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"The addition of sea-floor topography to Google Earth earlier this month revealed what some claim could be the lost city of Atlantis.

But Google (NSDQ: GOOG) says the undersea grid lines spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford while browsing Google Earth's ocean maps are data artifacts rather than sunken streets.

"[W]hat users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process," a Google spokesperson said in an e-mailed statement. "Bathymetric (or sea-floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data. The fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the world's oceans."

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- DATA glitch?
  Cartoon.
- 12 months ago
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  mattbrawn
- Bloody computers, always getting stuff wrong... :-/
- 12 months ago
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  KSc0
- mattbrawn:
  We just do a really good job at making something out of nothing.
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  asherp
- HAHA! It's just a glitch, like that giant orange "wall of fire" in Greenland!
  
  or an underwater alien civilization! bum bum bum!
- 12 months ago
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  Snails
- Atlantis and the hubble in one day, o baulzz
  
  i thought the right corners were pretty convincing, sucks.
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  gooma2
- Snails:
  oh my, it's getting creepy:)
- 12 months ago
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  clownpuncher
- wow, looks like a sleepless night over this one.
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  current89
- It's a conspiracy I tell you! A government cover up! Of course I don't really believe that. But there are some crazies out there who would. I can't believe people got so riled up about one image.
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  joshuaheller
- Check out the conversation about 'Atlantis' on Current.com
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  DeliaTheArtist
- joshuaheller:
  Yeah I posted this story on that thread as well. It didn't seem like anyone was buying the Atlantis idea anyway!
- 12 months ago
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