"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."
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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Check out the conversation about 'Atlantis' on Current.com
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- joshuaheller
- 9 months ago
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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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wow, looks like a sleepless night over this one.
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- clownpuncher
- 9 months ago
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Atlantis and the hubble in one day, o baulzz
i thought the right corners were pretty convincing, sucks.
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HAHA! It's just a glitch, like that giant orange "wall of fire" in Greenland!
or an underwater alien civilization! bum bum bum!
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Bloody computers, always getting stuff wrong... :-/
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DATA glitch?
Cartoon.
