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13 Jul 2011, 1:17 am

While on Google Maps I came across this. According to the distance bar the object is 100 miles wide by about 60 miles tall. It looks like the remains of a pyramid with a ramp but I have no ideas. I've never seen anything on the ocean floor quite like it on Google maps.

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13 Jul 2011, 1:34 am

It appears that this is where ship-borne topographic surveys were conducted and, thus provide a better resolution of the submarine topography compared to adjacent areas. This is not the lost city of "Atlantis" or an underwater man made structure. Its just meerely an artifact of data collection.

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13 Jul 2011, 1:55 am

kxmode wrote:

These are sonar tracks. They are not physical features on the ocean floor, they represent a sampling of the depth of the ocean floor using sonar. For example, imagine you have to map the bottom of pool with a laser pointer, and the only portion that will appear on the actual map is the portion that the thin laser beam ran over. That is what you are seeing here. Here is a more in depth explanation.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.p ... er=1201179

This particular patch of sea floor was "imaged" to investigate it's suitability for (joy of joys) radioactive waste disposal, which you can read more on here.

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/ubbthreads.p ... ost1200949

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13 Jul 2011, 5:35 am

CGKings317 wrote:

This is not the lost city of "Atlantis" or an underwater man made structure. Its just meerely an artifact of data collection.

Pity

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13 Jul 2011, 6:24 am

kxmode wrote:

"looks like" It would take several views from several angles to see what it "looks like".

Under the oceans there are mountains taller than Everest.

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13 Jul 2011, 11:37 am

Thanks for the information and for clarifying. :)

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13 Jul 2011, 12:00 pm

I wonder what's out there that they were so interested in mapping?

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13 Jul 2011, 8:33 pm

K_W wrote:

I wonder what's out there that they were so interested in mapping?

They were probing the ocean floor to see if the geology of the area was suitable for nuclear waste dumps.

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13 Jul 2011, 11:41 pm

Chronos wrote:

K_W wrote:

I wonder what's out there that they were so interested in mapping?

They were probing the ocean floor to see if the geology of the area was suitable for nuclear waste dumps.

That's horrible, if true! I already nuke fish sticks. I don't need them pre-nuked. I don't know if I can trust that Gorton's Fisherman...

o_o

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14 Jul 2011, 2:07 am

kxmode wrote:

Chronos wrote:

K_W wrote:

I wonder what's out there that they were so interested in mapping?

They were probing the ocean floor to see if the geology of the area was suitable for nuclear waste dumps.

That's horrible, if true! I already nuke fish sticks. I don't need them pre-nuked. I don't know if I can trust that Gorton's Fisherman...

o_o

Nuclear waste has to be disposed of somewhere.

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