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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."
Regurgitated by a giant squid...?
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What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
Somebody round up Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson!
"While claims are flying around that its a UFO that strangely resembles the Millennium Falcon,"
Everyone knows when you let a Wookie fly your insurance rates go up for a reason.
That ninth parsec is a bitch to navigate!
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An "object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland" could hardly be classified as a flying object, unidentified or otherwise.
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Did you read the article? No scientists said that, just people who read the article speculating that it might be a UFO.
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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Did you read the article?
The first line is "A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens." Emphasis added.
After further study, scientists discovered that the object consisted almost entirely of old discarded IKEA furniture.
Maybe he can examine the skeletal remains of the pilot.
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I like the emphasis, it should be in the original article. It really makes it sound way nuttier.
If I can just reach out with my words and touch a butthole, just one, it will all be worth it.
That's not Millenium Falcon. The galaxy is too far away. But it's clearly a Dralthi, Kilrathi medium fighter.
...Bothnians died to get us this information.
People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
Needs some quote marks add.
I think it is alive as at the top right of the item it looks like there is a smiley face in the grainy sonar image. It must like having its picture taken.
Time to offend someone
Damn, Tom Cruise was right after all.
It really should be called a USO (Unidentified Swimming Object) instead.. harr!
In all seriousness, intelligent life is not the only force capable of producing circles. Nature does this all the time, in form of craters, bubbles, sinkholes, erosion (like in rivers or currents)... that could be anything. To me it looks like some sort of crater that has been naturally filled in with some sort of substance, like sand.
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
Never heard anything about this in any Swedish media what so ever, not even our crappy papers that posts every new "UFO autopsy in Russia" video they find.
"Scientists " must be the most misused phrase ever.
It's a viral publicity stunt. Either that, or it's where Lucas hid the evidence that HAN SHOT FIRST!
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"The shape was found at the bottom of the Gulf of Bothnia during a search for a sunken wreck which contained several cases of champagne."
Many Bothnians died to bring us this information...
I am a scientist, and my speculation is that it is a giant washer. Either that or it is a ginormous viking shield accidentally dropped overboard after a raid.
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FTA: "Researchers have claimed the fuzzy outline is a flying saucer that ended up 300ft down on the ocean floor between Sweden and Finland."
They found this weeks ago, how come they haven't sent a diver down to look at it yet.
Slaver in a stasis field. Don't open it. It's a trap.
Apparently they were searching for a wreck that contained 'several cases' of champagne.
Which surprises me. I'd expect they wouldn't put on a full salvage operation for less then a couple of boxes of Vodka.
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Why does /. still listed to this drivel?
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Perhaps they'll find one really wet wookiee.
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Without a direct quote and the name of the scientist, these lines are best taken with a grain of sea salt.
Am I the only one that thought of Sphere? Granted, it's in the wrong body of water and shaped wrong (I think the novel described it as something like a B2), but.... you know. Underwater ship that might have previously been used for extraplanetary travel...
Fine, I'll go back to work.
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No. It's UIO - unidentified immersed object.
I awlasy knew that we came from a different world, and that we were not here by nature, more like a terraforming experiment of some superior race (ourselves 20 ,000 generations from now)....i guess this could be that terraforming soucoupe...?
It's just the result of a few drunk Swedes and Fins with diving suits goofing off after a hard night of drinking...
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For you UFO researchers who know this is no mere rock formation, you can learn more about the alien civilization whose ship this is by reading up on the legendary Apophenia alien civilization. This will tell you all about who put this clearly recognizable spaceship on the sea floor.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
My guess is that it's lost cargo that fell off of a ship. There are a number of Swedish and Finnish port cities along the Gulf of Bothnia. Luleå, for example, ships 7 million tons of cargo a year - much of it iron ore from mining. The object in question is probably some large piece of mining equipment.
10,000 shipping containers are lost into the sea across the globe each year. It's not unreasonable that some poorly secured piece of cargo slid off the deck of a cargo vessel, known only to the cargo company and their insurance company.
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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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.
Underwater Flooded Object
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And of course by "scientists", they mean a group of guys with a boat and sonar equipment.
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You can't handle the truth.
"A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens."
Anyone who makes such wild accusations on such little evidence can hardly be called a scientist.
A mysterious "circle" on a grainy scan, "this" is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that "Earth" has been "visited" by aliens.
How can they possibly be misinterpreted! https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars) The human senses are the least reliable form of identification. They're programmed to see certain things, and to fit an image into their expectations when they're not.
Usually people see faces in almost everything..
now why is everybody here seeing spaceships in this object?
It's clearly an old style Cylon fighter btw!
Can't we send a diver down there with a specialized mixed-gas diving setup?
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.
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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.
USO works, but for the wrong reason. It's not really swimming... it's an Unidentified Sunken Object. To be more precise though, it's an Underwater Unidentified Formation.
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I'm actually quite annoyed at this. I foolishly clicked the link without checking where it led ... and I am now ashamed to have provided them a hit.
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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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Well if it is aliens, its good to know their ships can crash just like all of ours. Helps to see that they aren't perfect, regardless of any advanced technology or 'magic' they could do.
Or its just some asshole billionaire's life size remote control millenium falcon that he lost control of and it crashed into the sea.
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it's obviously a crater from a anti-submarine depth-charge.
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Daily Mail, Gizmodo, pretty much the same thing.
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"..geologists have said it was naturally formed."
Not geologist, apparently.
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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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here is a hint:
If it mentions finding an UFO, don't bother.
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U*F*O? The fecker ain't flying so it's just a UO, along with the gazillions of other UOs seen with sonar on the seabed..
That's a pretty good rule. Still, it's an unknown object, and that's mildly curious.
The fact that there's whinging about a "UFO" means that I'd be just as well off waiting until they go down and discover the perfectly ordinary object that's causing the signal. Some people enjoy the speculation beforehand, and that's fine.
Just not from the Daily Fail. Pick a less nauseating and less criminal source of unfounded speculation.
That is, if it is an Object. Otherwise it would just be a UW, Unidentified Whatever.
anyone found it on google.maps?
Could it be a crater from a WW-II depth charge? ...It's only 300 feet from the surface.
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Especially considering that the thing is underwater, hence by nature not flying as in 'Unidentified FLYING Object', unless they have reworked the acronym and it now means: Underwater Falcon-like Object.
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.
If God forks the Universe every time you roll a die, he'd better have a damned good memory.
It's covered by 300 ft of water??? We'll NEVER be able to find out what it is for sure!
Do not think about going inside The Sphere. No just try not to think about that. It's so dangerous the people from the future tried to hide it in the past at the bottom of the ocean.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
It's pinin' for the fjords.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
The Thing came from a round saucer. The detachable section from ST:TNG was also round.
I hope Picard is inside, but we'd better prepare for the former.
No need to read the sensationalist newspaper, just go straight to the original source instead. In english, ofc...
This is actually a quite interesting find, though far from the story described in the Daily Mail.
There's nothing to suggest that this couldn't be natural or human-made at this point, so that should be the null hypothesis. This chart helps explain that if a human can recreate a UFO sighting, then that's probably the case.
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The boobs on the right side of the article are a bad thing to have on your screen at work.
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It will only empty the shallow seas, though. The big plug is to be found, yet.
"A mysterious circle on a grainy scan, this is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that Earth has been visited by aliens."
So we've set the bar pretty low to call someone a scientist, eh?
or else!
We better not be violating the second Benthic treaty, that's all I have to say...
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The Daily Mail (a publication named by people whose typing is so bad that they hit M when they aimed for F) fails on all three counts. It has never yet displayed competence (immigrants are coming over here and stealing all of the competence, apparently). It does not report news. It is printed on something approximating paper, so I suppose you can give it half a point there. Half out of six is still greater than the accuracy of their stories (a most appropriate term for the contents of their articles).
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The same ones that developed various bullshit medicines and think climate change theories are wrong, I guess :-P
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From what can be seen in that video, it could be either the chimney in a steam ship or a gun turret in a war ship from the first half of the 20th century.
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I am surprised that no one has mentioned the Russian monitor Novgorod, which is about the right size. Scrapped in 1912, I am not sure where, but a lot of old boats did final duty as targets for weapon testing.
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"A reflective statue is found at the bottom of one of Earth's oceans, having lain there for 1.5 billion years.
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Or, more likely, evidence that the piece of land was previously above water at one time in Earth's past and got struck by a large meteorite.
Oh, and some random hunks of rock fell on top of it since then.
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That you could be wrong.
If it's any consolation, M and F are next to each other on a Linotype keyboard, which would have been popular at the time of the newspaper's founding in the 1890s.
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...and I can't use any of them to downmod this stupid story.
Clearly it's just a weather balloon.
Not only the Daily Mail, but the Daily Mail in August. You might as well get your news from the Beano.
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They should send it to CSI to enhance it.
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[i]Ocean Explorer [b]off course[/b][/i] (sic)...
Unidentified Fallen Object, its fallen and it can't get up.
[READS TFA] Oh noes! It's in the Daily Fail! We's alls gonnas dies!
OK, got that out of the way. Reading further ... 60ft (about 18m ; trust the Daily Fail to use retard-measures) in diameter ; irregular profile including a more-or-less circular outline and transverse straight lines on an incomplete orthogonal grid. Sure looks "manufactured".
Now what, in the sea between Sweden and Finland, could make an 18m diameter mark on the seabed 86m down? I'd go for a spud can.
("Wossat?" I hear you say.)
They're the structures on the feet of "jackup" style drilling rigs that reduce the penetration of the leg into the seabed. One of the world's major rig building and maintenance yards is in Finland ; there are several similarly equipped yards in Sweden ; and there is an occasional traffic in rigs being moved through the Baltic to get into the Caspian Sea. I wouldn't be surprised to find that a jackup had been stacked or load-tested here after repairs (or new construction).
That's my wild-arsed guess. But what the fuck would I know? I rarely spend more than a couple of hours a month looking at seabed sonar scans.
Can I find comparable images on the net? Nope, not in 5 minutes of searching.
Well, anyway, the probability of me buying a copy of the Daily Fail when I don't have active (and extremely urgent) diarrhoea has not increased. And the urgency of this story is almost exactly zero.
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We dont know what it is......therefore we know its a spaceship from a galaxy far far away.
I am a scientist (B.A. in Comp Sci at a small liberal arts school)
That's a pretty liberal application of the term 'scientist'.
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This is, after all, the Daily Mail.
CSI could even use some fancy "new" voxel technology to make it even more impressive!
Dude no - not just an UO - an USO (Unidentified Sunken Object) - ahem ... ehehe
And when they board it and find the wrecked instruments, they can unsolder the chip with large GPS lettering on it, put it into their own TomTom unit and then check what galaxy the aliens came from !
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Maybe a sub base?
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Almost anyone can call themselves a "scientist". There's even a religious denomination that applies the title to Jesus Christ, even though I'm pretty sure he didn't conduct any double-blind experiments in his career.
Though in all sincerity, I do consider myself a "scientist" in the sense of using the scientific method to learn about the world I live in.
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