The lost city of Atlantis — rumored to be discovered in a Google Earth map — is once again lost, thanks to a maps update from the search giant.
A grid-like pattern on a Google Ocean — a Google Earth extension — map raised speculation in 2009 that Google had discovered the sunken streets of the legendary city. However, considering the science, that seems highly unlikely.
Overlapping data sets, which created the pattern many thought to be Atlantis, commonly occur in the sonar method oceanographers use to map the ocean floor. Scientists bounce sonar (sound) waves off the bottom of the ocean to measure its topography.
The pattern supposedly resembling Atlantis was located off the coast of north Africa and covered more than 100 miles — much larger than the scope of any ancient city.
The Google Ocean map was updated last week with data collected by research cruises conducted over the last three years by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, among other research institutions.
"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," said David Sandwell, a Scripps geophysicist, in a statement. "The Google map now matches the map used in the research community, which makes the Google Earth program much more useful as a tool for planning cruises to uncharted areas."
Scripps says the next Google Ocean update will come later in 2012 and will provide depth calculations that are twice as accurate as the ones currently used.
Do you use Google Earth or Google Ocean? Have you found anything mysterious in your searches? Share your findings in the comments.
BONUS: 28 Google Street View Sightings
Looks like a giant version of the game Operation. That would explain the gaping holes -- but not much else.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
That's one way to tow someone.
Hopefully the driver reported this.
E.T. or space geek?
At least he's not worried about UV rays.
Maybe it was just a friendly hello.
At least there are guard rails?
We hope the Google driver caught the bouquet.
Spider Man likes his own parking shed.
Some might say it's a lens flare. Some might argue it's a camera malfunction. It's the sunlight reflecting off the...lamp post...and a lens flare....and a camera malfunction, skeptics will yell!
Maybe the guy just forgot his keys. Or he's practicing for the free climbing contest. Hey, is that a lockpicking set dangling out of his pocket?
We're gonna have to be honest here: the guy looks like he's merely paying for parking. But, that's a strip club behind him, and we will, of course, assume he just spent some sexy time with Mimi and Peaches. Is that a happy grin on his face? Sure it is.
Hey, it could have been worse. He could have been going out of a strip club, or something.
A couple of girls sunbathing on a lawn isn't exactly spectacular, but it's better than the blurry picture of the semi-naked babe on a truck.
"The Internet sucks, come here for your erotic needs", they say. Well, is Tera Patrick being all naked and naughty in there? Is she? Didn't think so.
We could open our web browser and find zillions of pictures of hot babes within seconds. In better quality. And more naked. But, there's something about finding a blurry pic of a semi-naked babe drawn on a truck on Google Maps that makes our heart race.
This guy shouldn't complain, at least it's hard to identify him.
It's a giant pumpkin. Right there in the field. Turn the image 180 degrees for a weird pink smoky...thing, too.
The cameras that Google is using for this aren't really working all that well.
...it wants its left side back.
And to your left, you can see the endless void that consumes all life. Please stick to the right side of the street.
Well, at least he's not speeding by much.
Street named after Steve Wozniak.
We're hoping this was for a kid's birthday party... In fact, this scene and others were staged by Street with a View as a prank on Google.
Looks like a giant version of the game Operation. That would explain the gaping holes -- but not much else.
Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me?
That's one way to tow someone.
Hopefully the driver reported this.
E.T. or space geek?
Where's the stuffing? From the Street with a View project.
At least he's not worried about UV rays.
Ye olde street view. From the Street with a View project.
Maybe it was just a friendly hello.
At least there are guard rails?
We hope the Google driver caught the bouquet.
Spider Man likes his own parking shed.
Some might say it's a lens flare. Some might argue it's a camera malfunction. It's the sunlight reflecting off the...lamp post...and a lens flare....and a camera malfunction, skeptics will yell!
Maybe the guy just forgot his keys. Or he's practicing for the free climbing contest. Hey, is that a lockpicking set dangling out of his pocket?
We're gonna have to be honest here: the guy looks like he's merely paying for parking. But, that's a strip club behind him, and we will, of course, assume he just spent some sexy time with Mimi and Peaches. Is that a happy grin on his face? Sure it is.
Hey, it could have been worse. He could have been going out of a strip club, or something.
A couple of girls sunbathing on a lawn isn't exactly spectacular, but it's better than the blurry picture of the semi-naked babe on a truck.
There's a sad background story to this one. Read it here.
"The Internet sucks, come here for your erotic needs", they say. Well, is Tera Patrick being all naked and naughty in there? Is she? Didn't think so.
We could open our web browser and find zillions of pictures of hot babes within seconds. In better quality. And more naked. But, there's something about finding a blurry pic of a semi-naked babe drawn on a truck on Google Maps that makes our heart race.
This guy shouldn't complain, at least it's hard to identify him.
It's a giant pumpkin. Right there in the field. Turn the image 180 degrees for a weird pink smoky...thing, too.
The cameras that Google is using for this aren't really working all that well.
...it wants its left side back.
And to your left, you can see the endless void that consumes all life. Please stick to the right side of the street.
Well, at least he's not speeding by much.
Street named after Steve Wozniak.
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