I saw that Ancient Aliens show on the History channel; just for the lulz of course. The weird fringe stuff the had to say about everything reminded me of a huge steaming pile of elephant dung.
I think Atlantis might just be the greatest fanfic every. I mean Plato came and told a story and people loved it so much that over, not just centuries but millennia have added layers upon layers of what can only be possibly described as seemingly innocuous but incredible 'fluff' about it.
Most likely it was a just the whole Santorini story retold on steroids.
Or it was an amalgamation of sorts of various legends and myths of the time which were based on little understood facts such as the fate of the Minoans, etc.
Then again if we really really have to assume that it was a different story then the one about the city on the shores of the Black Sea abandoned due to the rising sea levels seems like a reasonable analogue for the whole Atlantis story.
Or if we really wanna go ASB, there could be like a story where the Greys (part of a larger collective of several species of aliens) needed a primitive neolithic species that was smart, had a fast population growth rate and good at fighting to fight of other aliens (giant space bugs ala Swarm on the Somme anyone). They gave us tech and helped form a civilization based in the Bahamas with small not so self-sufficient colonies for resources all over the planet. How about they even genetically modify us into something like the Nordic aliens? And when the alien threat was gone, we started spreading out and started getting into conflicts with them. We knew we were doomed so we left little trinkets like the stash under the Sphinx etc for the neolithic peoples still there to use.
The aliens wiped out mars and turned it into the desert wasteland it is, and a caused the sea level rise which submerged Atlantis by firing at the poles. Some of the Atlanteans survived and spread out among the people giving rise to the common cultural traits in the ancient civilizations like bull worship and stuff. Some escaped to distant star system like somewhere int the Sagittarius constellation (i.e., the WOW! Signal) while the Greys sorta imposed a quarantine on our system.
Sound like a half-decent ASB thread?
