Exploration Team Discovers Mysterious Disc on Ocean Floor
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At this point I'm split into two halves. One halve, the side that convinces me never to buy a lottery ticket, is saying its a bit of old ship or a odd shaped rock and it's a waste off time even considering it. Then there's the other halve that makes my heart jump every time I hear news like this, a tiny flicker of hope that see's a future where humans are not condemned to die slowly on the planet that created us but take our place among the infinitely wonderful. Unfortunately I know where the smart money lay.
thegrimfandango said:It would cost a LOT of money, to hire a research vessel kitted out with everything you need, pay a crew, pay scientists who will actually be able to look at the data and analyse it, pay for qualified divers and all the equipment & safety procedures they need - and if it's deep sea below where divers can reach then we're talking about throwing something like an ROV (remotely operated vehicle) into the mix, and those things do not come cheap and tend to have delicate equipment. And that's not even getting into the physical/technical problems with trying to sample, film and gather definitive data on something in the pitch black under immense pressure. Trust me, it's nowhere near as simple as just getting a boat and sending some people down, and you'd want to be a wealthy individual to privately fund it. Maybe if they got a research grant, but there'd have to be a body with the funds and interest to pay for the expedition, and it's really hard to get funded in a scientific endeavour these days without obvious moneymaking petential.
Sorry about the wall-o-text, but Marine Science is my arena of study, and it's really not simple to get good data on anything going on under the water.
Its only 285 feet down, it is easily divable seeing the North Sea oil rig divers go down to 700ft in more open waters than the Baltic.
Ok its at least 1500 miles to the nearest active volcano from the Baltic and the area has not been tectonically active for millions of years. Plus the small but important point its to small to be ridge seeing its in only 285 feet of water. The force of gravity still operates under water. If you drop 5 tons of iron over the side of ship it is still going to fall, in this case, 285 feet, which means its going hit big. When the Titanic hit the ocean bed it dug itself 50 feet below the ocean bed after falling 2 miles in six minutes. All that said and done its mostly likely to be a bit of heavy deck cargo that has been washed over board.Vigormortis said:
how can this guy not want to investigate? he is clearly an alien in disguise trying to cover up his crashed ship, because basic human curiosity cannot find a geometric anomaly in a crater at the bottom of the ocean and go, "eh...not interested". i can understand not having/ wanting to spend the time and money needed for what might be nothing, but you have to at least WANT to see what it is...
anyway, despite obviously looking like the result of han solo drunk-driving, im gonna say its the remains of a giant prehistoric crab; seems more plausible. hopefully a different team of treasure hunters (perhaps one not lead by an inhuman pod person) will give it a looksie.
anyway, despite obviously looking like the result of han solo drunk-driving, im gonna say its the remains of a giant prehistoric crab; seems more plausible. hopefully a different team of treasure hunters (perhaps one not lead by an inhuman pod person) will give it a looksie.
Wow, it really does look like the Millenium Falcon. Its probably nothing more excciting than a meteor, which as a geologist I really should be more excited about than I am, but it'd still be cool to send down a submersible and find out what it really is.
Clearly, this is a copy from a New Republic Starfleet Academy information about why you should never let your Wookie co-pilot maneuver the ship alone in close vicinity to big galactic bodies.
Look at it, you can almost still read the words "Friends don't let friends co-pilot alone" scribbled over it!
Look at it, you can almost still read the words "Friends don't let friends co-pilot alone" scribbled over it!
It's obviously a Frisbee, the dinosaurs DID invent them after all, we just shrunk them for our use
Then factor Captain Solo's "natural piloting skills" into that and it all comes together!TestECull said:
I cannot understand why no one has taken a closer look at something submerged only 285 ft!
Maybe it crashed while refueling? I mean we're looking to Hydrogen for power now and have been for awhile so it's not unthinkable to reason that something beat us to the punch by a few hundred or thousand years right?
Why would they need to use divers? There is absolutly no need to use divers and spend millions of dollars to send people down to it to find out what it is when a few thousand dollars and a remote controled mini sub would be just as good. Funny the remote sub would be sent first even if they were planning on sending divers anyway and he probably already had one on his ship anyway.
Soooooo that being said why didnt they send a remote sub to check it out? Wait maybe they did and it was really a space craft so they reported it and they were shut down. but since they already told someone they spotted something unusual they are being forced by penalty of death to claim its nothing of interest really and would be too expensive to go down and look at it.
Soooooo that being said why didnt they send a remote sub to check it out? Wait maybe they did and it was really a space craft so they reported it and they were shut down. but since they already told someone they spotted something unusual they are being forced by penalty of death to claim its nothing of interest really and would be too expensive to go down and look at it.
Wookieepedia is my friend. Also about ten years of my early life was devoted to everything Star wars.uppitycracker said:my god, and i thought i was a geekCpu46 said:
My nerdy star wars knowledge wants to point out that there really was no Prototype Falcon. It is a modified YT-1300 light freighter.
Oh, and the Ebon Hawk from KOTOR is closer to the dimensions of the disk, but still about 10 feet wider.