Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "Atlantis is dead" video.

It belongs in a museum!
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@Bingobanana4789 Other people repeating Plato's fable. No sources that are independent from Plato. If you're going to claim otherwise, tell us what they are.
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@Bingobanana4789 Vaguely similar myths, sure. Stefan has discussed those and flood myths in previous videos.
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@DrumToTheBassWoop IIRC he told of a terrible war between Atlantis and Athens, which would be kind of difficult since ancient Athens has been very widely excavated and all the evidence shows that it was completely uninhabited at the time Plato was talking about.
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@christianwhittaker6718 Sure, it MIGHT conceivably be true. But there's precisely zero evidence. If you're going to say that everything we think know about prehistory is wrong, that's a pretty big claim that requires pretty big evidence.
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@jasperfilardo All modern cities are NOT on the coasts. Many are, many are not. Two of the five largest cities in the Americas are located hundreds of miles from the sea, and in the eastern hemisphere you have Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Moscow, Beijing, Delhi, Seoul, Cairo, Kinshasa, all located well inland. And this has always been true. The largest cities of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and the Indus Valley Civilization were all inland.
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@Patrix8558 "but there is a difference of finding pottery from year 0 and pottery from before the ice age." Yes! The difference is that we've found mountains of it from classical times and not one single solitary shard anywhere on the planet from before the ice age.
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@Scy You're just showing how little you understand about archaeology. Metal can last many thousands of years in the right conditions, and all of those things will leave traces of their existence under the right conditions. How do you think we know what dinosaur skeletons look like? Almost none of the actual bone has survived tens of millions of years, it was fossilized, meaning the bone decayed and was replaced by minerals that were different from the surrounding substance. The same would happen with plastic. Likewise all those perfect casts we have of human bodies in Pompeii - none of the flesh survived, but it left an impression in the volcanic ash that lasted 2,000 years and probably would last another million if they hadn't been excavated, slowly being filled by minerals that were again different from the original calcified ash. But the big problem you face is that if no evidence could survive the intervening years, how do we have so MUCH evidence of all the less advanced hunter-gatherers who lived at the same time? If you're right, we should have no evidence of them either, but we have mountains of it. Btw no one, literally no one works from an assumption of an Aryan invasion of India any more, that's a straw man Hindu nationalists love to trot out to cover for the complete lack of evidence for their pet (and equally racist) theories about all world civilizations coming from India.
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@joelt2002 "If this "advanced" civilization only made up 1% of the total population of that time" But that simply isn't possible if it was a globe-spanning civilization. That would require agriculture and agriculture supports MUCH denser populations than hunting and gathering. The entire world population at the end of the Ice Age was no more than 1-1.5 million people, and 1% of that couldn't possibly support an advanced, globe-spanning civilization. Also, such a civilization would produce far more technical artifacts per person, it couldn't possibly not do so.
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@Jean428 No, it isn't. it would be valid if he was claiming a tiny, relatively isolated civilization existed, but that wouldn't fit his theory's need for a massive, globe-spanning civilization that influenced hundreds of societies thousands of miles apart on at least five continents.
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@jholt03 "Even today the vast majority of major cities are located on the coasts or along major rivers." Sure, but many of those cities are hundreds, even thousands of feet above sea level, not on coastal plains - Mexico City, one of the oldest and largest cities in the Americas, is more than 2000 meters above sea level.
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@Patrix8558 No, there is not. You're mixing your time-scale up. There is a very little, very primitive pottery from the ice age itself, up to maybe 18,000 years ago. Before the ice age was over 2.5 million years ago. That's before genus Homo even emerged, our ancestors then were australopithecines barely even making very primitive stone tools. We hadn't even started using fire.
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@anniealexander9911 Antarctica has already been proposed. Pseudos love to point out how fossil remains of tropical rain forests have been found there without mentioning that those forests existed tens of millions of years ago when Antarctica was thousands of miles north of its current location, not 20,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene.
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@joelt2002 Dense and widespread don't have anything to do with each other. Chinese culture is both dense and widespread.
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@varana Concrete will degrade so that it no longer has the structural properties it did when poured. And much more so if left exposed to the elements. But if it's buried, the chemical difference between the concrete and the surrounding material will still be evident a million or more years later, unless some geological catastrophe destroys the entire layer.
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Yup.
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@erook2019 Except the Sahara has never been in the middle of the f**king ocean! At least, not in the last few million years.
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@buzzlightyear3715 Ancient Greeks and Romans also had the name Milo.
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I think Plato just made it up. There is precisely zero evidence of any such myth existing in Greece before Plato wrote it.
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@Rhaenarys Plato didn't hear about it from anyone, he just made it up. There is zero evidence that anyone on the planet had ever heard about Atlantis before Plato published his fable. It was not a myth until he made it one.
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@Patrix8558 Yeah, that makes a lot more sense.
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@nellcorkin5732 Yes, yes it was. Plato just made it up as a fable. I'm sure he had no idea that people 2,400 years later would think he was talking about actual events. It's like asking where the race of the tortoise vs the hare took place, or what the names of the wise and foolish virgins were.
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@joshsimpson10 "If you knew anything about the kind of catastrophe that triggered and ended the younger dryas you wouldn't be surprised there is scant evidence of much of anything from the Pleistocene era." But that's the problem for Hancock. We have LOTS of evidence of things from the Pleistocene Era. There are hundreds of sites, thousands of artifacts, evidence of the food people ate and the tools they used and even the art they produced. And all of it is completely inconsistent with Hancock's claims. It's not a question of what sort of catastrophe could destroy all the evidence of human life, it's a question of what sort of catastrophe could selectively destroy ONLY the evidence of advanced civilizations in hundreds of different places but not the evidence of the paleolithic hunter-gatherers living in the same areas. And if you have any ideas in that regard I'd love to hear them. This is the biggest problem with all of Hancock's claims. A small advanced civilization confined to, say, the deep Amazon might have escaped discovery by modern science. A massive, globe-spanning, technologically sophisticated civilization doing so is extremely improbable to say the least. But a small, isolated civilization doesn't fill the hole he claims to see based on comparative mythology.
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