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[segwayrulz]

well firstly i made this up at school and told it to my religion teacher who does this philosiphy stuff.
okay so atlantis was the great city that dinosaurs lived in. the dinosaurs were actually extremely smart but they had high birth deffect rates. ones who were born defected were exiled (they had small brains because that was the deformity). so the dinosaurs were ahead of us in terms of technology but this was only in atlantis. the large meteor/ asteroid was heading for earth, and the impact point of the asteroid was atlantis. so the smart dinosaurs got into their spaceships and flew into space to try to find another planet.

yea its stupid but sort of believeable. my teacher said thats bs, so whats your opinion.

[some_weirdGuy]

Nope.
Atlantis was probably an island community in the Atlantic that had a large volcanic eruption killing them all(maybe one of those eruptions where the volcano blows itself up).
maybe not even that. It probably didn't even go under water, just some people got wiped out(or not even that far, just had something bad happen and some of them/their village got wiped out) and the story spreading getting crazier and crazier, till it came to super futuristic society sinking to the bottom of the ocean and being wiped out.

And no, because it was some philosopher who wrote about Atlantis, and i doubt he would know about dinosaurs at all, let alone some space ship building dinosaurs who had a city and rejected all the 'retarded' dinosaurs who we take to be the norm but by your explanation were just the rejects.

[segwayrulz]

well if you think outside the triangle which surrounds the box then it makes sense.

Edited by segwayrulz, 10 April 2009 - 08:46 AM.

[Casen]

Your theory is retarded.

Atlantis was the Minoan civilization that was destroyed in a volcanic eruption. This same eruption led to the plagues during the Exodus.

Edited by Kacen, 10 April 2009 - 09:04 AM.

[Allathar]

Nothing... Not even bones.

And the idea is as retarded as the exiled dinosaurs. First of all, it's retarded, and second, where did Homer get the story from if all dinosaurs died out/escaped to another planet?

[segwayrulz]

I dont know, i made it at school when i was really bored. at least im aceing studies of religion (its my best subject even though i care the least about it".

[Vortigern]

All the super-futuristic models of Atlantis came from the HP Lovecraft mythos. Hyperborea, Ultima Thule, Atlantis and Albion, the four great empires of the antediluvian world. There were also dragons, apparently. My personal favourite theory is that of Stephen Lawhead, in his book 'Taliesin'. The people of Atlantis destroyed themselves and only some managed to escape, to places like Wales and Brittany. Interestingly, he also puts them as proto-Minoans, with a religion based around bull worship and the sun, very similar to the Minoans.

The theory I feel is the most likely to be true is that Atlantis was a volcanic island on the mid-Atlantic ridge and was destroyed by unusually powerful volcanic movement. That would also account for some of history's greatest confusions, such as the many similarities between Aztec and ancient Egyptian culture, assuming there were pyramids on Atlantis, anyway.

[Adamin]

well if you think outside the triangle which surrounds the box then it makes sense.

A very wise sentence.

Well, I don't know what happened to or in the real Atlantis. And to be honest I don't really care, because no-one will ever again know the complete truth about this myth. There're only a bunch of theories, and those who think that their favourite theory is the undeniable truth.

If I have to choose in thinking that Atlantis was just some boring place like every other continent, or a cool spot with hyper-intelligent dinosaurs with spaceships, hell then it won't take me very long to decide. ^^

[Ash]

Yeah. Dinosaurs and atlantis = BS.

Atlantis itself, in some way, shape or form, probably existed as a city, probably in much the way Vort described. Certainly not full of dragons, or magic, or merpeople, but a regular common-or-garden city on an island somewhere, and then some great calamity happened. I mean, hell, it wouldn't be the first time cities were destroyed by apocalytic natural forces. And it won't be the last.

It didn't exist in some middle-earth or anything like that. If anything, it probably just sank deep into the Atlantic. And let's be fair - we don't know Jack Shit about what's down there. Sure we can see the bottom, but not in any great detail, and it's been down there, presumably, for a couple of thousand years. Plenty of time to be ground into the fine powder that is the sediment at the bottom of the sea.

We'll never know for sure. And hey, isn't that part of what makes life fun?

[Rattuskid]

Doesn't this theory mean there are space velociraptors out there? Shouldn't they have tried to eat us or something yet? Wouldn't you COME BACK after the meteor dust settled?

Your idea makes as much sense as a fucking Micheal Bay movie. Rage.

[Pasidon]

Hey... I remember my bible teacher...

Mr.Heck, can you please turn the music off while we're testing?

After you turn your mom off.

I think that was word for word...

I'm sure the Stargate Atlantis team and Coronal Shepard would have something to say about your ridiculous theories!

[Comrade General]

I know some people who try to connect Atlantis with some ancient city in South America which was destroyed by a flood. I can see the connection, but something doesn't seem right. I mean, how can Plato (in Greece) know about the existence of an empire a world away from him?

[Copaman]

This thread has only been dead for almost half a year, no biggie dude...

[Ash]

Uhhhh....braiiiins....

[Vortigern]

Man, when I saw this thread was active again it really got my hopes up. I enjoyed this one. Incidentally, I came to a new conclusion about dinosaurs the other day:

Dinosaurs were the pinnacle of God's evolutionary plan for the Earth. They were the perfect beasts, diverse and populous and actually way smart, but we have no way of proving that, or indeed of proving otherwise. Then God disappeared away for a few hundred thousand years to check on one of His other many projects (what? You didn't expect to just sit around watching dinosaurs all day, did you?) and then, when He came back, found that an asteroid had crashed into his planet and only the midget mammals had survived, and God was all like "What the fuck, Planet Earth? I leave you for a few hundred millennia and you get trashed? I said no parties!" Then the mammals evolved, entirely by accident, and God was like "Meh, leave them be. They can't do any worse damage than you letting a fucking asteroid smash into the planet." And ever since, we have done our best to prove him wrong.

Discuss.

[Ash]

That's the coolest rendition of Genesis I ever heard.

Except for the Phil Collins one.

[Bart]

I agree!
[/irony]

Heh, the thread necromancer