Phase 3 Jason wrote:
Well put. I would certainly agree that just because it hasn't been found yet is not enough to say it never existed. As you said, new species of wildlife are being discovered even now as we write this.
I guess another thing that I've wondered about was, if it were real, where are all the other stories or references to it. The only one I personally know of is Plato's. It seems like everything else sprung from that. Now, I could be wrong. Im not as knowledgeable on the subject as I'd like to be.
Truly, I hope it's real and will someday be found. Having this hobby and the fascinations and curiosities that I do, I would absolutely be enthralled should it be discovered. I'd even gladly eat my words from when I said I didn't think it was real as it has been described. But oh boy! If one day the pillars of Hercules are unearthed and a lost city is found...I'll jump for joy!
ive heard rumors that supposedly some elemental change in the earth, most likely the melting of the polar caps, will cause atlantis to emerge slightly in 2010, but then again i tracked down that information to starting in a book sylvia brown wrote, and i cant take her seriously anymore.
But the idea of it having something to do with the polar caps is actually a very good basis.
You see, there are rocks, big rocks that are located all over the world that are not from that area, they match nothing of the stone in that area and were too big to simple be brought there by a human being that the times those rocks were dated to would be before such things as cars, or even people.
But what they do MATCH up to are some rocks in the arctic areas.
Which in all theory, is based off the idea of Snowball Earth, a time long before life on earth where it has been said that earth was once entirely covered in ice. Some change in atmosphere caused this ice to melt creating our oceans and lakes and receeded through the centuries to reveal land masses.
The idea is that the water/melting ice itself carried these rocks to the different locations in the world before it receeded and eventually left them sitting where they are today. The tests on these rocks all showed signs of Glacial deposits, not able to be created without a form of ice.
heres an excerpt from a site i pulled up referencing this.
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We have shown how the great glacial deposits in Neoproterozoic rocks world-wide and the strata adjacent to them point to an extraordinary type of climatic event, a "snowball" Earth followed by a briefer but equally noxious ultra-warm "greenhouse" world. There is clear evidence that this sequence happened more than once, perhaps as many as four times between 750 and 580 million years ago. But what caused these calamities in the first place, and why has the biological world been spared such events in more recent geological history? One factor was clearly that the Neoproterozoic sun was weaker by approximately 6%, making the Earth more susceptible to glaciation. The slow warming of our sun since that time might explain why no "snowball" event has occurred since the Neoproterozoic, but the geological evidence is compelling that such glaciations did not occur for at least one billion years prior to the Neoproterozoic when the sun was even cooler. Recent findings by Kirschvink and his former student, David Evans, suggest that global glaciations may have occurred around 2.3 billion years ago, but not in the intervening period.
So if this may have occured 3 or 4 times, and the receeding of such ice was able to carry massive rocks and or create them, its possible in theory that atlantis could somehow have been carried off to another location in some sort of catastrophic event.
One such that i can directly link my theory to is the actual theory of how Atlantis may have been destroyed.
It is said that the people of Atlantis were an advanced race, advanced in intelligence and technology. It has been said that they had discovered a way to control the weather, And it was this that destroyed them because they were messing with it and had no idea that it could not be controlled in the manner they had discovered.
This is where the term "Don't mess with mother nature" we often hear actually comes from.
Now this could not of course be stated as fact, as not even Atlantis itself is a fact. its just another legend/theory.
But if this were applied to the theory of Snowball Earth, And they created a man made catastrophe that had somehow destroyed their race and city, if this catastrophe was connected to the snowball earth theory, it could theoretically be buried in ice somewhere up in the arctic, and with the polar caps always melting as time goes on, it would be interesting to see if that theory of Sylvias (since of course its ONLY a theory regardless of what she claims to be) actually came to fruition.
But then again, Sylvia also wrote in one of her books how she and her sister had lunch in the 60's with an "Alien" in human form. Heh.
