Exploration Team Discovers Mysterious Disc on Ocean Floor

[Treblaine]

When I look at this, the only thing I can think of is this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Sphere-Michael-Crichton/dp/0062044915/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1312399371&sr=1-1

"It is not in our sphere of interest to go for this object"

Hooooooooly shiiiii-

 

[Treblaine]

Reminds me of this: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.246719-Laws-of-physics-broken-as-a-perpetual-motion-machine-was-invented?page=1

Long story short: Guy invent something that breaks the laws of thermodynamics (infinite energysource) but "can't patent it because it's made of parts from bicycles (and they are patented)"

This kinda sounds the same, some guy (from my country!) finds an object which is too good to be true and can't explore it because there's a money-issue. Sounds totally legit -.-

But hey, I could be totally wrong and it could turn out to be a UFO... or something else from SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE...

Semantically a perpetual motion machine is possible, all you have to do is get something moving - like a flywheel spinning - and remove all friction. Then it will spin forever.

The lie with a perpetual motion machine is the idea that because it spins by itself for ever (or at least for an extremely long time) that that spinning can be used to do more WORK than was actually spent spinning it up.

Really it's a "1 + 1 = 3 machine"

 

[toapat]

Oh no! Han Solo crashed on earth after being sent back forward in time by the force!!

no, he screwed up the Kessel run and nicked a star, spiralled out of control, and then crash landed on earth.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

There is only one solution.
Send in the SAS to elimate all who know of it.

As this was exposed to the interent, and thus we must presume everyone on the internet has seen it, only around... 2,095,006,005 people. (on March 31st 2011).
Simple.

Looks like they'll be a little late to tea.

On-topic: There's almost no limit to what this could be (remember the "face" on Mars?) so I'll wait to see what more detailed examinations show. 285 feet isn't THAT deep- the deepest SCUBA dive on record is just shy of 1,110 feet- so I can't imagine it'll take terribly long.

 

[Aprilgold]

"Because circles don't appear in nature"
LOOK AT YOUR EYES, THEIR CIRCLES!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Circles+in+nature&view=detail&id=C0887C64F0D8EF804B07B39D46EE952FFB4769CF&first=0

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Circles+in+nature&view=detail&id=C0887C64F0D8EF804B07B39D46EE952FFB4769CF&first=0

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Circles+in+nature&view=detail&id=C0887C64F0D8EF804B07B39D46EE952FFB4769CF&first=0

Also, all of these, there, he just proves he is false.

 

[Owen Robertson]

It looks like swamp gas reflecting the light of Venus to me.

Nothing to see here people. Move along.

/puts finger to ear and starts whispering

Hey stop doin' the flashy-thingy, you'll give them brain cancer.

 

[Coller]

Oh no, someone found the plug, let's hope noone unplugs it.

 

[orangeapples]

i know i'm not hte first one to say it or think it, but.....

The resemblance is uncanny however if you look at the picture you can see the impact tracks they mentioned. It looks like the Falcon crashed backward. And anyways the disk is 20 feet too small to be the Falcon.

Myth Busted!

well, it could be that Dash Rendar had to make a quick getaway abandoning the main disk section of the Outrider... The Outrider is much smaller than the Falcon...

 

[Nouw]

And thus the apocalypse was predicted by the users of an internet forum...but no one listened!

 

[duchaked]

oh my gosh it's the Millennium Falcon!

 

[Rack]

That's it, next census I'm putting Jedi down as my religion, there's no way they can refute it now.

 

[Valagetti]

Oooh, thats were my thrown out copy for DNF is.

 

[Vykrel]

i may be ignorant, but just how much could it possibly cost to go take a look at the thing? just take a boat out there and send some people down to take a look.

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.

well that sucks lol. hopefully they either get someone to fund them, or someone else tries to find out what it is, themselves. i would really like to know what it is, even though it could be nothing. based on the images, it really does appear to be something that crashed into the ground. im guessing its a meteorite. maybe we will find out

 

[Detective Prince]

Am I the only one that heard disk and thought "Monster Rancher?" -.- I'm getting old.

 

[Puzzlenaut]

It's a weather balloon.

A sixty foot wide weather balloon that sunk to the bottom of the sea!

Its always those pesky weather balloons... >.<

 

[soren7550]

I'm thinking that it's the sunken Cetan Ship. It's too soon to find it though! We're not supposed to see it for another 12 years!
(pizza rolls for whoever gets this)

 

[FinalFreak16]

....Atlantis! We finally found it! If futurama is anything to go by there should be mermaids too!