Lost city of atlantis - do you believe?

So apparently an ocean search on Google Earth pulled up this image (courtesy of thesun.co.uk).

Scientists think it could be the Lost City of Atlantis.

What are you thoughts?

Some people have been saying it's obviously photoshopped, so I did my own Google Earth search using the info that was given with the article, and this is what I found.

I find this intriguing

I believe in it.

I believe in it too

I believe it was a great empire, like Greece or Rome once were
and I also heard they think its near Sicily, or somewhere in the Meditteranean

I guess it could be ATLANTIS- I do believe it did exist once.

I guess from my knowledge of what 'atlantis' was supposed to be like- round with a harbor for ships in the interior and a pyrimid shaped mountain. what I see in that photo is a lot of straight lines- walls? so who really knows what it is.

it appears that it is something that is manmade and old- it will be cool to see what comes of it, and I guess we only have handed down descriptions of what atlantis looked like, from thousands of years ago, it would be cool if it was atlantis.

we all (The human race) make up crap to try and explain things, or just because we're bored, and then people start thinking it's cool so they say that they believe in it too. am I saying that it's all made up, of course not, but still it is an interseting thought to ponder... if you agree( or disagree) go to my frekin profile thing. I would love to take into consideration what you have to say. even if it's lametastic

No.
Vague hash marks on a satellite photo are interesting but proof of nothing specific.

I'd like to think that it once did exist. I'd also like to think that it was also a grand city. The only problem is proof of what it once looked like. Like painting of Jesus, nobody really knows what it looked like. Everybody just assumes. Maybe they'll find remnants. That would be great!

I challenge you to find a _single_ scientist in a relevant field who thinks it could be the lost city of atlantis - or withdraw your claim.

And here's the money quote:
“It’s true that many amazing discoveries have been made in Google Earth, including a pristine forest in Mozambique that is home to previously unknown species and the remains of an ancient Roman villa,” a statement from Google read. “In this case, however, what users are seeing is an artifact of the data collection process. Bathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor. The lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.”

Here's the quote from the article itself:

Situated in an area called the Madeira Abyssal Plane, the grid was spotted by aeronautical engineer Bernie Bamford as he browsed through Google Ocean.

Bernie, 38, of Chester, said: “It looks like an aerial map of Milton Keynes. It must be man-made.”

Google today claimed the criss-crossing lines were sonar data collected as boats mapped the ocean floor.

But the internet giant said “blank spots” within the lines could not be explained.

So, it seems, Google can't even explain it.

ichibanarky: He's right - it's man made - by the boats doing the scanning.

As far as the 'blank spots' go - you mean like, er, the rest of the ocean? What's particularly remarkable about the lack of something odd looking? And given that the article you're referencing is from The Sun - home of tabloid journalism - I'm hardly inclined to credit them with quality reporting.

Finally, even if you assume the blank spots can't be explained - how is the simplest, most likely answer the lost city of atlantis?

I think the story of Atlantis is interesting and fun to think about but I just cant
accept it as being true. Nice question.

I believe there was a city. I just wanna know why dont they try to find it ya know? Get submarines out there man! I guess they just wanna keep it lost. ;0

I believe there was a city. I just wanna know why dont they try to find it ya know?

Because there's an awful lot of ocean, and no evidence that the city existed in the first place. Where would you have the submarines go?

I believe that Atlantis was the island of Santorini which was destroyed by a massive earthquake around the time Atlantis was supposedly destroyed.

Santorini is one of the smaller Greek islands and I was recently there. When the volcano exploded, it also destroyed the Minoan civilisation on the island of Crete who had their capital at the historical site of Knossos.

To look over the huge bay which is the site of the crater from the original volcano, when this exploded, it must have gone up with one hell of a bang! (see photo)

The small 'island' in the middle was created by small eruptions over the following years since the main erruption.

The actual crater is from the near edge to the lad at the far side of the photo.

To give you an idea of scale, the cruise ship in the pic is large enough for 2500 passengers!

Kiasu

okay. wow. that's a lot of reading. but I take an interest in this myself. supposedly atlantis was over 9000 years before christ and the people in it were the most advanced of the earth.
I completely believe in it and am somehow not surprized at how many people don't believe in it.
well, apparently as the story goes on the gods got angry and there was a tsunami of some sort. killing the city and everyone in it. but... if they were so advanced, what makes you think that the people of atlantis died? I think that even if the city itself was destroyed that the people must have left and hidden. there have been a few theories and a lot of crazy thoughts. please don't be too close minded though. you never know.

Yes I believe in everything.

In that case, I have a friend from Nigeria you might want to meet. He has a lot of money that needs transferring, and he's willing to cut you in on it.

Yess mamm' I belive