Where do you think Atlantis was ??

[lost-in-nj]

Poll question: Where do you think Atlantis was ??

Listening to Donovan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chs2-dF_K0w


I always wanted to be the one to discover Atlantis......

I believe it is off the coast of Bimini

:hi:


lost

[hobbit709]

1. Santorini

[lost-in-nj]

5. Never even thought

about there


now you have me thinking


THANKS!!!



:hi:



lost

[MrScorpio]

8. Yep, right there in the Med

Santorini

[TheCentepedeShoes]

24. One more vote

for Santorini. I have a calendar of Greek island scenes on my cube wall. I would love to sail around whole Mediterranean.

[pitohui]

46. i agree santorini

my grasp of geography is so poor that i voted "offshore africa" hey it's closer than the other options right?

[TZ]

2. Delaware....

And the tolls were too much so they left....:evilgrin:

[lost-in-nj]

6. I agree!!!!

:hi:



lost

[trof]

3. It's about a half a mile from here.

Every once in a while I see one or two Atlanteans at the Winn-Dixie.
You can tell 'em by the gills.

[lost-in-nj]

7. PFFFT

:spray: :spray: :spray: :spray:

Did you call National Geographic???


:rofl:



lost

[trof]

14. I called the Dauphin Island Sealab.

They're sending a team.
http://www.disl.org/

[loveable liberal]

4. Proof it was in the pacific near Scotland!

[lost-in-nj]

9. where is the proof???

I would LOVE a link!!!!



:hi:


lost

or is it Donovans accent??????

[loveable liberal]

52. uh...uh.....Hey look over there! A Polar bear!

(running away quietyly)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. the PACIFIC?? near Scotland!!

say again :rofl:

[SPKrazy]

15. Scotland must have had some hellacious continental drift

to be in the northern Atlantic now

or is it the north sea

either way, it isn't the Pacific!!!!


:D

[harmonicon]

31. In the pacific near Scotland?!?!?! HA-HA!! NT

[SPKrazy]

10. In another dimension

not this one

[lost-in-nj]

27. your not a believer either???

:shrug:


:hi:


lost

[SPKrazy]

29. In another dimension I'm sure I am

and in this one I think it is in another

and I think there are infinite possibilities about every thought that is thought

or something like that :P


:shrug:


no one has ever found it

aliens, interdimensional beings, Church of Uranchia?

[pokerfan]

32. Do you believe in all the Greek legends

or just some of them?

[lost-in-nj]

34. I believe that

there is a basis to both the Greek and Roman legends.
I am a believer
they were written for a reason....

maybe some were romanticized or blown out of proportion
but there is some truth to the legends....



:hi:


lost

[pokerfan]

42. And it's also possible that Plato invented it

like Tolkien created Numenor. I just need evidence before I accept anything whether it be bigfoot, flying saucers or Noah's ark.

Show me evidence of a great sea-faring 10th century BCE civilization on a lost continent and I'll consider it.

Is it supposed to be in the Med or in the Atlantic? I honestly have never closely studied it.

[Robb]

54. Yah

I always figgered it fer one 'a them metaphor things. :D

[LanternWaste]

12. When I lived in Cancun some years back

When I lived in Cancun some years back, I had the rather delightful opportunity to have dinner with an under-water archaeologist one evening. Also in attendance was the individual I was contracted to write some commercial shots for. We'll call him Brad. Brad's a nice guy-- turned out to be one of my best friends in the word-- but the lines of fantasy and reality get somewhat blurred by him at times (too many nights of playing D&D and not enough nights reading it later turned out)

After dinner while we were relaxing on the patio and having coffee, Brad asks the professor (a very serious man with more degrees than all the people I've ever met put together) bluntly and with ALL seriousness...

"So where do YOU think Atlantis is...?"

Never in my life had I so badly wanted to crawl away and disappear (except for the time in first grade when I pooped my pants)

Edit to add: True story, that.

[lost-in-nj]

19. oh so your not a believer???

:shrug:


thats ok!!!!!


:hi:



lost

what did the Prof say???

oh and sorry about the first grade.....
:hug:

[LanternWaste]

44. Uh-oh... this was a serious question?

Uh-oh... this was a serious question? :blush:

Does it help that I loooove the song (even the re-make a few years ago-- that one's a guilty pleasure..)?

The archeologist was very diplomatic in his answer, and in so many words, told us there was simply not enough evidence to make a sound determination as to where it's location was/is. Also, his area of experitise was the coast of Merida-- he jokingly said that anything further away than five miles of the coast, he was as lost as we were.

:)

[Lyric]

13. In the Mediterranean Sea nt

[lost-in-nj]

20. Want to go together and find it???1

maybe a DU trip.
we can all go and bring our expertise!!!!


:hi:


lost

[ElboRuum]

62. Self-Delete. Replied to the wrong post.

[mnhtnbb]

58. Gets my vote.

[carlyhippy]

16. It's in the Caribbean..........

http://travelwithkids.about.com/cs/sunzonesresorts/a/atlantisresort.htm

[lost-in-nj]

21. LOL!!!

I have been there

we have a timeshare!!!!!


:rofl:


it is a great place


:hi:

WELCOME to DU!!!



lost

[carlyhippy]

23. Thanks! It really looks like a fun place to vacation at!

I wanna go someday

Carly

[FedUpWithIt All]

17. I think it is Antarctica

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa090301b.htm

[lost-in-nj]

22. WOW

never would have thought there!!!

Thanks for the link!!!!


interesting


:hi:



lost

[WinkyDink]

28. I'm inclined to think so, too.

[CBGLuthier]

18. I love Donovan. I love the song.

But I do not really believe in Atlantis.

[lost-in-nj]

25. It's ok

we can all believe in what we want to believe in....


:hi: :hug:

but I do believe.......


just a childhood dream.....



lost

[lost-in-nj]

26. I guess I would have to be 150

to check out all the places people believe it was!!!


I have learned alot here



THANKS!!!



:hi:


lost

[SPKrazy]

30. but did you get your back clean

in the shower?

:shrug:

it's the important things yanno :D

[lost-in-nj]

33. yes I did

I have one of these




:rofl:


lost


no mysteries here!!!!!



LOL

[SPKrazy]

35. Wail shoot!

guess you don't need no stinkin' help then :P

[lost-in-nj]

37. as the Barbra Streisand song says

In the tub a hand to scrub my back
is all I haven't got!!!!


:hug:


lost

[SPKrazy]

39. HMMM...

I see... :evilgrin:

[Taverner]

36. A Medeterranian Island

One that probably sunk due to a shift in the climate.

These things happened before we started causing them. Just not as frequently.

[lost-in-nj]

38. Yup

a young earth still getting settled...


The Medeterranian

maybe I should go there.....


hmmmmm




:hi:


lost

[Taverner]

40. Well, not THAT young

Remember Carl Sagan's Cosmic Calendar - human existence is only the last few hours of Dec 31.

[sniffa]

41. Off the coast of Greece

[newmajority]

43. Way down below the ocean?

I mean, that's clearly the answer, right?

[BreweryYardRat]

45. Other.

It's been suggested that Plato probably based the idea off handed-down tales of an island culture in the Mediterranean that was destroyed by a volcano about 1400 years before his time. (I don't recall the island's name, but I believe the culture was not related to the Minoans.)

[pitohui]

47. this is santorini, we all recalled the name but you :-) EOM

.

[Doug.Goodall]

48. Smack dab in the middle of the Atlantic! Where do you think they got the name Atlantic Ocean anyway?

It came from the lost continent Atlantis.

[DarkTirade]

49. Plato made a tenfold error with his distances

but I'm not sure if that means it was ten times too far away from what Plato told us, or if it was 1/10th as far away.

[Inchworm]

50. Off the coast of Jersey,, derr

Ain't that where all the slot machines came from?

;)

:hi:

[bikebloke]

51. Antarctica's one possibility

I guess we'll find out once the ice melts. That's if any of us are still treading water and feeling like diving down for a peek.

I've been to Santorini. It's something to sail into the crater. You see how massive an explosion it was. That ended the Minoans on Crete. There are ruins from the time of the explosion up the mountain from Kalamari Beach called Old Thira.

[JVS]

53. That video is a fucking hippie leotard show

[Robb]

55. American claims discovery of Atlantis

LIMASSOL, Cyprus (AP) — An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea, but Cyprus' chief government archaeologist was skeptical.

Robert Sarmast said sonar scanning 50 miles southeast of Cyprus revealed man-made walls, one as long as 2 miles, and trenches at a depth of 1,640 yards.

"It is a miracle we found these walls as their location and lengths match exactly the description of the acropolis of Atlantis provided by Plato in his writings," Sarmast said, referring to the ancient Greek philosopher.

The chief government archaeologist of Cyprus, Pavlos Flourentzos, reacted with skepticism, telling The Associated Press: "More proof is necessary."

Sarmast, 38, is an architect by training from Los Angeles. He has devoted the past 2 1/2 years to trying to locate the lost city described by Plato in his dialogues, the Timaeous and the Critias. He spoke to reporters on the "Flying Enterprise," his expeditionary ship, after six days of taking highly sophisticated "side scan" sonars of the seabed.

He said he had chosen the area from data provided by two earlier sonar scans of the east Mediterranean by Russian and French expeditions. Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing. He concludes by saying: "Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed."

"Oh no," the President exclaims. "That's terrible!"

His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.

Finally, the President looks up and asks, "How many is a brazillion?"

[lost-in-nj]

56. ....

:spank: :spank: :spank: :spank:
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



lost

[Robb]

59. Everyone's got their forte

Mine's stuff like this. :hi:

[TommyO]

57. Everybody knows it's in the Pegasus Galaxy

Haven't y'all seen that documentary on the Science Files (SciFi) Channel?

[Ivan Sputnik]

60. Plato's imagination

but probably inspired by the ancient volcanic eruption and tsunami in the Mediterranean that wiped out the Minoan civilization. There was something about this on PBS recently.

[Connonym]

61. I little bit west of Narnia but to the south of Middle Earth

[Deja Q]

63. Why not near the Bikini islands?

All the sailors saw the Bikinis, got confused, and *whoops* got ate by a giant whale?

[realisticphish]

64. Nowhere

it was a metaphorical civilization. I've seen no evidence to the contrary :shrug:

[Occam Bandage]

65. Santorini.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

66. In space

[struggle4progress]

67. Aisle 5?

[shugah]

68. everyone knows that atlantis is somewhere off the NJ coast

i read that in a national enquirer type magazine one time. it was the same issue that informed me that noah's ark had been found in california, and excaliber was now located in utah or somewhere just like that, and that batboy was on his way to washington.

did you miss that important news? :shrug: