Hey, they finally found Atlantis!
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I thought theyād found evidence of an ancient city in Spain that might have led to the Atlantis myth?
Between this and drought-parched grass showing up ancient sites in Britain, weāre finding a lot of places once lost. Now we just need to not lose the earth itself.
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Small meteor crater perhaps? Had to have been recent (last 1000 years?) or the sea would have obliterated it.
Or a spaceship.
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If Atlantis were a myth, or a legend, someone would have mentioned it before Plato. Not a myth, not a legend.
Had to cancel loading the site though, because painful.
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Spoiler alert: I was being facetious.
Whatever this is, itās much too small, and in entirely the wrong place, to actually be Atlantis. Not to mention that itās only, literally, a few metres offshore, so a freaking city would have been noticed. Itās the right shape (concentric circles), but thatās about it.
Could still be a spaceship, though.
Or an underwater supervillain base.
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The document record isnāt intact enough to say anything of the sort. If it were, weād have multiple copies of what Aristotle had to say about comedy.
Last I heard, the going theory was that Atlantis was based on a flooding and destruction of a real city (probably from an earthquake), which then got embellished. Sort of like how Troy was a real city, but the stories about it are embellished.
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There are inundated (āsunkenā) settlements and harbors and cities all over the Black, Med, North, Aegean, Adriatic, and Baltic Seas. Sea levels rose quite a bit 3-4 thousand years ago as Central Asian and Siberian glaciers fully melted. Like all great Rural Myths, The Flood happened dozens of times in many places. Thatās without even touching the eruption of Thera.
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Looks like a sunken one of those round ship designs that never quite caught on:
(more info: http://englishrussia.com/2012/07/22/round-ships-of-the-russian-admiral/)
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Or maybe
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Why not? Kids play in abandoned mines in Denmark all the time and no one gets all pearl-clutchy about it.
Youāre telling me. In what crazy system is āState Mine Inspectorā an elected position?
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I wonder if mining companies have something to do with it? 
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I suppose it speaks to my own prejudices, but the notion of Danish children playing in Danish mines doesnāt worry me nearly as much.
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Wow! That looks like something designed by a 5th-grader!
And that last sentence:
The only completed XF5U-1 proved to be so structurally solid that it had to be destroyed with a wrecking ball.
Not what you expect for an airplane prototype!
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So many kids adventure books begin with mines and caves. Goonies, for example. Sometimes the rapaciously greedy villain is the great-great-great-grandson of a slaver out for revenge against aā¦ pirate? What did his family wrong one time? And sometimes itās a dipshit South African. But I repeat myself.
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Another Youtube video discussed racism and racist motivations for a hoax. Anyway, there was a lot of push-back.
I tried to find videos on the Monogenesis-Polygenesis controversy and the rise and fall of race as a scientific theory but no luck.
I did find this very short history of anthropology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-q7uvGHlo
As a lecture, it tends to omit important topics if they have separate lectures.
My favorite part of Danish mines is when they find a large deposit of streusel.
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Better than treacle or high BCB fats?
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Thereās a lot of animation at the beginning. I open another window in front until the music stops:
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http://languagehat.com/linguistics-clickbait/
I offer a few of my own suggestions on the Hat thread.
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World War I still having an effect.
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