Sunday, February 22, 2009

Atlantis?

While we are not making any fantastic discoveries using the LHC, another behemoth is still hard at work.
Google Ocean: Has Atlantis been found off Africa?

The network of criss-cross lines is 620 miles off the coast of north west Africa near the Canary Islands on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.

The perfect rectangle – which is around the size of Wales – was noticed on the search giant's underwater exploration tool by an aeronautical engineer who claims it looks like an 'aerial map' of a city.

The underwater image can be found at the co-ordinates 31 15'15.53N 24 15'30.53W.
So what isn't Google responsible for these days?

2 comments:

rbbergstrom said...

That is pretty freakin' cool.

I'm curious how Google Ocean gathers it's data. It's not like a satellite photo would show the bottom of the ocean. Do they have boats out doing sonar sweeps or something?

I guess I'll have to go download the latest version of Google Earth now.

Anonymous said...

The lines are an echo of the boats path. Just read this today. story here Maybe you have already seen this as well?