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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."
What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
"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.
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.
People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
Needs some quote marks add.
Damn, Tom Cruise was right after all.
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
Regurgitated by a giant squid...?
Nope ... it's Bat Boy's undersea sanctuary. Perhaps he should have put it in Yucca Mountain.
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Mr. Jackson wasn't available for comment, though we did hear him shout "I have had it with these motherfucking aliens on this motherfucking planet!" as he was leaving.
The difference is that we can send down a submarine to verify what we see.. With a slice of toast that looks like the Virgin Mary, you can't prove that it wasn't put there by divine intervention, It's just a matter of faith. So while this may or may not be a crashed flying saucer, I could be verified. Couldn't you just lower a waterproof camera on a string, with a light on it to at least verify the claims? Seems like it would be a pretty cheap thing to do even if it turns out to be nothing.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
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.
Yucca Mountain would be a strange location for an undersea sanctuary.
A mysterious "circle" on a grainy scan, "this" is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that "Earth" has been "visited" by aliens.
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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Doubt it. If a group of guys with a boat and sonar equipment thought it was a flying saucer down there they'd actually have gone down. The fact that they didn't bother shows that they're not the "source" for the Daily Mail's story. Who knows, perhaps we'll find the Daily Mail doesn't even have any "scientists" claiming it's a flying saucer! But no, that could never happen, surely.
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.
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.
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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it's obviously a crater from a anti-submarine depth-charge.
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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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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.
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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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Not only the Daily Mail, but the Daily Mail in August. You might as well get your news from the Beano.