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Satellite Spots Massive Object Hidden Under the Frozen Wastes of Antarctica (thesun.co.uk)
schwit1 quotes a report from The Sun: Scientists believe a massive object which could change our understanding of history is hidden beneath the Antarctic ice. The huge and mysterious "anomaly" is thought to be lurking beneath the frozen wastes of an area called Wilkes Land. It stretches for a distance of 151 miles across and has a maximum depth of about 848 meters. Some researchers believe it is the remains of a truly massive asteroid which was more than twice the size of the Chicxulub space rock which wiped out the dinosaurs. If this explanation is true, it could mean this killer asteroid caused the Permian-Triassic extinction event which killed 96 percent of Earth's sea creatures and up to 70 percent of the vertebrate organisms living on land.This "Wilkes Land gravity anomaly" was first uncovered in 2006, when NASA satellites spotted gravitational changes which indicated the presence of a huge object sitting in the middle of a 300 mile wide impact crater.
So, "Alien" or "The Thing"? What are your bets guys?
1) It's the collected lost socks and keys of the planet. They all fell to the bottom.
2) It's Cowboy Neal's porn stash.
...predator hunting pyramid
Seriously? You linked to the fucking Sun newspaper? For a science article?
I'm done with this site.
Im not sure 'thesun.co.uk' is the best source for science news!
the massive spaceship that brought humans to this planet or the city of the Elder Things
fifty/fifty, one or the other
Look at the bright side. It could be Superman's Fortress of Solitude
It doesn't name a scientist or link to any science. Hoax? Hoax.
Unfortunately I'm not a mining expert but isn't much (most?) of the iron available to humanity basically meteorites? I mean most of the iron that the earth formed with sank to the core since it is (much?) denser than the surrounding molten rock?
And wasn't this thing detected because it was a gravity or mass anomaly? A chunk of iron that big could be quite valuable! Here comes the despoiling of the Antarctic, a job made possible by global warming and the "who cares" approach to the environment of our soon to be in office leader.
The Sun doesn't really do "news" or "facts". Given that they're doing "science" does this mean they've run out of celebs and immigrants to pick on?
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Why don't you post a link to The Mirror as well? At least they don't dance around and call it a lost Nazi UFO base right away.
What the fuck is going on with this site?
A good 30% of TFA talks about nazi UFOs in Antarctica.
Good job editors!
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And for those that want to see the actual article...
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008GC002149/full
Not saying it's aliens, as that is a far stretch. Those damn rascally Iron Sky Nazis however....
"Secure Team 10 suggested the Nazis built secret bases in Antarctica during World War II, which were designed to be used by flying saucers.
The UFO hunters added: “There is some evidence of this coming to light in recent years, which images purporting to show various entrances built into the side of mountains, with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude."
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A 151 miles wide by 848 meters deep? Be more consistent with your units please
Seriously!?
When do UFO conspiracy groups becomes source material?
I have read all that crap material since the time of the usenet, using TIN to check newsgroups and buying OMNI magazine.
Jeezus!!... The material is repeated ad nauseam, at the time I was a teenager, but once one starts to see the inconsistencies that it is just a form of entertainment.
Much like the fantastic tales of the middle ages and renaissance, there is always market for grown-up faery tales.
If there is a large iron deposit in Antartica, great. But nothing like "Aliens" special.
Obviously, this is the weapons platform the Ancients built. They already made about 10 seasons worth of TV documentary about it.
Seriously? You linked to the fucking Sun newspaper?
Nuke it from orbit...
spot massive click bait article in the Sun!
I can't believe you guys posted this crap. This is stale - the news itself about the land crater dates back to 2006. Next, this article is from *The Sun* which is akin to National Enquirer. Nazi UFO base? Give me a break...... The WLC itself is pretty cool and interesting, but there are other articles that would've sucked a lot less. Here's an example: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/heres... CHOOSE A BETTER SOURCE.
Page 3 is where the science is...
The inevitable X-Files reference!
The next reference is "Star Gate - Antarctica"
I'm aware many slashdotters have slightly less than positive feelings for this poster but why would anyone link to an article in The Sun.... That's nearly as bad as posting something from Fox News or CNN. It's a terrible source of news and they don't deserve any additional revenue from their articles being posted elsewhere. They are the sort of paper who supports xenophobic views of those like Trump and Farage.
So is this Homeworld, Alien vs Predator, or Stargate SG-1? I'm hoping for the first. "One hundred years ago, a satellite detected an object under the sands of the great desert..."
They must have discovered the city of the Elder Things. Lovecraft already wrote about this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
They send a team out to dig it up and right when they unearth the creature a storm blows up and isolates them.
There was already a documentary on it, called "The Thing," by John Carpenter.
Very informative and worth watching.
I'll take my clothes off and it will be shameless
The word "UFO" is featured too many times for the article to be credible.
Here's the problem. A very quick google search will turn up research papers on on the Wilkes Land Anomaly, but they are mostly behind paywalls or "free registration", etc, etc.
A person can play video games, read tabloids, browse conspiracy websites, watch porn or gamble for "free" online all day long, but the minute you want serious information on any topic nowadays, the serious research is almost always behind "paywalls". For the average person who is not involved in some form of academia, how many east to find alternatives (other than wikipedia) are there out there? More importantly, hwo easy are they to find and access as compared o the others? As long as we as a society continue to operate this way, then society as a whole will continue to "dumb down" in general. "idiocracy" here we come. :(
a crashed spaceship, with an outside chance of being the lost city of R'lyeh. Either way the course is clear - we have to dig it up and find out for sure. If we unleash a horde of alien conquerors or awaken mighty Cthulhu from his slumber in the process... well, we can figure out how to cross that bridge when we get to it.
There goes my summer vacation spot. Now what am I going to do when those pesky scientists and their nosy dog start poking around?!
*Goes to a cheep Halloween costume store*
So, "Alien" or "The Thing"? What are your bets guys?
Assuming "Alien" is referring to a "xenomorph" we might want to add Borg to the list.
While I'm sure "Alien" seems like ancient history to most of you, it's clearly the ship of the Great Old Ones.
Read a book for chrissakes.
Read HP Lovecraft's, "At the Mountains of Madness". It seems he may have been right after all.
We are only 17 years after what was predicted : that's not so bad.
Irrelevant news and morons using moderation to mod down what they disagree on. 2018 resolution: so long.
They found Scout Ship 0344 containing the Genesis Chamber. Last I heard Luthor was in NY. Keep them apart or it will be Doomsday....
very strong gravitational anomaly... Antarctic... This one is easy.
It's a Stargate.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Absolutely - their PREVIOUS stories on this were "Atlantis under the Ice" - its the very definition of Fake News!!
Their website says, in plain ink - "We pay for your stories!" STORIES, its NOT NEWS!
This is a lesson everybody need to learn. Good information cost money. It cost time to gather, it cost expertise to learn to gather it, it cost time against to get that expertise. And time is money. So you get the news with the same quality you pay for. Pay nothing ? Get the copy/pasta PR release, editorialized to get the max impact advertising money.
This is gonna be... a very interesting and exciting rock structure.
This one deserves an obligatory Far Side comic.
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It's Megatron!
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Are you actually reporting about crazy secret UFO bases under the arctic ice sheet, as proposed by The Sun, of all tabloids?
If that asteroid is as big as that and accessible it may be the most valuable mining site in the world.
How many will get that reference ;)
I've seen AVP enough times to know what happens next...
Well Slashdot is quoting a science article from the Sun 'newspaper' so I think we are pretty much well beyond the Mountains of Madness now and heading out over the Seas of Stupidity.
Sensationalist pricks! A ~200x100x1 km structure is not an "object" but a natural rock formation. Guess someone watched The Thing too many times. But we all have to eat, right?
I must admit all my orbital experience comes from reddit and Kerbal Space Program. BUT isn't it highly unlikely that an asteroid would hit a polar region? Rotation of earth, aswell as our trajectory around the sun and our solar systems trajectory around the galaxy all make it much easier for asteroids, especially big ones, to come at earth from the side. The closer to the equator the more likely to hit. Based on all the the observed craters by the lunar and planetary institute (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/science/kring/epo_web/impact_cratering/World_Craters_web/worldcraters_maps.jpg) it looks like the northern hemisphere is even more favoured to be hit. So with the low odds of it being an asteroid, what are they basing their assumption on?
I can't believe I'm the first one to post a reference to Mutineers' Moon. Clearly this is Anu's stronghold, and we need to invade it before he finds a way to take over the ship that replaced our moon.
David Weber for the win!
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Their source for the photos is Secure Team. Enough said. He's the biggest joke on Youtube and is a known liar.
Wasn't this found to be a mascon in 2006? https://www.eurekalert.org/pub...
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It's merely a mounting socket, with the topmost elephant still in it.
What's worrisome is that they didn't detect the whole stack of elephants going down. I fear the top one has slipped off the stack, leaving our planet's stability to the vagaries of gravity and orbits and stuff.
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Wasn't there a conspiracy theory about the Nazi's build a huge underground base there? And Exploration vessels being dive bombed by Fu fighters from the sea?
The anomaly was actually discovered in 1959-1960:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antarctic-science/article/the-wilkes-land-anomaly-revisited/44DCA3FC303E6FF82CD3259AD41A2437
by this guy
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/canyoncourier/obituary.aspx?pid=173344814
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkes_Land_crater
The mass concentration (ie. asteroid remnants) was first discussed in 2006.
My bet - it will an alien thing.
It is pretty surprising that so many of these have hit the continents rather than the ocean basin considering most of the planet is ocean. One hitting the ocean basin would not leave much trace due to plate subduction. However, if a large asteroid hit the deep ocean basin, what would the effect be, would the ocean water perhaps prevent the dust and so on from entering the air, instead you would end up with a tsunami , avoiding the climate change? Or would the force oft he comet be such that the dust would manage to enter the atmosphere anyway?
Nazis and aliens, at your service!
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
What kind of nerds ARE you?
No Captain America OR Lovecraft reference?
The best you could muster is Carpenter?
The http://sci-hub.cc/ is working, it's a free service ran by volunteers... Anything that has a PMID/DOI: id thingy is downloadable through it.
There's also Library Genesis, http://gen.lib.rus.ec that has tons of books for free that other sites sell.
Anything else published can be found as a torrent, or stashed somewhere on some web/ftp site or the Archive.
Should these glorious services be removed from Internet's surface by a thermonuclear strike in 15 minutes, you can always install some silly trojan or shell on a computer/server of your local uni or uni library and use that instead.
While i agree, that an average person has no possibility of finding these, i disagree on it being a bad thing. Without skills in information retrieval, internet search and analysis, the average person will not be able to cross-reference the available research and form a critical opinion, no matter how easily available data is? Cos' they aren't taught these skills...
First thing I thought of, of course. Bal-Sagoth - In Search of the Lost Cities of Antarctica
Who knows what the hell is going on on the internet nowadays no one knows what's going on...
Supports asteroid buried in Antarctica
dr. kammler had lots of time to dig his refugee camp in the wild! ...
From 1945 to this day
...the Sun, has sourced....UFO hunting crew Secure Team 10.....for their data.....read on:
"Secure Team 10 suggested the Nazis built secret bases in Antarctica during World War II, which were designed to be used by flying saucers.
The UFO hunters added: “There is some evidence of this coming to light in recent years, which images purporting to show various entrances built into the side of mountains, with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude.
“This begs the question: how would you enter these entrances without something that could fly and was the same shape as hole itself?”
Secure Team also suggested the US Navy led a mission to investigate the mysterious continent."
Since the Sun loves capitals and /. now references them for stories I too will use them here:
SLASHDOT HAVE YOU GONE INSANE? I AM DONE HERE. BUY SOME INSIGHT INTO WHO WE ARE FFS
Seriously how has this been picked up by anybody. The Sun is one of the earliest 'B29 bomber found on mars' made up garbage papers. This really puts the judgement of Slashdot into question.
I have, in all candor, known about this for years. Really. I just knew there was something down there.
Phew. Elon Musk has taken my suggestion and is playing out Watchmen to avert the Trumpocalypse.
The far right speaks against NASA doing work with moving asteroids , or creating another Earth 2 on Mars.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
I guess the source of this article is suspect, but I would also like to point out that that the first "stories" of mass extinction due to a crashed asteroid were indeed from the National Enquirer way back 1975? maybe earlier. And they were all pooh-poohed by scientists, but now it seems this is all "scientifically proven" now, so personally, I pay attention just in case.
There's many stories that have broken in the Enquirer or even TMZ that were completely outlandish and impossible, but subsequently were proven as true, Gary Hart comes to mind, Reagan running his presidency through his wife's astrologer, etc.
By the way, your capchas are fucked in the ass.
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it's due to the magnetic north and south centripetal vortex pulling atoms together into their tightest formation. the circular shape is actually hexagonal. check out electric field lines on facebook to get more info. it's the nature of magnetism. not gravity.