Yes,
The Curse of Oak Island returned last night, but as it has dragged on, the program has become a reality show more than a documentary series, and the deaths of two cast members make it much less fun to criticize the increasingly rickety program. When and if they uncover anything worth mentioning, I might return to talking about it.
The
Daily Mail ran another of its stupid clickbait articles, and it has earned quite a bit of play across the fringe internet for reasons that baffle me. The
new article implies, without bothering to explain, that the city of Nan Madol, in the South Pacific, had something to do with the lost continent of Atlantis. The news peg is that the Science Channel took some satellite images of the city, which
the internet quickly misunderstood as meaning that Nan Madol had been "newly" discovered. This, in turn, prompted the
Daily Mail to write about the online speculation as though it had substance.
Technically, the article doesn't say that Nan Madol is itself Atlantis. That would be fairly impossible since Atlantis appeared in the works of Plato nearly two millenniums before Nan Madol was built. But, the
Mail writes that "New footage of an ancient city in the middle of the Pacific Ocean has sparked theories that the fictional island of Atlantis could be real." This was the article's only mention of Atlantis, despite the sensational headline; the body of the article contains claims recycled from previous articles about Nan Madol, because
basically the Mail is a click farm masquerading as a newspaper.
Comment: One almost gets used to seeing very old pictures with those dulled tones which can fool us into thinking that's how things actually appeared; seeing them cleaned up really does bring them to life.
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