Re: just had to try this one more time

I read in sci.electronics.design that Rich Grise <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote (in <pan.2005.04.11.18.35.51.90085@xxxxxxxxxxx>) about 'just had to try this one more time', on Mon, 11 Apr 2005:

Pan is also another name for "The Land of Pan", or Pangaea, which is what was left when Atlantis blew up.

The real Pangaea was the single land-mass that appears to have existed about 500 million years ago and which split up in stages into the continents that we know today.

Atlantis, if it existed, was much more recent. It's not impossible, considering the descriptions of its geography, that it was a tsunami victim, rather than sinking beneath the sea, but it's not clear whether any known event could have caused such a tsunami in the western Atlantic or Caribbean.

Santorini would have caused one, no doubt, but could a tsunami thread the Pillars of Hercules without losing most of its energy? Superficially, it's a good candidate; it happened in 1650 BCE, in the misty age when history and myth are inextricably mixed. It also involves a (HUGE!) explosion, followed, of course by a local inundation, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence of an advanced Mediterranean civilization being extinguished by it. And Atlantis was always regarded as alien and mysterious, not just another local race of islanders, and the land was located far to the west of the 'known world'.
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