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Mahtim!
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Good afternoon,
gentlemen.
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First off, I'd like
to thank this board...
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for taking the time
to hear my proposal.
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Now, we've all heard
of the legend of Atlantis...
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a continent somewhere
in the mid-Atlantic...
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that was home
to an advanced civilization...
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possessing technology
far beyond our own...
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that, according
to our friend Plato here...
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was suddenly struck
by some cataclysmic event...
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that sank it
beneath the sea.
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Now, some of you may ask,
why Atlantis?
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It's just a myth, isn't it?
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Pure fantasy.
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Well, that is
where you'd be wrong.
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10,000 years
before the Egyptians...
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built the pyramids...
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Atlantis had electricity,
advanced medicine...
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even the power of flight.
Impossible, you say?
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Well, no.
No, not for them.
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Numerous ancient cultures
all over the globe agree...
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that Atlantis possessed
a power source of some kind...
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more powerful than steam,
than-than coal.
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More powerful than
our modern...
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internal combustion engines.
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Gentlemen, I propose
that we find Atlantis...
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find that power source...
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and bring it back
to the surface.
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Now, this is a page
from an illuminated text...
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that describes a book called
the Shepherd's Journal...
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said to have been
a first-hand account...
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of Atlantis
and its exact whereabouts.
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Now, based on a centuries-old
translation of a Norse text...
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historians have believed
the Journal resides in Ireland.
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But after
comparing the text...
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to the runes
on this Viking shield...
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I found that
one of the letters...