[story and image via the NYT Bits Blog]
So some Ocean Mapping thing that Google’s doing (for whatever reason) fucked up and totally freaked out a whole bunch of nerds.
Amongst a whole lotta normal-looking ocean floor imagery, there was a tiny patch that looked a bit different. And so, everyone who regularly checks out online maps of the ocean floor gravitated, quite naturally, towards the only obvious conclusion.
Quoth NYT:
“The most popular theory was that the markings were signs of the lost city of Atlantis.”
Clearly. Case closed. I mean, just look at the Google picture. There it is. Obv.
But, alas, no. Though I can totally understand how one could make the instant leap from “Hm. Weird-looking ocean image” to “OMG GOOGLE FOUND ATLANTIS”; there is another explanation, however unlikely.
According to Steve Miller, Google Ocean Manager/Atlantis-Truth Suppressor, the markings on the ocean floor image were apparently:
“Batches of imagery [that] didn’t overlap properly.”
Hm. Guess that makes sense. Sort of. I’ll buy it. For now.
But I think we all know what we really saw.
1 year ago