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Mysterious Object Found In Seabed

Posted by Unknown on from the so-that's-where-i-left-my-spaceship dept.

iONiUM writes "Scientists have found a strange object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland. While claims are flying around that its a UFO that strangely resembles the Millennium Falcon, it is probably something more benign."

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  1. Re:lol Daily Mail by BeardedChimp · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm actually quite annoyed at this. I foolishly clicked the link without checking where it led (just wanted a peak at the pictures). The daily mail is a disgusting newspapers that spreads lies and promotes racist and homophobic agendas. The damage it has caused to vaccination in the UK is more than enough reason to boycott it and I am now ashamed to have provided them a hit.

  2. Re:Did many Bothnians die... by Baloroth · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its a Bothan who lives in the Gulf of Bothnia. Which is where this was found. Which is why it's doubly funny. Triply since it seems to have whooshed all of /. Despite the fact that at least 3 people have made this exact joke.

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  3. Re:lol Daily Mail by jfengel · · Score: 5, Informative

    I came here to gripe about the same thing. If I'd realized that this was the Daily Fail, I wouldn't have clicked.

    Here's the site of Team Ocean Explorer, who actually did the discovery:

    http://www.oceanexplorer.se/videos.html

    Those videos were posted on YouTube a month ago, so not only is this news-by-press-release, but it's OLDs-by-press-release.

  4. Re:lol Daily Mail by geekoid · · Score: 3, Informative

    This might be more accurate:
      "A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scienticians are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens."

    Emphasis and change added by me.

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  5. Re:lol Daily Mail by newcastlejon · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's an article from the Daily Fail, which means a metric fuckton of salt assuming you're brain-dead enough to buy that rag in the first place. Non-Brits are forgiven for not knowing about the DM... in fact privileged would be a better word.

    Here's a rule of thumb, though: "scientists say X" in the DM should be read as "we made up X". This is science we're talking about, so name that boffin or it never happened.

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