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Remote New Zealand Volcano Sees Dinosaur Alert?
Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing to a ChannelNewsAsia story discussing a 'dinosaur' sighting in webcam pictures of a remote New Zealand volcano. The latest live webcam picture shows the offending creature, with Geonet spokesperson John Callan saying: "Some wag has glued a [toy] pink dinosaur in front of our digital camera", even though "...most people do not go ashore on the uninhabited, rumbling" White Island, east of Auckland, where the webcam is located. Apparently, the dinosaur will stay for now, since authorities "are not planning on removing it, counting on the sulphur and high acid environment to deal to the creature."
"Some wag" is a cop out. They did it and are afraid to admit it. Who else would have the necessary safety equipment to put the toy there, other than the people who put the web cam there, and who else would know exactly where the web cam was on an island that "people don't go on"? We're expected to believe "some wag" jusy happened along in that forbidding scenery and just happened to be carrying that particular toy, and happened to find that aprticular spot and know what the thing was attached to?
"I may be synthetic, but I'm not stupid." -- Bishop 341-B
... to go unnamed.
Actually, there IS no other news, which is why this made it to the front page.
Who has the time to go up a volcano to pull a global prank? Only a geek
Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
Slashdot points to BoingBoing points to ChannelNewsAsia points to a webcam pointing at New Zealand?
I think I'm getting dizzy..
Not that this wasn't entirely predictable.
I can't think of a better place for Barney than an un-inhabited island!
Of couse a web-cam Barney could give new meaning to the song, "I love you, You love me......"
hehehe
B-)
A friend will come and bail you out of jail, a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "damn that was fun!"
Thanks to BoingBoing for pointing
Shouldn't that read BamBam?
After turning up the audio gain for the web cam, said dinosaur was heard to vocalize: "Buh-buh-buh-buh-buh-buh!!!"
IAALS.
It's an ad for Jurassic Park IV Sorry for the lousy link. Had to beat the mind readers to the punch. Hope I made it.
What?
That's not a dinosaur, it's Smaug! He's escaped from the set of Peter Jackon's The Hobbit and is trying to nest!
If they don't do something quickly, this could be even worse than the incident when all those orcs got loose during the Battle of Helm's Deep filming and slaughtered that busload of Japanese tourists!
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Agreed. I went there out of curiosity--to see the Dinosaur. When I saw "Dino" I almost blew a half a can of Mt. Dew at my laptop....LOL! That's classic!
And we get to watch Dino slowly melt into purple goo.
in bed.
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...Until they see the picture and realise that Dino is a purple dinosaur.
There are only 10 kinds of people in this world... those who understand binary and those who don't
If plastics melt in this particular enviroment, what is the webcam made out of?
C:\earth\humans\del *.m0ronz
I've always wanted to decorate boring webcams but I've never been able to find one in public =/ I wanted to put a big picture of some scenery in front of one so the owner would think it had moved.
and it certainly is not fuckin east of auckland!
May I remind you that this is Slashdot, which is an American site, and to Americans, anything outside of the US is called Foreignland and everybody speaks Foreigner. (Oh yes, and some parts of Foreignland have oil, and those inhabitants who happen to live near the oil may be tortured at will, in order to surrender said oil).
Anyway, the point is, to an American, you're just a Foreign citizen who happen to speak their tongue natively, and they really don't give a shit where you are exactly, or where is White Island and Auckland for that matter. What matters is that they recognized Dino on the picture, and also... oooh, shiny!...
The real thing is that scientists are conducting experiments on the poor little thing by testing the limit that Dino can reach in an inhospitable environment. Please stop the insanity and save the dinosaur.
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Yahh, hiii haaaaa! -Major Kong, from Dr. Strangelove
Great... so how long will it be till guys start sending messages to the volcano asking it to get naked and make out with Dino? Oh wait... that'd be bad...
Question everything that you've accepted without thinking.
Anyone else think it would make a neat GeoCaching point!
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the dinosaur _is_ there, I work at GNS and our internet is really slow thanks to you lot.
I, for one, welcome our new dinosaur overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted volcanologist, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sulphur caves.
That server is so gone, if you know anything anout NZ IT inferstructure you'll know that. Hell our back bone is probably browning out right now.
I always told em, 'Copper wire! NOT No.8 wire! you fools!'
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What's this "Foreign" area you keep talking about? Is that part of Nebraska?
Something like the stuff on happytreefriends.com (MAY NOT BE CHILDREN FRIENDLY)?
Neeat ;)
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Next thing you know - BAM! One of the three-eyed aliens from Toy Story in a photo from a mars rover! Scheming pranksters...
The dinosaur is contravening OSH guidelines by not wearing a hard hat.
Is it that hard to recognize that Dino is lavender? :-)
Sorry, here on /. we can only see the male color palette. Female-visible color shades like lavender and fuscia are simply purple and pink, respectively.
That would be pretty evil to have a Geocache on an active volcano.
Foreigner didn't speak, they sang.
And I bet if they'd turn the cam a little bit to the side, they'd notice the dead body lying there, after he couldn't get away fast enough. And all the world is laughing at the dinosaur instead.
Scary thought that is.