# 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:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**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, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/21 "2004-06-07T23:52:59Z")
Like many legends, by the time they are done reducing the legend to match the facts, there will be nothing interesting about it. So there used to be a place that got flooded. Shrug. The Atlantis legends as we know them, [the ones popularized by Ignatius Donelly](http://www.sacred-texts.com/atl/ataw/) about a high-tech civilization in ancient times that sank to the bottom of the sea, is no more true for finding an ancient city that may have inspired the Platonic allegory that inspired Donelly. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/22 "2004-06-08T01:11:12Z")
> [@Evil Captor](#): > > Certainly, there’s enough evidence of at least one ring to do a study. The one ring could be an old meteor crater. No, silly! It’s: “One ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Llama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a698b9/32.png) [@The\_Llama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Llama)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/23 "2004-06-08T01:28:12Z")
> [@](#): > > Plato’s writings closely resembled attacks on Egypt, Cyprus and the Levant during the 12th Century BC by mysterious raiders known as the Sea People. [Cartman] My kingdom is FOUND. We will reign again!!![\Cartman] ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/24 "2004-06-08T06:13:39Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > To me, the most amazing thing about Atlantis is that it movies. People keep ‘finding’ it in totally different locations. There’s a [topical _Cat & Girl_](http://www.catandgirl.com/index.cgi) today. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/25 "2004-06-08T15:31:08Z")
The article in _Antiquity_ - which is available [here](http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/kuhne/) - only mentions the rectangular structures in Andalusia, not the supposed concentric circles. The author, [Rainer W. Kühne](http://www.beepworld.de/members62/rainerkuehne/), is actually a physicist, who has himself admitted that [‘mainstream scientists have regarded me as a crackpot for the last twelve years’](http://forums.atlantisrising.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000808.html). ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2004, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021/26 "2004-06-08T16:35:18Z")
VP Richard Cheney’s satellite photo experts analyzed the same photos. Instead of ancient temples, Cheney said the photos “clearly, without a doubt” showed terrorist training facilities and definite evidence of signs of intention of preparations for weapons of mass destruction planning program activity. Imperial Attorney General John Ashcroft, in a simultaneous press conference, pointed out that parts of the huge rock formations clearly resembled a naked breast. Ashcroft announced he had hired artist Christo to cover the immense stone breast with 7.3 miles of nylon taffeta fabric. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/atlantis-found-by-satellite-photos-hell-o/249021.md?page=1)