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Richat Structure

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This gained popularity a year or two ago when a few youtubers took it upon themselves to determine that if Atlantis were real, what geological features might be the most likely candidates? Ancient Architects and Bright Insight both come to mind, here, with the latter choosing the Richat Structure as their target of interest and Ancient Architects chosing Rockall.

However it may be appealing to suggest that it fits Plato's description, the Richat structure is almost certainly just the remains of a fantastically enormous geologic dome that grew and shrank repeatedly over eons; causing the ring structures to form from the expected natural sedimentation and similar.

Still absolutely wild to consider, given its size.

do you think it could be the roof of some ancient temple?

It is 40 km (25 miles) in diameter, so ... no.

This is just as much speculation as it is to claim that it's truly the site of Atlantis. I'm siding with the YouTubers ;)

In any case, would love to see an unbiased archeological dig there. From what I recall watching videos about this place, there are some political/legal challenges to gaining access there besides for individual travel.

the wikipedia article says there have been archeological digs there.

My pet theory is that Atlantis was a composite story from a large number of coastal civilizations being wiped out by Early Holocene sea level rise: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Holocene_sea_level_rise

Flood stories, including biblical flood, are potentially coming from the same source.

Cool theory never heard of it before. Though the only description we have say Atlantis sank in single day and night of misfortune. Doesn't really fit sea level rise. Though that could just be poetic.

Prominently, Doggerland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggerland

That's actually not out of line with what Ancient Architects proposed; the operator of that channel tries to shy away from pure speculation, and proposed sea level rise as a cause for Atlantis sinking; and from there, they narrowed in on Rockall, which has interesting now-sunk but previously above-water features.

You can find it on google map and its scale looks very impressive!

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Richat+Structure/@21.16845...

I know that it's a less-than-reputable source, but I love the theory that the Richat structure is the lost city of Atlantis. https://www.ancient-origins.net/unexplained-phenomena/richat....

National geographic did a show about it with lidar and everything. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/shows/atlas-of-cursed-...

I've posted a YT video about it here about 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30378263

Judging by the up-votes, let's just say HN folks were not interested.

Wouldn't a micro black hole punching through create a similar kind of concentric circles with central hole? Just gotta see if the other side of earth has any signs of something similar.

Why would a micro black hole create such a structure? Maybe it’s what made the moon!

Well, the micro black hole would not necessarily go straight through the center of the earth. The exit could be pretty much anywhere on the Earth's surface.

The amount of wild ass speculations and conspiracy theories about this thing on youtube seems to be off the scales. No wonder we can't have nice things...

Why do you think it’s bad to speculate? Wild speculation is a necessary preliminary step from which you can sieve out testable hypotheses.

I’d love to see some more pics of it from the ground, rather than just the same aerial shots you see everywhere.

I am not saying it’s aliens…

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