Post by dans on Mar 22, 2023 1:05:44 GMT
It seems unlikely though that each Atlantis offshoot forgot about all the others; Atlantean technology was at a high enough level that there should have at least been radio contact between the cities... or maybe not, radio doesn't work well underwater. But one would think that technology good enough to keep out the water for centuries at the bottom of the ocean might think about running a cable up to a buoy with transmitting receiving equipment, controlled through the cable.
Perhaps the disaster happened relatively slowly and in stages, and the various factions went to war with each other over diminishing land and resources, and they all became such bitter enemies that they never bothered to get in touch with anyone outside their own cities again and eventually, either just naturally or perhaps because their leadership guided their education, they forgot the other factions totally after a few centuries of isolation. Could also be that cataclysm was so overwhelming that a large portion of the populace became mentally unstable. In all the Atlantis stories I read, the citizens of these undersea cities seem to be very similar in their psychology to land-dwelling humans - I think growing up penned in a small domed area knowing that the environment around you would crush you instantly if the dome failed might actually produce beings very strange to humans, no matter how human they look...
Probably there is no general explanation that fits all of these cities. Now I'm kind of wondering why back in the late 40s when the JSA was traveling all over time and space, no writer ever sent them back to the Atlantean cataclysm to try and help the Atlantean people survive...
Perhaps the disaster happened relatively slowly and in stages, and the various factions went to war with each other over diminishing land and resources, and they all became such bitter enemies that they never bothered to get in touch with anyone outside their own cities again and eventually, either just naturally or perhaps because their leadership guided their education, they forgot the other factions totally after a few centuries of isolation. Could also be that cataclysm was so overwhelming that a large portion of the populace became mentally unstable. In all the Atlantis stories I read, the citizens of these undersea cities seem to be very similar in their psychology to land-dwelling humans - I think growing up penned in a small domed area knowing that the environment around you would crush you instantly if the dome failed might actually produce beings very strange to humans, no matter how human they look...
Probably there is no general explanation that fits all of these cities. Now I'm kind of wondering why back in the late 40s when the JSA was traveling all over time and space, no writer ever sent them back to the Atlantean cataclysm to try and help the Atlantean people survive...
