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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. Aluminum Falcon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?

  2. UFO? by rickyb · · Score: 4, Insightful

    An "object in the seabed between Sweden and Finland" could hardly be classified as a flying object, unidentified or otherwise.

    1. Re:UFO? by Abstrackt · · Score: 5, Funny

      And all objects can fly if there's a big enough explosion....

      Except your mom.

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    2. Re:UFO? by Nidi62 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      There is actually a term called USO (unidentified submerged object). There is a lot of reported sightings from navies and pilots of UFOs over water that would suddenly dive/resurface from the water at very fast speeds. The Hitler/Nostradamus/Monsters/Aliens channel (formerly known as the History Channel) has had several specials on it. They've even mentioned "theories" that there could be underwater bases for these USOs/UFOs.

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  3. Did many Bothnians die... by SuperJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    To bring us this information?

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    1. 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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    2. Re:Did many Bothnians die... by schwit1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Bothnia is the country right next the Stherbia, sthupid.

  4. Don't Mess with It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ITS THE DRAIN PLUG!

  5. Re:lol Daily Mail by bigsexyjoe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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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  6. 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.

  7. 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.

  8. 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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