Which also doesn't make much sense. If it's an artifact, why not even
it out. There'd be no "obscuring the truth" in correcting a calculable
error.
Anyway -- here's the article in the *ahem* "Bastion of Truth"
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Atlantis-revealed--just-l
Hi Brad,
According to that Great British Bastion of Truth, "The Daily Mail",
Google says it is an artifact of their data collection methods: the
boats which used sonar to map the sea bed, travelled in straight lines.
Which raises some interesting questions...
James.
On 20/2/2009, "{ brad brace }
But the scale doesn't seem to make much sense. Mapped against the
number of degrees latitude/longitude, the object would be around 220 -
230 kms square (about 140 miles square), with each discernable node of
the grid measuring at least a tenth of that. Isn't it just too big to
be a city?
G
According to a British aeronautical engineer, Google Ocean,
an extension of Google Earth, has found what many humans
could not: the lost city of Atlantis. A near-perfect
rectangular grid has shown up about 620 miles off the coast
of northwest Africa, near the Canary Islands and
it looks like it's