Posthuman Blues

THE GREAT ATLANTIS HOAX: ANOTHER MEDIA FIASCO

"Mr Sarmast claims that images taken by deep water sonar scanning 'indicate' man-made structures, including a 3-kilometer-long wall at a depth of 1,500 meter. However, his selective interpretation is nothing more than the blinkered reading of very ambiguous and unconvincing images. Anyone with a critical eye can pick out that these images are far too vague and uncertain to be regarded as compelling evidence for any man-made structures."

Any fool could have seen that coming. The sad thing is that researchers really have found some provocative undersea structures recently. Sarmast's illusory "Atlantis" will almost certainly help discredit an already controversial field of research. Certainly no mainstream outlet will touch the "underwater ruins" meme now.