Mysterious Object Found In Seabed 336
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."
A chunk of Skylab (Score:2)
Regurgitated by a giant squid...?
Re:A chunk of Skylab (Score:4, Funny)
Regurgitated by a giant squid...?
Nope ... it's Bat Boy's [wikipedia.org] undersea sanctuary. Perhaps he should have put it in Yucca Mountain.
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Yucca Mountain would be a strange location for an undersea sanctuary.
Right? (Score:3)
Your right
What about my left?
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Nothing to see here folks...move along.
my theory about brontosaurs (Score:3)
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That seemed like a good idea. From the great and wise Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depth_charge):
"The killing radius of a depth charge depends on the payload of the depth charge and the size and strength of the submarine hull. A depth charge of approximately 100 kg of TNT (4 MJ) would normally have a killing radius (hull breach) of only 3-4 meters (10-13 ft) against a conventional 1,000-long-ton (1,000 t) submarine, while the disablement radius (where the submarine is not sunk but put out of com
Aluminum Falcon (Score:5, Funny)
What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
Re:Aluminum Falcon (Score:4, Funny)
What the @#$! is an Aluminum Falcon?
Best Line Ever.
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He should know better (Score:3, Funny)
"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.
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Kessel Run (Score:2)
That ninth parsec is a bitch to navigate!
UFO? (Score:4, Insightful)
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What they meant to write was UFO, an unidentified flightless object.
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What they meant to write was UFO, an unidentified flightless object.
Or a UFFO - unidentified formerly floating object.
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Underwater Found Object
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"Flying" could mean "able to fly", not "flying at the moment". And all objects can fly if there's a big enough explosion....
Re:UFO? (Score:5, Funny)
And all objects can fly if there's a big enough explosion....
Except your mom.
Re:UFO? (Score:5, Interesting)
Did many Bothnians die... (Score:5, Funny)
To bring us this information?
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What's a Bothnian? Is that like an Bothan from Glendale, CA?
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Re:Did many Bothnians die... (Score:5, Funny)
Bothnia is the country right next the Stherbia, sthupid.
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What's a Bothnian?
Thomeone from thomewhere in Bothnia, thuch ath Tharajevo.
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I see your *whooosh* and I reverse it upon you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale,_California#Armenian_population [wikipedia.org]
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It's a trap!
If it's (Score:4, Insightful)
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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!
The second part of that phrase was also great: ". . . but if it is just a shape, it will be worthless." That about covers it.
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After further study, scientists discovered that the object consisted almost entirely of old discarded IKEA furniture.
Many... (Score:2, Funny)
...Bothnians died to get us this information.
This just in... (Score:3)
People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
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People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
Sarah Palin's people have come to reclaim her!?
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People like rushing to snap judgements; the more outrageous the better.
Sarah Palin's people have come to reclaim her!?
What?! I thought Thrawn disowned her when she torpedoed the Tiger's Claw!
Smiley face (Score:2)
Xenu (Score:3)
U.F.O. (Score:2)
I agree it's an Underwater Found Object.
I was saved (Score:2)
I was saved by Kitten Block, and you can be too:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/kitten-block/ [mozilla.org]
Closely related to the face on Mars, no doubt. (Score:2)
n/t
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Its kinda like a big round hole... Its goatse on Mars!
Sea Statue (Score:2)
Slaver in a stasis field. Don't open it. It's a trap.
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Nah, just a Blue Hades colony.
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I'm not going back, Jim!
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Nice references.
Sweds searching for booze. (Score:2)
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.
DailyFail (Score:2)
Why does /. still listed to this drivel?
Don't Mess with It (Score:5, Funny)
ITS THE DRAIN PLUG!
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Michael Crichton, Prophet (Score:2)
Fine, I'll go back to work.
I always thought... (Score:2)
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...?
Google "Apophenia" to learn about these aliens (Score:4, Funny)
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 [wikipedia.org] alien civilization. This will tell you all about who put this clearly recognizable spaceship on the sea floor.
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Let's face it, he's right.
Lost cargo? (Score:3)
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.
And of course by "scientists", they mean (Score:2)
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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.
Scientists... (Score:2)
"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.
Only 300 ft deep? (Score:2)
Can't we send a diver down there with a specialized mixed-gas diving setup?
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Use a submersible, man. More plentiful and can stay down longer.
Human exploration is dangerous, let a machine do it.
Not The Falcon (Score:3, Insightful)
Obligatory (Score:2)
Sensationalist Science (Score:4, Insightful)
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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After digging through the article, found out it's about 60 feet in diameter. That's a lot bigger than a tree.
But I agree entirely with your sentiment. It would be nice to see an article about this that wasn't 100% about UFOs and Atlantis.
Not too troubling (Score:2)
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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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.
What makes you think it crashed, and they didn't just park it there, planning on returning to it later after they've finished eating our brains?
Isn't this how... (Score:2)
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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.
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Needs some quote marks add.
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A mysterious "circle" on a grainy scan, "this" is what scientists are claiming is finally evidence that "Earth" has been "visited" by aliens.
Re:lol Daily Mail (Score:4, Informative)
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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Without a direct quote and the name of the scientist, these lines are best taken with a grain of sea salt.
Re:lol Daily Mail (Score:5, 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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"..geologists have said it was naturally formed."
Not geologist, apparently.
Re:lol Daily Mail (Score:4, Insightful)
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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Re:lol Daily Mail (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:lol Daily Mail (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 [oceanexplorer.se]
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.
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here is a hint:
If it mentions finding an UFO, don't bother.
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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.
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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.
The first submission about this story supplied this link [gizmodo.com]
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Daily Mail, Gizmodo, pretty much the same thing.
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If you feel so strongly about it, why not add it to your adblocker/routing/blocking table?
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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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That's not Millenium Falcon. The galaxy is too far away. But it's clearly a Dralthi [wcpedia.com], Kilrathi medium fighter.
Lol, I was going to just say, "Kill....Rathi..." and see who got it; too late for that.
(At least, I think that's what the dying Kilrathi pilot said in Ultima 7)
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Re:SPHERE?!? (Score:4, Funny)
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.
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Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking UFO's on this motherfucking planet!
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How could the Daily Mail sell advertisements if they actually had information? No speculation = no revenue.
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Good news is no news. No controversy = no revenue.
It's a UFO (Score:2)
Underwater Flooded Object
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Are you saying we're programmed to see the Millenium Falcon?