10,000 year old pyramids discovered off of Japan... under 100ft of water

http://weirdandinteresting.blogspot....

Pretty cool. Of course I dont know if its really true or not. I got this link from a friend over IM and dont have the time to check it out other than read the article. Does anyone know more about this?

Fascinating if its true!

PAR

Sounds like Goauld transports left over from the System Lords.

I heard about this once, back when they were still in "it might be a natural formation" mode. Supposedly some of the history doesn't match up though those are pretty compelling pictures and observations.

Dunno about the literal "conspiracy theory." Why would anyone want to cover it up? And if there is a conspiracy, how do we know about the find at all?

Just more evidence that Japan is the awesomest place ever.

Yea Im not really interested in the conspiracy thing, Im curious to know if what that article states is true or not and if there is more info around the web somewhere. Thats just incredible if its true!

And yea I heard Japan is pretty sweet. Had a friend of mine just get back from 2 weeks there and he said it was pretty awesome. He did say that they have some weird fascination concerning poo though

PAR

Very cool article. I do wonder why it isn't more publicized, but I doubt it's a conspiracy.

Great. First we have particle physicists getting ready to Ice-9 the planet with strangelets, and now some hotshot archeologist is dredging up dread R'lyeh and agitating the Old Ones. What's next, the T-virus?

Could Japan be Atlantis? o_O

Switchbreak wrote:

Great. First we have particle physicists getting ready to Ice-9 the planet with strangelets, and now some hotshot archeologist is dredging up dread R'lyeh and agitating the Old Ones. What's next, the T-virus?

I like where you're going with this..

Switchbreak wrote:

Great. First we have particle physicists getting ready to Ice-9 the planet with strangelets, and now some hotshot archeologist is dredging up dread R'lyeh and agitating the Old Ones. What's next, the T-virus?

It would explain Japan's fixation on tentacles...

I actually saw a Cthulhu-themed anime called Demonbane, once. Of course they worked in the usual anime tropes: magic tomes were powerful enough to take human form and for some reason liked the form of prepubescent girls, and the greatest weapon humanity had against the Old Ones was a giant robot. Still, pretty cool stuff.

LobsterMobster wrote:

Dunno about the literal "conspiracy theory." Why would anyone want to cover it up?

Them Japanese peoples, all Jews! Simple.

I recall a recent NatGeo or Discovery channel show about this where the general conclusion is that the features are naturally occurring.

UCRC wrote:
LobsterMobster wrote:

Dunno about the literal "conspiracy theory." Why would anyone want to cover it up?

Them Japanese peoples, all Jews! Simple.

Japanese Jews? But how did the foremen crack the whips underwater?

LobsterMobster wrote:

I actually saw a Cthulhu-themed anime called Demonbane, once. Of course they worked in the usual anime tropes: magic tomes were powerful enough to take human form and for some reason liked the form of prepubescent girls

Oh that is easily explained, since they like to devour souls, and middleaged men have the "just right" flavoring of experience on their souls (young men not enough, old men too much... middle aged japanese men are like the baby bears of the soul devouring experience), so they take a form that will entice their favorite snacks to them.

It doesn't sound like it'd be a natural formation. Any other links to pictures?

I was hard pressed to find a site that wasn't full of wild speculation and conjecture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonaguni
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...

Sometimes rocks are just rocks. Interestingly shaped or not.

Kannon wrote:

It doesn't sound like it'd be a natural formation. Any other links to pictures?

There are some more pictures in this article. [edit: beaten]

It's odd that there don't seem to be any pictures of the more convincing evidence that this Kimura guy claims to have, like sculptures and etched characters. I'm somewhat skeptical towards the whole thing.

I want to believe

magnus wrote:

Me want to berieve

Clearly there are sea-people. Geeze, my 6th graders could tell you that.

Maybe he's the next Schliemann. Who knows?

The real thing I see missing here is the "missing" city in Japanese mythology or history. It's one thing to find supposed remains, but it's rare for whole cultures to vanish without any sort of trace at all. Especially in an area as continuously and homogenously populated as Japan. Someone would have mentioned the lost Whoevers; particularly if they built on that scale. Has anyone here heard/found anything like that?

LobsterMobster wrote:
Switchbreak wrote:

Great. First we have particle physicists getting ready to Ice-9 the planet with strangelets, and now some hotshot archeologist is dredging up dread R'lyeh and agitating the Old Ones. What's next, the T-virus?

It would explain Japan's fixation on tentacles...

I actually saw a Cthulhu-themed anime called Demonbane, once. Of course they worked in the usual anime tropes: magic tomes were powerful enough to take human form and for some reason liked the form of prepubescent girls, and the greatest weapon humanity had against the Old Ones was a giant robot. Still, pretty cool stuff.

I note a lack of tentacle rape in your description.

I believe what I was programmed to believe!

Nah, seriously. I'm in the "Really neat, natural formation" camp. Nature throws up stuff all the time that makes you look at it and say "there's no way that just happened naturally." Look at the Giants Causeway. As cool as it would be to believe in some mystical precursor civilization, I just don't see it. But then again, the ocean is a really big place, and we haven't explored very much of it at all.

momgamer wrote:

The real thing I see missing here is the "missing" city in Japanese mythology or history. It's one thing to find supposed remains, but it's rare for whole cultures to vanish without any sort of trace at all. Especially in an area as continuously and homogenously populated as Japan. Someone would have mentioned the lost Whoevers; particularly if they built on that scale. Has anyone here heard/found anything like that?

Even a missing culture from 8,000 BC? They suggest this was "built" in the last Ice Age, I'd think that rising tides would pretty much erase any hint of their existence.

But their legends live on. Try googling "lost culture 8000 years ago". The first page lists off five or six right there on three continents. Some mythological, some with actual physical evidence.

That's why I asked if anyone knew of any Japanese legends of a lost people who drowned or disappeared in some fashion.

Did anyone watch the video? I swear that was George Takei (sp?) the guy from Star Trek.

10,000 old pyramids? This is just God testing our faith, people. Nothing to see there. Move on.

The Clovis people, for example. Something like 13,000 years ago. Also, probably killed by a meteor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_... - not ideal, but I'm lazy.

momgamer wrote:

But their legends live on. Try googling "lost culture 8000 years ago". The first page lists off five or six right there on three continents. Some mythological, some with actual physical evidence.

I with you, but at the same time we know what we know but we don't know what we don't know.

Gorilla.800.lbs wrote:

10,000 old pyramids? This is just God testing our faith, people. Nothing to see there. Move on.

Using a fairy tale to cover up reality is never a good idea.

LiquidMantis wrote:
momgamer wrote:

But their legends live on. Try googling "lost culture 8000 years ago". The first page lists off five or six right there on three continents. Some mythological, some with actual physical evidence.

I with you, but at the same time we know what we know but we don't know what we don't know.

Well, we do know that about 8,000-10,000 years ago, humans were just mastering the basics of "hey, maybe we don't have to wander the Earth like David Carradine looking for something to eat, maybe we can just grow it" routine. Written language, a pretty essential ingredient for any non-nomadic advanced civilization, didn't come for another couple of millenia.

I'd be more impressed if that pyramid had writing carved on it...7,000 years before the Sumerians figured out cuneiform.

I know! The Creator (That's you! the player.) did a reset half-way into the civilization phase of the game and the in-planet editor didn't delete all the old game's buildings before re-teraforming.