Pixelated Semantics

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Simulated news is definitely circumstantial

The ABC reports a "US researcher" says he has "definitely" found the lost civilisation of Atlantis:

"We cannot yet provide tangible proof [cut] but the circumstantial and other evidence is irrefutable..."

At a news conference the "researcher" provided only animated simulations. In other words, providing resemblance of discovery is sufficient to gain media coverage even where there is a complete lack of substance, as long as the simulations are "sexed-up" enough.

Update: as anticipated, German physicist Christian Huebscher said he had identified the phenomenon not as ruins of Atlantis, but as "100,000 year-old volcanoes that spewed mud". Interestingly, a Google trawl to research this story also turned up an press release from November 10 that "scuba divers have found an underwater El Dorado" off the coast of La Paz, Mexico - in this case an underwater volcano, (known as a seamount). It goes on to state that "until recently divers needed to kluge together a wide variety of sources, some more true than others, in locating this proverbial Atlantis." In the end, we have Atlantis revealled as an underwater volcano, an underwater volcano described as Atlantis, and a distinct, if normal, lack of reality all round.

Item posted by AutoEditor at 10:43 am ::