Atlantis is ... Ireland?

[T Roosevelt]

Ireland Is Lost Island of Atlantis, Says Scientist
Fri Aug 6,11:52 AM ET

By Kevin Smith

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Atlantis, the legendary island nation over whose existence controversy has raged for thousands of years, was actually Ireland, according to a new theory by a Swedish scientist.

Atlantis, the Greek philosopher Plato wrote in 360 BC, was an island in the Atlantic Ocean where an advanced civilization developed some 11,500 years ago until it was hit by a cataclysmic natural disaster and sank beneath the waves.

Geographer Ulf Erlingsson, whose book explaining his theory will be published next month, says the measurements, geography, and landscape of Atlantis as described by Plato match Ireland almost exactly.

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[Fridays Child]

1. Ireland, huh?

I'm down with that. :)

[TrueAmerican]

2. I always imagined Atlantis

in the southern Europe and a warm climate.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. So I am of Atlantean descent?

Sweet!!!!!

[JohnKleeb]

5. makes me a quarter Atlantean heh

this is interesting.

[sasquatch]

4. I guess drinking ability=Intelligence to Plato

I never really liked Plato anyway:beer:

[JohnKleeb]

6. youre German sas

heh and we all know the Germans drink just as much as the Irish, and drinking ability is inteligence. :beer:
BTW I am both German and Irish and some other shit.

[Deja Q]

7. I was going to make an alcoholic-related quip too...

How the natural disaster must have been a whiskey refinery exploding...

:wow:

(my ancestry goes back to that part of the world as well so I can jibe at it all I want too. )

[sasquatch]

8. Heh! Have you ever seen the "Family Guy" episode where....

they show what Ireland was like before the discovery of alcohol

[JohnKleeb]

9. I seen that

hah that was good.

[salvorhardin]

10. I thought Atlantis was in the Pegasus galaxy?

That's what MacGyver said.

Actually, how many places are supposed to have been Atlantis now?

[dbt]

11. That would explain the Uillean Pipes!

:beer:
dbt

[The Commie]

12. I have always believed that Plato was writing about the Minoans...

Who went into decline after a volcano on ther nearby island of Thera exploded.

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

13. Thats what I thought, too..but the "sunken city" is in other Euro folklore

I think the Germans and Scandinavians have a legend of a sunken city in the Baltic, too.