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2012-02-06 09:33:34 AM
cache.gawker.com
 
2012-02-06 09:35:25 AM
Obama was behind this, I just know it.
 
ZAZ [TotalFark]
2012-02-06 09:36:56 AM
If I ran Google I would give the "streets" names.
 
2012-02-06 10:05:33 AM
Stonecutters got to Google too. Is nothing safe?
 
2012-02-06 10:06:39 AM
It's still there. You can still see the gridlines.
 
2012-02-06 10:50:03 AM
You know who else wiped towns off the map.
 
2012-02-06 11:05:01 AM
RedPhoenix122: Stonecutters got to Google too. Is nothing safe?

4.bp.blogspot.com

/RedPhoenix122 made me smile
 
2012-02-06 11:07:05 AM
Good, maybe now I won't have to make any more connecting flights through there.
 
2012-02-06 11:47:41 AM
Now, if this can be done with Israel on Iran's google pages...
 
2012-02-06 12:10:59 PM
You maniacs!

You blew it up!

Damn you all to hell!
 
2012-02-06 12:19:15 PM
home.comcast.net
"They've taken my home."
 
2012-02-06 12:23:43 PM
UberNeuman: [home.comcast.net image 400x300]
"They've taken my home."


But did they terk yer jerb?!?

And of course Google removed Atlantis from the map... they want it all to themselves
 
2012-02-06 12:28:11 PM
meiobit.com
 
2012-02-06 12:28:46 PM
Its a conspeerassy!!111!
 
2012-02-06 12:33:58 PM
There's about 200,000 years of modern man unaccounted for, and look how far we've come in just the last 4 thousand.
 
2012-02-06 12:34:37 PM
I don't get it, why erase Crete? Besides, the island is still there.
 
2012-02-06 12:41:08 PM
J. Frank Parnell: There's about 200,000 years of modern man unaccounted for, and look how far we've come in just the last 4 thousand.

I remember seeing a news clip of an prehistoric city found in sunk in one of the coasts of India. Here's a news snippet (new window).
 
2012-02-06 12:43:20 PM
CygnusDarius: J. Frank Parnell: There's about 200,000 years of modern man unaccounted for, and look how far we've come in just the last 4 thousand.

I remember seeing a news clip of an prehistoric city found in sunk in one of the coasts of India. Here's a news snippet (new window).


From a more reliable source (new window).
 
2012-02-06 12:44:27 PM
The data's too inaccurate, Google.

Time to take this to the high seas:
laudontech.com
 
2012-02-06 12:47:45 PM
images3.wikia.nocookie.net
media.comicvine.com
Are not amused
 
2012-02-06 12:50:39 PM
J. Frank Parnell: There's about 200,000 years of modern man unaccounted for, and look how far we've come in just the last 4 thousand.

They're not unaccounted for; numerous stone tools have been found, as well as art of one sort or another going back about 40,000 years. We've come so far in the past few millenia because of a few critical inventions, notably agriculture and metallurgy. You sound like a credulous farktard.

/not saying it was aliens
//but it was aliens
 
2012-02-06 12:57:54 PM
malaktaus: You sound like a credulous farktard.

I'm not the one who believes humans just like you or i sat on the ground making tools for hundreds of thousands of years.

Well, actually, in your case it is believable. You'd probably just yell insults at anyone who told you walls kept predators out, and do your best to protect people from such zany ideas.
 
2012-02-06 01:03:15 PM
J. Frank Parnell: malaktaus: You sound like a credulous farktard.

I'm not the one who believes humans just like you or i sat on the ground making tools for hundreds of thousands of years.

Well, actually, in your case it is believable. You'd probably just yell insults at anyone who told you walls kept predators out, and do your best to protect people from such zany ideas.


You have no evidence of your assertions, and in fact there is abundant evidence that they're utterly absurd. An insult from someone so idiotic is a complement in my book, so thanks.
 
2012-02-06 01:17:52 PM
malaktaus: J. Frank Parnell: malaktaus: You sound like a credulous farktard.

I'm not the one who believes humans just like you or i sat on the ground making tools for hundreds of thousands of years.

Well, actually, in your case it is believable. You'd probably just yell insults at anyone who told you walls kept predators out, and do your best to protect people from such zany ideas.

You have no evidence of your assertions, and in fact there is abundant evidence that they're utterly absurd. An insult from someone so idiotic is a complement in my book, so thanks.


And, let us not forget, that we are now all over the more stupider for have to heard this breathtakingless terrible answer, and we dumber for hearing it. It is left not but with me to forstall the abundant clearly to go out back and give yourself a thorough and deeply deserved beating.
 
2012-02-06 01:24:08 PM
And, let us not forget, that we are now all over the more stupider for have to heard this breathtakingless terrible answer, and we dumber for hearing it. It is left not but with me to forstall the abundant clearly to go out back and give yourself a thorough and deeply deserved beating.

How is babby formed?
 
2012-02-06 01:25:56 PM
RassilonsExWife: And, let us not forget, that we are now all over the more stupider for have to heard this breathtakingless terrible answer, and we dumber for hearing it. It is left not but with me to forstall the abundant clearly to go out back and give yourself a thorough and deeply deserved beating.

How is babby formed?


what?
 
2012-02-06 01:30:24 PM
J. Frank Parnell: malaktaus: You sound like a credulous farktard.

I'm not the one who believes humans just like you or i sat on the ground making tools for hundreds of thousands of years.


What do you think they sat on?
 
2012-02-06 01:38:01 PM
FloydA: What do you think they sat on?

There is considerable archeological and anthropological evidence supporting the theory that they sat on their butts.
 
2012-02-06 01:39:01 PM
Isn't Atlantis really somewhere in the Pacific right now? Unless they went back to Pegasus, of course.
 
2012-02-06 01:44:39 PM
But can they keep the Martians under wraps?
 
2012-02-06 01:58:57 PM
treesloth: FloydA: What do you think they sat on?

There is considerable archeological and anthropological evidence supporting the theory that they sat on their butts.


Counter-theory:

moviesineedtosee.files.wordpress.com
They sat on their haunches.
 
2012-02-06 02:09:39 PM
I thought it was made by fishing trawler nets. I've seen similar effects off Scotland on the seabed.
 
2012-02-06 02:17:05 PM
FloydA: What do you think they sat on?

I believe that with the advanced brain of modern man, they may have made, at least one comfy chair.

Perhaps there were even many. All of which would be squirreled away in the back rooms of museums because people like malaktaus can't cope with a world where people designed nice chairs 200,000 years ago, with maybe a nice table in the middle, and a roof of some sort. I know it's quite a stretch of the imagination to think one of us could devise something as clever as a roof, but it's a very real possibility.
 
2012-02-06 02:17:33 PM
Atlantis isn't missing , its cloaked.
 
2012-02-06 02:26:39 PM
J. Frank Parnell: FloydA: What do you think they sat on?

I believe that with the advanced brain of modern man, they may have made, at least one comfy chair.

Perhaps there were even many. All of which would be squirreled away in the back rooms of museums because people like malaktaus can't cope with a world where people designed nice chairs 200,000 years ago, with maybe a nice table in the middle, and a roof of some sort. I know it's quite a stretch of the imagination to think one of us could devise something as clever as a roof, but it's a very real possibility.


Given that people back then relied on hunting for their food, and given the fact that animals tend to move around, the people would have had to move around too. Would it make sense for them to build comfy chairs to carry with them when they pursued the migrating game?

Do you bring a La-Z-Boy when you go camping? If you are moving tomorrow, how much effort do you put into building a shelter for tonight?

And why would museums hide chairs? That doesn't make any sense.
 
2012-02-06 02:59:47 PM
FloydA: Given that people back then relied on hunting for their food, and given the fact that animals tend to move around, the people would have had to move around too. Would it make sense for them to build comfy chairs to carry with them when they pursued the migrating game?

Why not? Wood makes fine chairs, and is fairly lightweight.

But it's doubtful that animals were as scarce back then as they are in more recent times. Chances are modern man was greatly outnumbered by them hundreds of thousands of years ago. Finding a place without them might have been difficult. And there are also lots of examples of 'primitive' people who made villages yet still hunted in the surrounding area for many generations. Hunters don't always have to be nomadic. In an animal rich environment they can just live off of whatever happens to be migrating through at the time. And many animals do not migrate at all.

FloydA: And why would museums hide chairs? That doesn't make any sense.

Have you ever been in a museum? There are no chairs to sit on. This is because all Museums are controlled by the illuminati, and the chair is the occult symbol of their ancient adversary: the worm god who cannot be named. legend has it, that It was him who first brought the knowledge of chairs to mankind. The only chairs you will find in museums are on exhibit, and no one is allowed to sit on them. Such is the sadistic nature of the illuminati.
 
2012-02-06 03:02:41 PM
J. Frank Parnell:
Have you ever been in a museum? There are no chairs to sit on. This is because all Museums are controlled by the illuminati,


Oh, I thought for a moment that you were actually serious about the things you were posting.

The points you raised earlier about mobility and hunting have all been answered, but I guess you aren't actually interested in hearing those answers. Never mind.
 
2012-02-06 03:10:15 PM
Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: The data's too inaccurate, Google.

Time to take this to the high seas:
[laudontech.com image 500x375]


If Google managed to take pictures on every body of water and made a "Boat view" that would be so awesome..
 
2012-02-06 03:11:57 PM
Evil Mackerel: Atlantis isn't missing , its cloaked.

I came here to say this.
 
2012-02-06 03:23:40 PM
ABQGOD: Diogenes Teufelsdrockh: The data's too inaccurate, Google.

Time to take this to the high seas:
[laudontech.com image 500x375]

If Google managed to take pictures on every body of water and made a "Boat view" that would be so awesome..


Know what would be really awesome? If Google took some of the spare billions they have laying around their headquarters, propping the legs of wobbly tables and invested it in...

...robotic, deep sea submersibles that just cruise around autonomously, snapping pictures and mapping the sea bottom, surfacing from time to time for a recharge and do a satellite upload of data.

/Gonna dream, dream big.
//If anyone can do it, it'd be Google
 
2012-02-06 03:25:19 PM
CygnusDarius:
I remember seeing a news clip of an prehistoric city found in sunk in one of the coasts of India. Here's a news snippet (new window).

From a more reliable source (new window).


It does lend some plausibility to the idea that at some point in this planets history, there was an island, it blew up or otherwise sank.

Atlantis however is a myth, a story told to show that if you misbehave too much the gods will punish you and that they are believers in scorched earth.
 
2012-02-06 03:26:41 PM
J. Frank Parnell: There's about 200,000 years of modern man unaccounted for, and look how far we've come in just the last 4 thousand.

Well it's a good thing they left all the resources like oil and metal and coal in conveniently accessible surface locations for us so we could use them in the last 4 thousand years.
 
2012-02-06 03:29:06 PM
Read Atlanta. Gee I'll miss CNN.
 
2012-02-06 03:48:44 PM
sarah_t_s: CygnusDarius:
I remember seeing a news clip of an prehistoric city found in sunk in one of the coasts of India. Here's a news snippet (new window).

From a more reliable source (new window).

It does lend some plausibility to the idea that at some point in this planets history, there was an island, it blew up or otherwise sank.



Actually, the Gulf of Cambay finds are pretty questionable. The wood from which they got the date is not clearly associated with the site (it was recovered by dredging, rather than excavation), and the ceramic "artifacts" are not even definitively artifactual- they might be "ecofacts," or "pseudo-facts"- things that look vaguely artificial but are actually naturally occurring objects.

It's already known that sea level rose after the last glacial maximum, as the continental ice sheets melted and the water ran back to the sea. But whether this site is an actual site is still open to question. It would not surprise me at all if people had lived there, but a settlement does not necessarily imply an "advanced civilization."

And islands don't suddenly sink into the sea. That's one of their defining features. (They can "sink" eventually, but it takes time.)


Atlantis however is a myth, a story told to show that if you misbehave too much the gods will punish you and that they are believers in scorched earth.

Yup. It's a morality play. It has more in common with Star Wars than with actual history.
 
2012-02-06 04:03:40 PM
FloydA: And islands don't suddenly sink into the sea. That's one of their defining features. (They can "sink" eventually, but it takes time.)

Sink, I can understand. What I want to know is, is it possible for an island such as Guam to become unbalanced and actually tip over?
 
2012-02-06 04:06:18 PM
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They didn't erase it, they just moved it to account for Plato's tenfold error
 
2012-02-06 04:11:04 PM
FloydA: And islands don't suddenly sink into the sea. That's one of their defining features. (They can "sink" eventually, but it takes time.)

I was thinking more 'boom' from a volcano and the remains sank, I admit the active volcano would then begin rebuilding the island similar to Hawaii (but on a larger scale) so you'd be hard pushed to know that chain of events happened.
 
2012-02-06 04:16:21 PM
FloydA: Oh, I thought for a moment that you were actually serious about the things you were posting.

The Book of Lindorm is not to be taken lightly. I assure you of this.

Just having a little fun with you. It's really fine with me if you want to believe modern man built nothing at all for 200,000 years, then suddenly and inexplicably decided it was time to start building stuff 4 or 5 thousand years ago. They were eating animals back then, and still managed to build large cities and towns. So like i already said, simply eating meat does not always make a people nomadic.
 
2012-02-06 04:22:45 PM
tankjr:
Sink, I can understand. What I want to know is, is it possible for an island such as Guam to become unbalanced and actually tip over?


You've got my vote. ;-)


sarah_t_s:
I was thinking more 'boom' from a volcano and the remains sank, I admit the active volcano would then begin rebuilding the island similar to Hawaii (but on a larger scale) so you'd be hard pushed to know that chain of events happened.


That happens, sometimes, but it leaves pretty obvious traces (e.g, Santorini/Thera).

Something like the Emperor seamounts (new window) would be a good example of islands actually sinking. But of course nothing like that happened off the coast of India. The Gulf of Cambay site is submerged entirely due to post-glacial eustatic sea level rise.
 
2012-02-06 04:23:21 PM
J. Frank Parnell: FloydA: Oh, I thought for a moment that you were actually serious about the things you were posting.

The Book of Lindorm is not to be taken lightly. I assure you of this.

Just having a little fun with you. It's really fine with me if you want to believe modern man built nothing at all for 200,000 years, then suddenly and inexplicably decided it was time to start building stuff 4 or 5 thousand years ago. They were eating animals back then, and still managed to build large cities and towns. So like i already said, simply eating meat does not always make a people nomadic.


You're a loony.
 
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