Something found at the botton of the Baltic Sea. Nobody has fucking clue what it is.

[Jonny49]

Treasure hunters in Sweden have discovered something at the bottom of the Blatic Sea, 87 metres below the surface.

What it is is a mystery as of a yet and it'll probably stay that way as the treasure hunters have little funding to actually go down there and check it out. All that people know now is that it's round and has an impact trail following it.

So, what do you think it is? A simple aircraft? A UFO? Cthulhu's frisbee?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/is-this-a-ufo-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/

87 meters? I'm pretty sure you can get that deep with diving equipment, assuming ur careful when you come back up to avoid the bends. It shouldn't be that expensive at all

I don't really know anything about diving, but wouldn't the pressure be pretty intense at 87 meters? Not crush your brain into mush intense, but still somewhat dangerous?

I imagine they want excavation equipment aswell, deep sea cameras and such.

 

[iblis666]

damn it one of the entrances to my under water under ground pirate base has been found time to blow it up and make it look like a odd but completely normal rock formation

 

[Griffolion]

Interesting indeed. Part of me wishes it to be something alien or extraterrestrial. But I guess that's the X-Files within.

 

[Varrdy]

come ooon, prothean technology!
...what? A man can dream of being able to travel faster than light.

Now that would be feckin' awesome and not just because I am playing the original Mass Effect again, honest!*

Personally though I agree with several people here and think it could be a meteorite. OK it's velocity would have been severely impeded when it hit the water but it still would have hit the sea bed at a fair old lick, hence the impact trail.

However if it DOES turn out to be Prothean technology I call dibs on the first person to make contact with the Asari!

Wardy
* Although it is the main contributing factor

 

[magicmonkeybars]

Not to be a wet blanket but it looks like it's a perfectly normal natural formation, maybe an impact crater but that's about as interesting as it'll get.

 

[repeating integers]

Do we know the coordinates?

I wonder if it was near the bloop....

i thought the bloop was down off antartica

It was, but given that the bloop's origin was theorized by the man who recorded the bloop, Dr. Christopher Fox, to be some sort of animal, it's not unthinkable that the source of the bloop has moved.

Ah yes, I remember the Bloop. Scariest natural story ever. Something out there 3 times the size of the Blue Whale and nobody has any clue what or where it is.

...I kinda hope it is the Bloop, actually. It'd be kinda cool.

 

[Jedamethis]

I'm hoping it's a giant rock and I don't know why.

 

[crazyfills]

Ok on the diving frount it is very possible to go that depth, however that thing down theire be it a rock a sunken air/space craft or whatever else looks big and heavey really bloody big and heavey. So we would need a team of them or a sub but its possible get theire for intsance 100 meters Technical diving training limit for divers breathing trimix. Recommended technical diving limit.People have even been known to do this sort of distance on air

1947 Frédéric Dumas, a colleague of Jacques Cousteau, dived to 307 feet (94 m) 1959 Ennie Falco reported having reached a depth of 435 feet (133 m) on air, but had no means to record it
1965 Tom Mount and Frank Martz dive to a depth of 360 feet (110 m) on air
1967 Hal Watts and AJ Muns dive to a depth of 390 feet (120 m) on air
1968 Neil Watson and John Gruener dived to 437 feet (133 m) on air in the Bahamas. Watson reported that he had no recollection at all of what transpired at the bottom of the descent due to narcosis.
1990 Bret Gilliam dived to a depth of 452 feet (138 m) on air. Unusually, Gilliam remained largely functional at depth and was able to complete basic maths problems and answer simple questions written on a slate by his crew beforehand.
1993 Bret Gilliam extended his own world record to 475 feet (145 m), again reporting no ill effects from narcosis or oxygen toxicity.
1994 Dan Manion set the current record for a deep dive on air at 509 feet (155 m). Manion reported he was almost completely incapacitated by narcosis and has no recollection of time at depth.
In deference to the high death rate, the Guinness World Records ceased to publish records on deep air dives.

 

[spartan231490]

Treasure hunters in Sweden have discovered something at the bottom of the Blatic Sea, 87 metres below the surface.

What it is is a mystery as of a yet and it'll probably stay that way as the treasure hunters have little funding to actually go down there and check it out. All that people know now is that it's round and has an impact trail following it.

So, what do you think it is? A simple aircraft? A UFO? Cthulhu's frisbee?

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/is-this-a-ufo-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean/

87 meters? I'm pretty sure you can get that deep with diving equipment, assuming ur careful when you come back up to avoid the bends. It shouldn't be that expensive at all

I don't really know anything about diving, but wouldn't the pressure be pretty intense at 87 meters? Not crush your brain into mush intense, but still somewhat dangerous?

I imagine they want excavation equipment aswell, deep sea cameras and such.

The free-diving record is over 100 meters. That's diving without any equipment, the pressure can't be too bad.

 

[Dark Prophet]

Finally, a way home...

 

[Scarim Coral]

The shape of it remind me of a Cylon spacecraft from Battlestar but for what it could possibly is I have no idea.

 

[THE_NAMSU]

Everybody has pressed the button!!!!
OT: Bin Laden's body ?

 

[Mrsoupcup]

come ooon, prothean technology!
...what? A man can dream of being able to travel faster than light.

Meh a Slip Space Drive would be 10x more useful.

Mass Effect FTL uses slipstream, so I fail to see why the drive would be 10x more useful.

Slip Space Drives let you jump any were in galaxy instantaneously without relays.

Oh, I see, I read the star trek version of slip drives and it sounded identical to the way ME ships FTL travel without Mass Relays, my bad.

It's from Halo, the Drive opens a Slipspace Rupture. Basically a Worm Hole, it has to do with String theory.

Spoiler: This Cutscene shows what happens when you Slip Space jump inside a city.

 

[skim172]

Turning off the sensationalist part of my brain:

Looks like a big rock. Some of the rock is covered with sand from that long stretch of lighter-colored sand that people think is a skid mark. The result happens to look roundish - lots of things can naturally end up round.

The most impressive thing it might be is some sort of volcanic formation - Scandinavia does have volcanic activity. Doesn't look much like an impact crater, but hard to tell off of grainy photos of an item 87 meters down made by an instrument not specifically designed to capture detailed high-resolution images of underwater geology.

Since no scientist has gone too nuts over this, presumably the experts who actually know about this stuff aren't really all that impressed either. Sunken ship salvagers may not be qualified to make statements on sea bed geology and that's rendered a non-debate since the guy doesn't think it's a UFO anyway.


Turning the sensationalism back on:

F**K DOOD ALIENS ON OUR GODDAMN SEA FLOOR MY GAWD THEY'LL TAKE SWEDEN FIRST, AND WHEN THEY CONTROL STOCKHOLM THEY CONTROL THE WORLD AWWWWWW SHEEEEET

 

[joemegson94]

Pfft, that's obviously Obama's Underwater Death Fortress from which he plans to bring about the death of the USA through universal health care.

Just thought I'd get the insane conspiracy theory train rolling.

 

[Tdc2182]

How lazy are these scientist?

"We don't want to spend money and resources figuring out what it is."

It's one dive. And isn't their job as ocean explorers to... you know... explore?

 

[thirion1850]

Whatever it is, if it doesn't lead to high speed interstellar travel or public base stations on Mars, it's probably not interesting enough to worry about. :|

 

[Break]

Slip Space Drives let you jump any were in galaxy instantaneously without relays.

The problem with that, is that you don't actually travel to the same galaxy. you switch places with a version of yourself in an alternate dimension at the desired location. The device isn't perfect, so the dimension only matches up 99.999999(etc.)% of the way. The result being, eventually, you won't recognize something in the place you've warped. Hence the discontinuation, and replacement with new "starslip" drives that are functionally identical to the ones Richardplex has suggested.

Without a scale listed, I can't really make an educated guess as to what it could be, but given it's circular nature, my guess would be an abandoned diving bell. 87 meters isn't THAT far down, and seems reasonable in my opinion. It could also be a rather large whale skull.

Is this actual science or something from a game? If it is real, could you link me an article please?

It reminds me of Kris Straub's Starslip [http://starslip.com/2005/05/23/starslip-number-1/], a comedy sci-fi webcomic, but I couldn't tell you if that's actually the reference, or even if it's based on something more real.