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Mysterious Object Found In Seabed
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."
An "object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland" could hardly be classified as a flying object, unidentified or otherwise.
In the Daily Mail - it must be true! Also this line was cute: "his team do not have the money or resources to examine the shape further. If it does turn out to be a UFO it will be priceless". All that's needed is an address so I can send the cheque!
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We should start using loldailymail that as a story tag, to indicate that it just isn't good enough for idle.
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Yucca Mountain would be a strange location for an undersea sanctuary.
I am a scientist (B.A. in Comp Sci at a small liberal arts school) and I speculate that it is a highly improbable series of single-bit errors in their image-processing software. Either that a relic of the Grand Disc Tossing tournaments held circa 17,500 years ago by the Methane Frost Giants of Titan.
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Everyone keeps saying this looks like the Millennium Falcon, but it's clearly a Cylon Raider. Or maybe it's one of the fighter ships Will Smith shot down in Independence Day. Either way, I'm sure we could only wish it were someone as friendly as Han and his wookiee friend.
A low-budget remake of "The Maltese Falcon" perhaps?
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I can guarantee you, there were no (real) Scientists involved in this "UFO" hypothesis. No scientist worth his salt is going to jump to a claim like that based on evidence that looks like a sawn-off tree trunk in a flooded marsh. Until physical samples are taken from it, it's all vapor.
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