Friday, February 20, 2009

Atlantis found?

CrunchGear posted a blog indicating that Atlantis has been found. Sure, the source is a British tabloid, but apparently the ancient city was found using Google Earth.

While Atlantis is interesting in and of itself, the real story here is the technology. Google has been collecting data on the ocean floors using sonar. Impressive as it is that Google hired drivers to snap pictures of our major cities, it is even more incredible that they have hired boats to gather data about the ocean floor and stitch that data into their maps.

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