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rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
 Posted: 08-05-2011 11:16 Post subject: |
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ATLANTIS
Today on BBC1 London from 9:00pm to 10:00pm
Based on the latest scientific research, this factually based drama tells the story of the greatest natural disaster to shake the ancient world, the destruction of the island of Thera (modern day Santorini) around 1620 BC. This volcanic eruption and its catastrophic impact on Europe's first great civilisation, the Minoans, is now believed to have inspired the legend of Atlantis. With Stephanie Leonidas, Reece Ritchie, Langley Kirkwood, Isadora Verwey, and Natalie Becker |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-05-2011 23:30 Post subject: |
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I thought that was an illustrated history/science lecture.
And it was better than I expected!  |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 08-05-2011 23:35 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | I thought that was an illustrated history/science lecture.
And it was better than I expected! |
Yeah, it looked like they had spent some money on it. CGI wasn't too bad.
Acting started out a bit badly, but improved over the length of the program. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-05-2011 17:54 Post subject: |
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Atlantis: The Evidence - A Timewatch Special
Today on BBC2 from 7:00pm to 8:00pm
In this Timewatch special, historian Bettany Hughes unravels one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. She presents a series of geological, archaeological and historical clues to show that the legend of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event, the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world |
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 09-05-2011 19:17 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | I thought that was an illustrated history/science lecture.
And it was better than I expected! |
I enjoyed the reconstruction based on the evidence part, but the drama part seemed really anachronistic. No nonsense local businessman takes on ruling priest-class. Gods not amused.
I kept expecting the blue police box to turn up. |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-05-2011 19:50 Post subject: |
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| Pietro_Mercurios wrote: | | I kept expecting the blue police box to turn up. |
That'll be in the next series! |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
Great Old One Joined: 13 Dec 2008 Total posts: 21365 Location: Under the moon Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-05-2011 22:15 Post subject: |
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| rynner2 wrote: | | Atlantis: The Evidence - A Timewatch Special |
Interesting,but not particularly stunning. But then, I've been familiar with the Thera = Atlantis theory since the 60's (and the idea wasn't even new then, although we have got much more geological and archaeological evidence since).
But it was nice to see Bettany Hughes parading her Earth Mother physique...
(rynner snorts like a Minoan bull... can I mention aurochs? ) |
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| EnolaGaia Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Total posts: 1304 Location: USA Gender: Male |
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It's not often that a candidate Atlantis actually gets removed from consideration.
| Quote: | A Google Earth map that raised rumors of the lost city of Atlantis has gotten a much-needed update, ridding the seafloor of a gridlike pattern that some vigilant users suspected were sunken streets from the mythological underwater city.
In fact, Google Ocean, an extension of map program Google Earth, was merely displaying a data artifact from the sonar method that oceanographers use to map the seafloor. This week, Google updated the application with new seafloor data from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other groups.
"The original version of Google Ocean was a newly developed prototype map that had high resolution but also contained thousands of blunders related to the original archived ship data," David Sandwell, a Scripps geophysicist, said in a statement. "UCSD undergraduate students spent the past three years identifying and correcting the blunders."
The students also incorporated new data into the archive that Google uses to create its map of underwater topography. Researchers create this data by using sonar, or sound waves, that bounce off the seafloor and return information about its shape, not unlike how a bat uses sonar to "see" bugs. When Google uses lots of these surveys together, they sometimes overlap, creating strange gridlike patterns.
That's what happened in 2009, shortly after the launch of the extension. Eagle-eyed Google Ocean explorers spotted a large grid on the seafloor that looked strikingly like the streets of a well-organized small town. Immediately, "Atlantis" rumors started flying.
In fact, the grid was merely caused by overlapping datasets, according to NOAA. Besides that, the grid that looked like a little town actually covered an area of ocean more than 100 miles (161 kilometers) wide — not exactly small-town proportions.
The updated Google Ocean has been scrubbed of this Atlantis artifact. ...
SOURCE: http://news.yahoo.com/google-earth-erases-underwater-atlantis-error-121202529.html
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