps - http://www.crystalinks.com/egyptscience.html

The study of science and medicine were closely linked to religion as seen in many of the ancient rituals. The "pouring" and "anointing" we see in so many Egyptian works is the application of electromagnetic forces and not the application of actual fluids.

That website supports it's arguments very poorly. For instance:
For which it provides no evidence at all.

LOL, who needs evidence when you got faith?

What they think might be true, or it might not be true; I don't know of any way of actually proving what did or did not happen. Unless you can travel back in time, or look into the past with "retro-cognition" or you just happen to have lived in ancient Egypt in a past life and "remember" what was going on back then.

I know this guy who thinks the pyramids were built using telekinesis. He told me that he had a past life experience and that’s how he know. Can I verify that? No. Dose it mean it is true or false? No. So in my book it's all-good, since my priorities lie in the here and now. At least for the time being anyway.

Dan.

This is the thread that never completely dies, just pops up every few days.

We're already starting to repeat ourselves, so I'll just make my stance clear. There is no evidence that any type of advanced island civilization existing before 3000 B.C., and no records of any after, that matches the descriptions of Plato. We have the Minoans, but they are not the Platean Atlantis.

perhaps plato was speaking of an idea rather than a real place....like we speak of 'shangri-la' today as the place we all want to find and the place where we will find perfect peace and harmony.

If Plato was speaking of a real place then perhaps he had heard of a legend of human civilisation existing not thousands of years ago but millions. This earth is believed to be 4.5 billion years old. Why could not human society have existed during and perhaps even before the age of the dinosaurs? A seismic event or perhaps a strike from a meteor may have changed the very shape of the planet moving the poles,folding and churning the surface,creating massive flooded areas.

aw.....atlantis meddled with hydrogen tech,chaotic hydro stuff? so what do u people think atlantis is advanced enough to do all that? if they are advanced enough why do they have not foreseen the effects of thier experiments ??

i mean like us, when the nuclear power plants were invented almost half of the world already foreseen the effects or the radiation?

just my thoughts >_<

I assume you have read the story of atlantis?

You hear so much Bs on this form, it's hard sometimes. I want to scream read your history, use goggle wkae up.. people believe some crazy stuff.