Re: [NetBehaviour] Google Atlantis (fwd)

2009-02-21 Thread Geert Dekkers
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

Re: [NetBehaviour] Google Atlantis (fwd)

2009-02-21 Thread james of jwm-art net
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 }

Re: [NetBehaviour] Google Atlantis (fwd)

2009-02-21 Thread Geert Dekkers
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

[NetBehaviour] Google Atlantis (fwd)

2009-02-20 Thread { brad brace }
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