Gadget Of The Week: Googlantis!
Despite all evidence to the contrary, a data-collecting artifact created by the paths of data-collecting ships caused the internet to explode with rumors that Google Earth had found the lost city of Atlantis.
The artifact looks a lot like the grid of a modern city's streets, except it covers an area the size of Wales, which meant either that it wasn't the real deal or that the Atlanteans were of Brobdingnagian proportions.
Personally, I was disappointed. Atlantis sounds neat! Too bad it's not really feasible, according to Walter Smith of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and David Sandwell of UC San Diego, who say "man-made structures simply aren't big enough to be measured that way."
Boo. Giant Googlantis is still my pick o' the week!
tiny dancer
Posted to Gadget of the Week, Hot Stuff on 2 March 2009
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That's not Atlantis, dear tiny; that's R'lyeh. Begin your cowering now.
Maybe the people of Atlantis were giants, duh.