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> men were frightened of celestial phenomena such as thunder and lightning … and imagined that the gods were responsible for these things That's understandable

> men were frightened of celestial phenomena such as thunder and lightning … and imagined that the gods were responsible for these things That's understandable, although today conspiracy theorists are more likely to blame bad weather on Geo-engineering and fake man-made weather. Look at Dubai for example: https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/dubai-making-its-own-rain-to-beat-120-degree-heat/ https://nypost.com/2021/07/21/dubai-making-its-own-rain-to-b... > Officials in Dubai are using drones to artificially increase rainfall as the city grapples with oppressive heat, video this week shows. Geo-engineers are the new 'gods'

azalemeth 5y ago
That's a very HN take on a tale of what might be a real life near-Atlantis! For me, the thing I love about the classics is that people are still people, just with a lot less knowledge of science and engineering than we have, a lot more knowledge of things we are trying to discover about them, and a rather different moral philosophy. The fact that neighbouring villages sent scouts to investigate the disappearance and discussed it at length is interesting, for example -- some times the deaths of thousands warrant at most a cursory sentence along the lines of "Thebes was plagued". The geography really has moved a surprising amount since those days too -- e.g. Rome's ancient harbour is now decidedly inland. I wonder if a combined large-scale geophysical search together with airborne ground penetrating radar is remotely feasible over the sort of huge area they might consider.