Google is breaking down all of the frontier barriers and allowing us to discover parts of the world that would have otherwise gone un-noticed. This is collaborative research at its best – huge volumes of automatically collected data can be scrutinized by millions of people and discoveries made where smaller teams would have turned up nothing.
According to the Sun (an excellent source of news, if you get my sarcasm) users of Google Ocean have happened upon a grid-like anomaly found off the west coast of Africa which they say could be the lost city of Atlantis.
Unless Atlantis was actualy 500 square miles, the “discovery” is likely just a data glitch caused during sonar surveys of the Madeira Abyssal Plane.
Update: According to Google, the strange configuration is actually “ship tracks” from sonar surveys.
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