I've seen more extensive footage of this place, though, and I'm convinced it is natural not man made. People have focused on the horizontal and vertical right angles, but they haven't considered the site from above.

If this were an ancient building, it must have been designed by a diseased mind. All the apparent "rooms" and "steps" are at awkward and oblique angles, creating narrow and fractured shapes what would have been un-usable by anyone other than leprechauns.

Consider this, if it were man made, it would also have been used by man. Man builds squares, rectangles and circles for his own use. These are convenient shapes and the easiest to design.

Although I believe that there are anci...

I've seen more extensive footage of this place, though, and I'm convinced it is natural not man made. People have focused on the horizontal and vertical right angles, but they haven't considered the site from above.

If this were an ancient building, it must have been designed by a diseased mind. All the apparent "rooms" and "steps" are at awkward and oblique angles, creating narrow and fractured shapes what would have been un-usable by anyone other than leprechauns.

Consider this, if it were man made, it would also have been used by man. Man builds squares, rectangles and circles for his own use. These are convenient shapes and the easiest to design.

Although I believe that there are ancient civilizations we haven't discovered, I'll bet $100 (if that's worth anything anymore) that this isn't one of them.

Although I'm not a geologist or a structural engineer, from the video I've seen of this site, I would say that the shapes that have been identified as "rooms" which I critique do not appear to have been altered by some sort of collapse. (That seldom effects the footprint of a room or staircase, but rather just covers it in debris.)

But, this raises another point often overlooked by amateur archaeologists, TV Hosts, Theosophists and the rest of that loony gang:

Actual man-made structures seldom reveal themselves through their striking geometry but rather through signs of inhabitation. Nature generally erodes our right angles, since we tend to use quite mailable materials which are more work...

Although I'm not a geologist or a structural engineer, from the video I've seen of this site, I would say that the shapes that have been identified as "rooms" which I critique do not appear to have been altered by some sort of collapse. (That seldom effects the footprint of a room or staircase, but rather just covers it in debris.)

But, this raises another point often overlooked by amateur archaeologists, TV Hosts, Theosophists and the rest of that loony gang:

Actual man-made structures seldom reveal themselves through their striking geometry but rather through signs of inhabitation. Nature generally erodes our right angles, since we tend to use quite mailable materials which are more workable but less durable.

There are no signs of inhabitation or use in this site, a point conceded by those pushing the sight rather sensationalisticaly as the "Asian Atlantis." Their arguments rely on the logic that angular geometry (squares, straight lines, right angles, octagons, etc.) don't exist in nature. (Even though I'm not a Geologist, I know enough to know that isn't true!) They have also identified fanciful designs in the cracks in the rocks, which strikes me as very similar to finding shapes in clouds.

On the whole, although there are some interesting angles on the whole thing, but they don't add up to anything. There are no clear functional buildings or monuments, just some interesting rocks.

Mu? Interestingly enough, Mu is an excellent example of the sort of nonsense going on here. Mu has nothing to do with Asia, even though identical in romanization to the Japanese reading of the Chinese character "wu" (popularized by Zen hippsters, Discordians and other goofy bunches of people who only marginally understand what the word means).

The term was coined in the 19th Century by travel writer Augustus Le Plongeon. It was proposed as the theoretical "lost continent" source of the Mayans in Mesoamerica, and is derived from a translational error made by Charles de Bourbourg.

It was then popularized by the British occultist James Churchward in a few books based on his subjective specu...

Mu? Interestingly enough, Mu is an excellent example of the sort of nonsense going on here. Mu has nothing to do with Asia, even though identical in romanization to the Japanese reading of the Chinese character "wu" (popularized by Zen hippsters, Discordians and other goofy bunches of people who only marginally understand what the word means).

The term was coined in the 19th Century by travel writer Augustus Le Plongeon. It was proposed as the theoretical "lost continent" source of the Mayans in Mesoamerica, and is derived from a translational error made by Charles de Bourbourg.

It was then popularized by the British occultist James Churchward in a few books based on his subjective speculations, not actual evidence. I classify this as "New Age Fiction."

Since then the idea has mostly found appeal in works of fiction, since modern our scientific understanding of geology pretty much precludes the possiblity of a continent or island "sinking." (Since continents and islands are made of less dense rock than the sea floor.)

Mu is the product of conjecture and wistful thinking in a vacuum of evidence. It is a fun diversion, but shouldn't be confused with anything more substantial then myths of Sisyphus or Orpheus. (Both of which I believe are more potent and meaningful as far as mythology is concerned.)

It all makes about as much sense as devoting your life to the religious worship of your favorite science-fiction novel, which, coincidentally, is exactly what Discordians, Scientologists and Theosophists do.

Normally I'd just let it all slide, but it was particularly painful to see this junk being pedaled by the National Geographic Society. Fortunately, I think this is just a cynical commercial ploy to increase circulation among the ignorant Discovery Channel crowd, rather than that they actually believe this crap. Of course, that's a pretty bleak best-case-scenario.