The Lost City of Atlantis Discovered – See it on Google Maps

Sunday 22 February 2009 @ 6:05 pm

If you get on Google Maps (or Google Earth) you may be able to find these rectangular shapes deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Could this be the greatest discovery made by stupid Google satellites? Could this be the discovery of the lost city of Atlantis? People were searching for Atlantis for centuries, we have had insane technology at our disposal for decades, were we all waiting for stupid Google Earth to eventually get the lost city of Atlantis discovered? Could it be this easy?

The rectangular shapes within Atlantic Ocean can be seen on Google Maps at 31 15′15.53N, 24 15′30.53W coordinates. It’s about 600 miles off western coast of Morocco, not too far from Canary Islands. You can use the embedded view of Atlantic Ocean to zoom in and out and see for yourself. Does this look like the lost city of Atlantis to you? It sure looks like rectangular shapes, something you don’t see at the bottom of an ocean. Geee, Google Maps must have discovered Atlantis, I swear.

According to Twitter (I’m straight hence I don’t use Twitter), term “Atlantis” has been the most sought for and most wrote about on Friday last week. Maybe it’s a key term to some new homosexual activity. Considering 99% of Twitter users are homos, it would make sense.

Google representative apparently popped the party bubble and destroyed all dreams of wannabe Atlantis discoverers by saying that those shapes at the bottom of Atlantic Ocean are “artifact of the data collection process” – come again? “Artifact of the data collection process”? What the fuck is the dude talking about? Does he use Twitter too?

Greek philosopher Plato described the lost city of Atlantis and according to experts (probably Twitter users) the location of rectangles at the bottom of Atlantic Ocean as pictures by Google maps is a possible site of the legendary island. According to Plato, Atlantis was an island larger than Libya and Asia famous for its wealth and advanced civilization.

 



Nuclear Subs of British and French Armies Collide in Atlantic

Monday 16 February 2009 @ 3:15 pm

Nuclear Subs of British and French Armies Collide in Atlantic

Seriously, what are the chances of two subs colliding in the Atlantic Ocean? If there were a grand total of two cars in the entire world and you are the owner of one of them. What are the chances of you colliding with that other car that can be just about anywhere in the world? Plus consider this – the movement of cars is two dimensional. You can only go forward and backwards, or left and right. You can’t go up and down (not talking about hills). Nuclear submarines of British and French armies managed to collide in Atlantic. The space within Atlantic, the three dimensional space that’s available for these nuclear subs is massive. And they still managed to collide. I’m just as short for explanation as you are. Do you think it has anything to do with Brits driving on the left :D

I’d be embarrassed out of my socks if I managed to collide with another nuclear sub that’s in the ocean when I am. That reminds me of the line in Finding Nemo – “What? The ocean’s not big enough for you?” Apparently it’s not big enough for French and British sub army. Tug of war does not quite work when you operate a sub, so they tried to batter each other. Their radar operator should really attend another training… Perhaps they also should include a lesson on distinguishing friendly subs from whales.

Here’s what happened – HMS Vanguard, the nuclear sub of British army and Le Triomphant, the nuclear sub of French army collided with each other within Atlantic Ocean and sustained heavy damage. As per First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Jonathon Band, no injuries were reported as both subs were floating about at low speeds. Both British and French sides confirmed that no nuclear security issues will rise from this collision. Considering each of the subs carries several nuclear war heads, if the collision was stronger, we’d have an under water nuclear explosion which would have insane implications. I can’t even think of what would happen to the sea life and to people living on shores of both sides of the Atlantic. They say tsunamis are result of deep sea earthquakes. If several dozen nuclear warheads exploded, we’d see a tsunami of epic proportions. Someone should start explaining how is it possible that submarines carrying weapons of mass destruction collided in the middle of Atlantic Ocean – world’s second largest body of water.

HMS VANGUARD Nuclear Sub Stats:
Launched in 1992
One of four British submarines carrying Trident nuclear missiles
Displacement (submerged) 16,000 tones, 150m (492ft) long
Can carry 48 nuclear warheads on a maximum of 16 missiles
Full crew is 145, including 14 officers
Submerged speed of 25 knots

LE TRIOMPHANT Nuclear Sub Stats:
Launched in 1994
One of four French ballistic missile nuclear-powered subs
Displacement (submerged) 14,000 tones, 138m (452ft) long
Can carry 16 ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads
Full crew is 110, including 15 officers
Submerged speed over 25 knots

Source: BBC News

 



Page 1 of 11