# Atlantis found by satellite photos? HELL-O!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 7, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021 "2004-06-07T01:15:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/1 "2004-06-07T01:15:13Z")
Here’s a shock: [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3766863.stm) 2 large temples…check. Concentric canals…check. Copper & other metals common in the area…check. Frequent flooding…check. Well well well. Perhaps not nonsense after all. ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/2 "2004-06-07T02:19:49Z")
But, um, not an island. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/3 "2004-06-07T02:42:16Z")
> [@](#): > > Mr Wickboldt added that the Greeks might have confused an Egyptian word referring to a coastline with one meaning “island” during transmission of the Atlantis story. Interesting stuff. Remember that Troy used to be “just nonsense.” Same for Ubar. Not saying this is Atlantis, but the find is mysterious enough on its own… ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/4 "2004-06-07T03:15:41Z")
_Told_ you!!! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/5 "2004-06-07T03:21:51Z")
The location’s about right- I’ve heard that its thought that the reason that the people in the Basque regions of upper Spain and France speak a language so totally unrelated to other languages is that they all migrated there from Atlantis when the flooding occurred.\* \*Note: The only cite I have for this is a friend of my Spanish teacher. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/6 "2004-06-07T04:04:19Z")
I’m having a little trouble accepting that there are “rings” in the photo. I certainly don’t see any (other than the ones that have drawn on there, obviously). This could be like Lowell “seeing” canals on Mars. ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/7 "2004-06-07T06:09:24Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > But, um, not an island. From the article: > [@](#): > > Mr Wickboldt added that the Greeks might have confused an Egyptian word referring to a coastline with one meaning “island” during transmission of the Atlantis story. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/8 "2004-06-07T11:42:29Z")
If you dig circular canals around an area, the land in the middle is an island. Artificial, but still an island. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/9 "2004-06-07T11:54:35Z")
I see one ring, or rather a section of one, but I don’t see the concentric rings that they’re talking about. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/10 "2004-06-07T11:55:28Z")
> [@monica](#): > > The location’s about right To me, the most amazing thing about Atlantis is that it movies. People keep ‘finding’ it in totally different locations. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/11 "2004-06-07T13:55:36Z")
While Troy turned out to be exactly where people had always said it was. But I’ll hold off judgement here until we have more data from somebody who isn’t overplaying his hand in an effort to get funding and permission to dig on public land. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/12 "2004-06-07T14:11:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > To me, the most amazing thing about Atlantis is that it movies. People keep ‘finding’ it in totally different locations. It movies because it has such cute little footies. ---
**Author:** ![Odinoneeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@Odinoneeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odinoneeye)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/13 "2004-06-07T15:03:00Z")
The decendents of Atlantis are living on Titan, in a forest, with a creature in a turtleneck sweater. Didn’t you ever see Fire Maidens of Outer Space? ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/14 "2004-06-07T16:50:55Z")
Hmmmm Blurry images… check Indistinct details… check Wild speculation… check Paging **SeeThruArt**! ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/15 "2004-06-07T17:16:34Z")
> [@Chairman Pow](#): > > It movies because it has such cute little footies. DAMMIT! :smack: The remarkable part about this mythical continent/island/city/civilization is that everybody keeps finding it in different places all around the Atlantic. I’ve never seen any of the plethora of movies about it. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/16 "2004-06-07T20:31:58Z")
This is clearly a case where more study will either debunk or prove the claims. Certainly, there’s enough evidence of at least one ring to do a study. The one ring could be an old meteor crater. ---
**Author:** ![paperbackwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@paperbackwriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/paperbackwriter)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/17 "2004-06-07T20:42:09Z")
From the OP’s linked article: > [@](#): > > Tony Wilkinson, an expert in the use of remote sensing in archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, UK, told BBC News Online: "A lot of the problems come with interpretations. I can see something there and I could imagine that one could interpret it in various ways. But you’ve got several leaps of faith here. > We use the imagery to recognise certain types of imprint on the ground and then do [in the field] verification on them. Based on what we see on the ground we make an interpretation. > What we need here is a date range. Otherwise, you’re just dealing with morphology. I can’t even see more than a partial match to the legend. And even that is a stretch. Also, why leap to the conclusion that it is Atlantis, as opposed to some mound builder-type tribe or any of a hundred other peoples? ---
**Author:** ![Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Helen\_s\_Eidolon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Helen_s_Eidolon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/18 "2004-06-07T22:26:57Z")
As regards the quote from the article: It’s been a while since I read the reference in Plato, but why in the world would Plato have gotten this story from Egyptian? ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/19 "2004-06-07T23:44:36Z")
Also from the article linked in the OP: > [@](#): > > The rectangles: What interpretation can be put on the satellite images? What rectangles? All I see are JPEG artifacts. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![WernhamHogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a587f6/32.png) [@WernhamHogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WernhamHogg)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2004, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/20 "2004-06-07T23:48:03Z")
> [@LaurAnge](#): > > As regards the quote from the article: > > It’s been a while since I read the reference in Plato, but why in the world would Plato have gotten this story from Egyptian? Because the story originated in Egypt. [http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/sp/epsaas/epsaasPlato.html](http://www.auburn.edu/~downejm/sp/epsaas/epsaasPlato.html) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021.md?page=2)