Exploration Team Discovers Mysterious Disc on Ocean Floor
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Pay me a few thousand for the training and the nitrox kit (hmm... that's a little over 90m... tri-mix, even?) and I'll do it myself...FelixG said:
However if we've got the units screwed up, Nasa-style, and it's 300m, you'll be needing a dive bell (and probably a week in a decompression tank) or some kind of submersible. All the same, it's not going to stretch into millions, maybe just a few tens of thousands.
What I'd like to point out though, is two things:
1. These kind of shadow-relief images can trick your mind - what it looks like can be heavily dependent on orientation (and, if you then rotate it, the orientation you first saw it in). Printed the wrong way up, a crater can look like a dome, etc. If you rotate this one, at some angles it looks more like a small volcanic caldera on top of a tapered ridge, and undersea volcanoes aren't that rare.
2. What's that second mirrored-ish trace on the right hand side of the screen, cut off in some of the images? It seems to have a faint outline of the same thing on there, but lacking a lot of definition and seeming more like a pattern in sand. Is it's "WOW THERES A DISC ON THE FLOOR" appearance maybe highly dependent on the angle of the scanner and some very heavy reprocessing to raise the contrast and pick out even the tiniest details in high relief? I can get a mysterious circle with my digital camera by doing similar by getting a tiny speck of rain on the lens then pointing it at a blank surface.
"What the hell is an Aluminum Falcon?'Blueruler182 said:
Sorry, had to.
I'm curious as to why the guy who discovered it is so "meh."
Is it not that unusual?
So the thing is 20 meters wide...
Found between Sweden and Finland...
Could it be the object that caused this?
http://mysteryoftheinquity.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/2252952_f520.jpg?w=450&h=298
Found between Sweden and Finland...
Could it be the object that caused this?
http://mysteryoftheinquity.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/2252952_f520.jpg?w=450&h=298
Huh... it kinda does looks like the Millennium Falcon...
OT: Why do I feel like this is some marketing scheme...?
OT: Why do I feel like this is some marketing scheme...?
I'm disappointed they're not chasing this up. Surely there must be some crazy person out there with an abundance of funds willing to potentially waste a large sum of money hauling whatever this thing is up. Some may say it's junk, but I'm betting that's FTL travel and clean, limitless energy sitting down there... Get it done!
Meteorite?- No, meteors have never left trails. They always go so fast that they leave just a big [a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_Crater]hole[/a].
Volcanoe?- There are no volcanoes in the Baltic Sea.
Aircraft Crash?- Well that trail is similiar to a plane crash in terms of its length, but why is the last part in a circular formation and where is the debris?
Sunken Ship or Submarine?- There is no way that a ship could land in a position where it seems like a circle and there is no recorded ship that looks like that. And neither would a submarine land in that position. Plus, that doesn't explain the trial which I assure you is a impact trial of some kind.
A rock?- Still doesn't explain the trail.
A camera trick?- Possibly but that has to be one complex trick of the camera/imager.
A UFO- Silly person, UFOs don't exist. But weather balloons do!
Volcanoe?- There are no volcanoes in the Baltic Sea.
Aircraft Crash?- Well that trail is similiar to a plane crash in terms of its length, but why is the last part in a circular formation and where is the debris?
Sunken Ship or Submarine?- There is no way that a ship could land in a position where it seems like a circle and there is no recorded ship that looks like that. And neither would a submarine land in that position. Plus, that doesn't explain the trial which I assure you is a impact trial of some kind.
A rock?- Still doesn't explain the trail.
A camera trick?- Possibly but that has to be one complex trick of the camera/imager.
A UFO- Silly person, UFOs don't exist. But weather balloons do!
That's a terrible example as a ripple from a puddle is totally transient. Better to post this:Aprilgold said:
http://www.mreclipse.com/Observatory/Crater/full/Crater99-121w.JPG
But still, a meteorite crater even in a desert with minimal erosion or deposition the circular shape is not that strong.
Any way, this is under water, a meteorite would blow up as it hit the water, not glide right through till it hit the sea floor, then punch a hole with incomplete but perfectly curved circular edges.
Fair enough. I can't find any evidence of them either.Houss said:
Though, this could be the first
Or a geyser, or some other natural disturbance of the sea floor. Given that my main point was that, depending how you read the chart, it might actually be a circular depression rather than a lump, it may even be an impression in the sand from some strange and very localised vortex current?
Still, it's not that far down. If they'll release the co-ordinates it shouldn't be a massive issue for interested amateurs to go there and dive down for a closer look, or send a cheap ROV (like the one that was powered/ballasted with a load of C-cells) to grab some video.