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Titolo: [Atlantide] Bimini secondo il "National Geographic" (mah...)

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http://www.nationalgeographic.com/resources/ngo/infocentral/phenom/atlantis.html
leggiamo la seguente roba:
**Others locate Atlantis near the Bahamas,
where large stone blocks litter the seafloor.
These blocks, observers believed, might
have formed roads in Atlantis. The National
Geographic Society supported an
investigation of several sites off North and
South Bimini in 1971. The team was
headed by Dr. Mahlon M. Ball of the
Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Sciences at the University of
Miami. Dr. Ball’s report indicates that the
blocks are natural geologic formations
marking the position of a former shoreline
thousands of years ago.
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In sostanza: rocce perfettamente naturali e nulla più. Come se le
"anomalie" poi riscontrate da altri studiosi non dovessero
nemmeno essere prese in considerazione...anche qui dobbiamo
lasciare ai posteri l'ardua sentenza?
stànz

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Ho letto un articolo simile su un altro sito (Richards, Douglas G.;
"Archaeological Anomalies in the Bahamas," Journal of Scientific
Exploration, 2:181, 1988). 
Si riporta:
BIMINI ARCHEOLOGICAL ANOMALIES
The famous Bimini "wall" or "road," in the Bahamas, has engendered many
a sensational article in the popular press. Atlanteans and even
extraterrestrials have been credited with the building of the "road" and
other constructions reported around the Caribbean island.
The fact is that the "road" does exist, but the weight of opinion among
those who have investigated it is that it is a natural formation of
beach rock fractured in a
disturbingly regular manner. But this assessment does not mean that all
anomalies in the shallows around Bimini have been exorcised. 
D.G. Richards, in a splendid article in the Journal of Scientific
Exploration gives us a blow-by-blow account of the investigations (both
amateur and professional) of
Bimini waters. It is a curious panorama of wild claims by adherents of
the 
Cayce-inspired Atlantis searchers and the knee-jerk academic scoffers -
both of which
go overboard! Be this as it may, our purpose here is the recording of
some of the
features near Bimini that Richards thinks are still anomalous. 
Three of these are located at A, B, and D in the accompanying drawing,
which is
based on an aerial photo taken at 6,000 feet. A is a 90 bend in the
renowned "road."
This bend is decidedly anomalous for a beachrock formation. B consists
of a parallel
row of stones. D is made up of regularly spaced piles of stones and
extends over 1½
miles, cutting diagonally across ancient beach lines. 
Richards also employed a satellite image of the area to locate other
"regular" features,
such as a triangle, a pentagon, and a sharp, right-angle corner with
mile-long sides.
Inspecting these regularities from a small boat, Richards found no
obvious structures
of any kind. Rather, the patterns were caused by sea grass and white
sand. Even so,
these superficial patterns may reflect the presence of artificial
structures under the
sediments. Certainly, if these regularities were observed in a photo
taken over land,
archeologists would rush to dig away the overburden. But this was
Bimini, and
everyone knows that no "high cultures" ever lived there!
Le affermazioni precedenti non tengono conto pero' di altri avvistamenti
e ritrovamenti nell'area caraibica, come ad es. il cosiddetto "tempio
atlantide" (profilo rettangolare che si pensa segua le linee di
un'antichissima costruzione ora sommersa).
Luigi (The Ghost)
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