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Geologist reckons Ireland is Atlantis

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  • #32
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Zamboni wrote: »
    I thought they already found it in Pegasus?

    shoo nerd shoooo :D


  • #33
    Zamboni
    Registered Users Posts: 4,305 ✭✭✭Zamboni


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    shoo nerd shoooo :D

    I'm afraid you'll have to shoo too as you got the reference. :D


  • #34
    W.Shakes-Beer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,975 ✭✭✭W.Shakes-Beer


    Arnold!?....Who's Arnold!?


  • #35
    4leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    I remember watching some UFO crap on the Science channel and there is meant to be a mythical island steeped in UFO and Atlantis myths just off our west coast called Hy Brasil.

    It is actually the place Brazil got its name from, well, so the programmes said.

    http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricmysteries.com%2Fhy-brasil-the-other-atlantis&ei=FNNjTsvyCsu0hAfv5t2nCg&usg=AFQjCNHXJ4UiDCHUrJn3V200Vo9cBRSJ3Q


  • #36
    threestripes
    Registered Users Posts: 42 ✭threestripes


    surely whatever dwellings and stuff were ever there would have dissolved in all that salt water, so not a big pile wil ever be found, dam sexy brine


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  • #37
    DirtyBollox
    Registered Users Posts: 7,674 ✭✭✭DirtyBollox


    i'll just drop this here

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkA216RL4Y


  • #38
    4leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,940 ✭✭✭4leto


    DirtyBollox wrote: »
    i'll just drop this here

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECkA216RL4Y


    Already thanked

    But I spewed my tea

    Fuvking classic:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    And its apparently true


  • #39
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    The___________ wrote: »
    Whoever chose the font for that blog needs a slap!

    Nothing wrong with the font. It's the colour thats the problem!


  • #40
    py2006
    Registered Users Posts: 9,847 ✭✭✭py2006


    4leto wrote: »
    I remember watching some UFO crap on the Science channel and there is meant to be a mythical island steeped in UFO and Atlantis myths just off our west coast called Hy Brasil.

    It is actually the place Brazil got its name from, well, so the programmes said.

    http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricmysteries.com%2Fhy-brasil-the-other-atlantis&ei=FNNjTsvyCsu0hAfv5t2nCg&usg=AFQjCNHXJ4UiDCHUrJn3V200Vo9cBRSJ3Q

    Never heard that one before!! Fascinating!


  • #41
    ruadhri44
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭ruadhri44


    Actually more than like Atlantis was the island of Santorini, then called Thera in the Mediterranean Ocean about 100 KMs south of Greece. It was destoryed by an tidal wave and volcanic eruption. The description matches Atlantis. multicoloured bricked ruins, they worshipped the bull, they believed their civilization was founded by the giant Atlas.

    Also the distance having it out in the Atlantic Ocean is believed to be a mistranslation of anicent Greek and the correct translation would have it in the location of Santorini.


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  • #42
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Phill Ewinn wrote: »
    nothing new there OP. England is most likely Atlantis. I doubt that people would differnetiate the two islands.

    So the Atlantis Isles became the British Isles?....:D


  • #43
    ruadhri44
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭ruadhri44


    Carefull. Theres no such place as the British Isles. Its Ireland and Britain or The Western European Archipeligo.


  • #44
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    ruadhri44 wrote: »
    Carefull. Theres no such place as the British Isles. Its Ireland and Britain or The Western European Archipeligo.

    I prefer the British Isles I am use to that one. That doesn't make me feel less Irish, but I wish it made me feel more British.


  • #45
    Doc Ruby
    Registered Users Posts: 3,956 ✭✭✭Doc Ruby


    Yes, we are the most awesome country.


  • #46
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    4leto wrote: »
    I remember watching some UFO crap on the Science channel and there is meant to be a mythical island steeped in UFO and Atlantis myths just off our west coast called Hy Brasil.

    It is actually the place Brazil got its name from, well, so the programmes said.

    http://www.google.ie/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCIQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fhistoricmysteries.com%2Fhy-brasil-the-other-atlantis&ei=FNNjTsvyCsu0hAfv5t2nCg&usg=AFQjCNHXJ4UiDCHUrJn3V200Vo9cBRSJ3Q

    There was a programme on TG4 a while back, where a few Aran Islanders claimed they could see the HyBrasil island manifest on the horizon. I'm sure there's a scientific explanation (or they could have just been a bit batty) but its a fascinating myth nonetheless.


  • #47
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    JerryHandbag wrote: »
    There was a programme on TG4 a while back, where a few Aran Islanders claimed they could see the HyBrasil island manifest on the horizon. I'm sure there's a scientific explanation (or they could have just been a bit batty) but its a fascinating myth nonetheless.

    A lot of mirages would appear in the ocean and if the Islanders would have heard the legend, that would explain the mirage.

    I just hope there is oil there and lots of it made from the decayed bodies of sunken Atlantis heads. OK a bit more time needed, but..


  • #48
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Pretty sure Brazil got its name from its early major export, a dye made from brazilwood.


  • #49
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Ireland Atlantis?

    Well, it is a land of fiction and fable...

    so yeah, i can see that.


  • #50
    ruadhri44
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭ruadhri44


    At the risk of wandering off the subject the term was dropped by Britain in the 1970s.


  • #51
    beans
    Registered Users Posts: 1,885 ✭✭✭beans


    This chap reckons that all of civilization as we know it came from Irish origins, and throws Atlantis in the mix for good measure. We basically taught the Chinese how to make gunpowder, built the pyramids while back-packing in Egypt, and then let the Britons into our secrets of empire and subjugation, which was probably a bad idea...


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  • #52
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    beans wrote: »
    This chap reckons that all of civilization as we know it came from Irish origins, and throws Atlantis in the mix for good measure. We basically taught the Chinese how to make gunpowder, built the pyramids while back-packing in Egypt, and then let the Britons into our secrets of empire and subjugation, which was probably a bad idea...

    He is also the dogiest looking bastard on the interweb. Its all bollocks, there was no atlantis, it was a literary construct


  • #53
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    We should change the name of the country to Atlants immediately and have a fish as our national emblem and change the national flag colours to green white and goldfish.

    I wonder where they buried the stargate???


  • #54
    Capt'n Midnight
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    Biggins wrote: »
    The weight of latest evident says that its possible a island/small location island in the Mediterranean, off Sicily.
    Possibly even Cyprus (http://discoveryofatlantis.com/).
    Don't suppose we will have ever 100% proof.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoan_eruption One hundred cubic kilometers of ejecta so they say.

    would kinda wipe out any evidence of earlier concentric calderas

    if you swap units then the plains of Crete are about the right size too


  • #55
    44leto
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    Balmed Out wrote: »
    Pretty sure Brazil got its name from its early major export, a dye made from brazilwood.

    You are more then likely right as I heard that on a UFO programme that Brazil got its name from Hy Brasil,,Or which came first the name of the tree or the country.

    I am not a believer in "Atlantis" as such, I would go for the Minoan theory and Homer was a great story teller, which is kind of obvious as we still hear his stories today.

    EDIT For those interested, there is actually a Doc about the destruction of the Minoans on BBC4 tonight at 10.00 "Ancient apocalypse" and see does it convince you that this were the Atlantis myth came from.


  • #56
    .SONIC.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭.SONIC.


    i was in atlantic city last year, it was feckin ****e.


  • #57
    ruadhri44
    Registered Users Posts: 82 ✭✭ruadhri44


    beans wrote: »
    This chap reckons that all of civilization as we know it came from Irish origins, and throws Atlantis in the mix for good measure. We basically taught the Chinese how to make gunpowder, built the pyramids while back-packing in Egypt, and then let the Britons into our secrets of empire and subjugation, which was probably a bad idea...


    God Almighty, its a great pity we taught everybody else then and kept none of that knowledge for ourselves.


  • #58
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,568 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    For myself, I think if such a place did exist in the past, the Antarctic would be a likely place.
    Why?

    The American National Science Foundation has acknowledged that several indicators could be pointing that direction.
    These include:

    * A commonly shared legend of an advanced civilization destroyed by water—as evidenced in the myth of Atlantis and the Great Flood of Genesis.

    * The discovery of a mysterious "anomaly" in Antarctica.

    * The use of American military personnel to construct a secret base near Lake Vostok in East Antarctica.

    * The existence of at least one volcano that some believe could melt the ice cap and wreak a global cataclysm.
    (Whats happening this very year? SEE HERE)

    * It was the volcanic destruction of Thira - modern-day Santorin - that inspired the ancient Greek philosopher Plato to pen the original story of Atlantis nine hundred years later. However, Platos fourth century B.C. account claimed that Atlantis sunk nine thousand years earlier. Taken literally - and combined with recent revelations - Platos ancient clues suggest that Antarctica may, in fact, prove to be the site of the legendary Atlantis.

    * The VERY ancient Piri Reis' map - which shows an ancient land at the south pole which until recently we (in modern times) couldn't prove was there.
    Now we can and hello, there under the ice is the very lands which ancient people knew about hundreds, possibly thousands of years ago!
    Combined with earth-crust displacement theory, it could be very well that an ancient land (of some kind which DOES exist under all the present day south pole ice), could be the original place that many myths and legends have been created around.
    Note: Prior to the supposed sudden shift of the Earths crust previously, at around the end of the last Ice Age in the northern hemisphere, the climate of Antarctica would have been stable, perhaps for a great deal longer than 10,000 years. And if the facts are right in suggesting that Antarctica’s latitude in that epoch had been about 2000 miles (30 degrees of arc) further north than it is today, it would have enjoyed a Mediterranean to sub-tropical climate.


  • #59
    opinion guy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭opinion guy


    Biggins wrote: »
    For myself, I think if such a place did exist in the past, the Antarctic would be a likely place.

    Sure did ya not see that documentary about ....what was it called now again....aliens vs other aliens with humans in the middle


  • #60
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Biggins wrote: »
    For myself, I think if such a place did exist in the past, the Antarctic would be a likely place.
    Why?

    The American National Science Foundation has acknowledged that several indicators could be pointing that direction.
    These include:

    * A commonly shared legend of an advanced civilization destroyed by water—as evidenced in the myth of Atlantis and the Great Flood of Genesis.

    * The discovery of a mysterious "anomaly" in Antarctica.

    * The use of American military personnel to construct a secret base near Lake Vostok in East Antarctica.

    * The existence of at least one volcano that some believe could melt the ice cap and wreak a global cataclysm.
    (Whats happening this very year? SEE HERE)

    * It was the volcanic destruction of Thira - modern-day Santorin - that inspired the ancient Greek philosopher Plato to pen the original story of Atlantis nine hundred years later. However, Platos fourth century B.C. account claimed that Atlantis sunk nine thousand years earlier. Taken literally - and combined with recent revelations - Platos ancient clues suggest that Antarctica may, in fact, prove to be the site of the legendary Atlantis.

    * The VERY ancient Piri Reis' map - which shows an ancient land at the south pole which until recently we (in modern times) couldn't prove was there.
    Now we can and hello, there under the ice is the very lands which ancient people knew about hundreds, possibly thousands of years ago!
    Combined with earth-crust displacement theory, it could be very well that an ancient land (of some kind which DOES exist under all the present day south pole ice), could be the original place that many myths and legends have been created around.
    Note: Prior to the supposed sudden shift of the Earths crust previously, at around the end of the last Ice Age in the northern hemisphere, the climate of Antarctica would have been stable, perhaps for a great deal longer than 10,000 years. And if the facts are right in suggesting that Antarctica’s latitude in that epoch had been about 2000 miles (30 degrees of arc) further north than it is today, it would have enjoyed a Mediterranean to sub-tropical climate.

    I read that link.

    What a lot of tripe.

    "what if, what if"

    Sounds like some over active boyscouts at a campfire.

    Bull****


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  • #61
    LH Pathe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,515 ✭✭✭LH Pathe


    can't believe what my bleary eyes are reading, wading through tis thread. like patrick duffy when the credits roll


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