Ghosts and Jack the Ripper and Atlantis Oh My ... worse-than-garbage "science"

I'm not even going to call this the "Post-Logic Age". There never was an "Age of Logic".

But, one of the presumably many ghost hunter shows. Some tubular enthusiast with a tight teeshirt so we can see his big guns, going through abandoned death rows and insane asylums and abortion clinics at night, with geiger counters and light meters and cardiovasculo-spectorographs and thromdimbulators and infra red -- no, cuz it's green -- night-vision cameras.

"Oh!" he enthuses, peering intently at a screen, "did you SEE THAT TOO!?! It was a GHOST!! Clearly a dancing sphere of light on the screen, and a sharp echo!!! You saw it too! It was astounding!!! Are you HERE, spirit!/!!?? Are you trying to tell us a message about your existence??!e;?!?!? wuz ur deth paynfullL!!?!!!EI??"

Crap factory.

But looking around, why, here's something about ... Atlantis!!! About scientists/divers, exploring the old news about the "Bimini Road", and some rectangular "storage buildings", as relics of Lost Atlantis!!!

The "scientists" slash "explorers" stare at video screens. "See that?!? It is clearly a perfect right angle, indicating carved rocks of human construction proving Atlantis of course. And notice how regularly spaced these storage structures are! It's such a shame they are utterly covered by 10,000 years worth of coral overgrowth, which law forbids us from removing, but the sharp angles of these humanly-carved blocks have nevertheless survived 12,000 years of eroding strong currents that threaten us in our dives to sweep us out into the miles-deep ocean." I think I'm quoting. Whatever.

Sloppy and dishonest. Scams and cults.

The show concluded that perhaps this too-young lost civilization, if it is one, was of the descendants of the Atlantians. Sure. They survived the 9000 years of utter silence, in Bimini.

The facts?

Atlantis was the Minoan Civilization of Crete. It is a certainty. The island of Thera, Santorini, was the cultic center, and it blew up volcanically about 1600 BC, leaving a caldera, ring-shaped island. The consequent "tidal wave" devastated the Minoan civilization on Crete, 70 miles away. We find the signs of the waves. The Cretans rebuilt, a pathetic shadow, that lasted a few hundred years more, then got wiped out again in another disaster.

Plato tells us Atlantis lay beyond the Gates of Hercules. Gibraltar, right? No. There was another strait by that name, in the Aegean. Beyond which lay Crete. Plato says 9000 years. 900 years before Plato wrote, that second destruction of Crete occurred. Plato says Atlantis was a series of concentric islands and harbors. Thera survived as a ring-shaped island. Get it?

Parsimony. Occam's Razor.

As for the Phantom Phinder hosts ... I looked them up. One may have graduated high school; the other seems to have gone to junior college. Their day job is as plumbers. It's a good job. But, the poor quality of their thinking. They need to open a stripper bar and do their reality show about that, instead of "science."

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Re the "Bimini "Road"", from Gifford, J.A., and M.M. Ball, 1980, [courtesy Wikipedia!!!] 'Investigation of submerged beachrock deposits off Bimini'. National Geographic Society Research Reports. v. 12, pp. 21–38 --

"The three features [called "road"] are unconnected at the southwest end; scattered blocks are present there but do not form a well-defined linear feature connecting the seaward, middle, and shoreward features.

No evidence exists anywhere over the three features of two courses of blocks, or even a single block set squarely atop another.

Not enough blocks lie in the vicinity of the three features to have formed a now-destroyed second course of rocks.

Bedrock closely underlies the entire area of the three features ... eliminating the possibility of excavations or channels between them.

Indications are that the blocks of the inner and middle features have always rested on a layer of loose sand. No evidence was found of the blocks' being cut into or founded on the underlying bedrock surface.

In areas of the seaward feature where blocks rest directly on the bedrock surface, no evidence was found of regular or symmetrical supports beneath any of the blocks.

We saw no evidence on any of the blocks of regular or repeated patterns of grooves or depressions that might be interpreted as tool marks.

The inner and middle features are continuous over a distance of only about 50 metres (160 feet). Though the seaward feature extends several hundred metres farther to the northeast, it too is not well founded or continuous enough to have served as some kind of thoroughfare.

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Jack H