Militants control the weather

The settlement of the Pacific remains a mystery to this day.  The vastness of the Pacific as well as the lack of concern by historians has made tracing the origin of the Polynesians, at best, difficult. While anthropologists agree that there are at least three races in the Pacific region, they have not agreed on where they came from or when the Pacific was settled.

Evidence now suggests that man may have ventured out into the Pacific over 30,000 years ago. New discoveries in partially submerged caves in New Ireland, a long narrow island east of New Guinea, are proving that man reached these islands tens of thousands of years ago.

Plato's Atlantis is fully tropical, with many forests, rivers and canals full of fragrant fruits, perfumes and luxuriant vegetation.

The goal of finding Atlantis is not just finding some old buildings - there are plenty of those, most of them still undisturbed deep underground. The real desire is to possess their legendary technology, which is more of a general vision for most people than any actual specific object, even though they don't know what that might be.

Among the accomplishments of the Atlanteans, for example, was "perfect" weather control.  Now the average immediate notion is of abundant fields of waving grain in endless summer alongside the most beautiful of beaches.  They had that, and it bored them; too utilitarian to them, like we might look at a vineyard.  They left such backlands to the serving creatures.  The Atlanteans had come into the physical world essentially for the stimulation.  They loved storms.  Whole areas of their land were given over, like national parks, to violent displays of atmospheric turbulence.  Their servants, of course, were less fond of these events, which could in the equivalent of "artisitic license" spill over and kill them, destroy their homes, etc.  If the Atlanteans 1) noticed, and 2) cared, they could restore all this damage at will.

The real core of Atlantean technology that can still be dug up around the earth was far beyond something as simple as weather control.  What has attracted the military like carrion is the "threshold" technology.  Some hint of this just floated up in the movie Stargate, except that the Atlantean version could be called "Probability Gate."  It's a solid-state device (with no selectable "dial" like the stargate in the movie, for instance) that uses what we think of as time/space as an energy source. The threshold is a lens into probable existence streams, or continua.