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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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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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After further study, scientists discovered that the object consisted almost entirely of old discarded IKEA furniture.
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.
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.
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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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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.
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.
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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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.