I heard of this object a few years back. I first thought it was a rock formation formed from a lava slide, but a friend of mine said that is not very common in that area.

If it is a UFO, it must have been a woman driving that thing.

/it's ok
//I am woman
///takin' it back

Sybarite: It's long and boring and involves Dustin Hoffman.

That's what she said.

Raise your hand if you think that was a Russian water tentacle!

My guess is it's a street lamp from an advanced civilization:

The history channel is crossing its fingers in hope its alien and or sasquatch related.

I_C_Weener: Sybarite: I think I've seen this movie. It's long and boring and involves Dustin Hoffman.

No, it's long and boring and involves Mary Elizabeth Mastrontonio, and Michael Biehn.

Yeah, The Abyss was too long. But it was still a pretty good movie, just for the effects alone.

Protip: If you find alcohol in the object, don't drink it.

This just in:

There's a hole in the bottom of the sea

dj_spanmaster: floor: My guess is it's a street lamp from an advanced civilization:

[www.mochatini.org image 333x500]

I can't see that. Please tell me it's an X-COM 2 image.

Just an overpriced jai alai inspired "lamp."

dj_spanmaster:

I can't see that. Please tell me it's an X-COM 2 image.

It's an X-Com 2 Image.... I am just not sure which image you're referring too.

NecoConeco: [upload.wikimedia.org image 640x426]

My first thought, too, but:

Noted as "Obstacle No. 73" on Polish navigation charts, and classified as a war grave, Gustloff rests at 55.0729°N, 17.4213°E, about 30 km (16 nmi; 19 mi) offshore, east of Łeba (17.33E) and west of Władysławowo (18.24E). It is one of the largest shipwrecks on the Baltic Sea floor. In order to protect the property on board the war grave-wreck of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff and to protect the environment the Polish Maritime Office in Gdynia has forbidden diving within a 500 m (1,600 ft) radius of the wreck.

This thing turned up. My first reaction was to tell the guys that we have a UFO here on the bottom," said Peter Lindberg, the leader of the amateur treasure hunters.
..
..
"Right now, we know about 20,000 objects, mostly shipwrecks, in the Baltic Sea. But I think there may be more than 100,000,"


Yeah, its got to be a UFO. It is the only rational answer.

And thus the lost realm of Rl'yeh was opened and the dark lord Cthulu stepped forth to claim the Earth. He then stated his reign to bring about 10,000 years of darkness. Hail the Dark Lord Cthulu, long may he reign.

Rikyfree: And thus the lost realm of Rl'yeh was opened and the dark lord Cthulu stepped forth to claim the Earth. He then stated his reign to bring about 10,000 years of darkness. Hail the Dark Lord Cthulu, long may he reign.

Depends. Are the stars right?

/Also, you misspelled Cthulhu.
//Somebody's getting eaten first, and it's not you :P

Gaumond: Sphere was one of my favorite books, and one of the worst movies I ever saw.

This.

C'mon guys. Everyone knows R'lyeh is in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. Not the Baltic. So it's not Cthulhu. Maybe it's Yog-Sohoth?

So once they open it and unleash the scary we can all have our 2012 doomsday prediction come true. I hope it is a face eating kind of alien rather than some miserable little bacteria that kills us all quietly.

Arkanaut: Rikyfree: And thus the lost realm of Rl'yeh was opened and the dark lord Cthulu stepped forth to claim the Earth. He then stated his reign to bring about 10,000 years of darkness. Hail the Dark Lord Cthulu, long may he reign.

Depends. Are the stars right?

/Also, you misspelled Cthulhu.
//Somebody's getting eaten first, and it's not you :P

Cthulhu is a Reaper.

Sybarite: I think I've seen this movie. It's long and boring and involves Dustin Hoffman.

Wait, are you talking about Sphere or The Abyss? I liked Sphere. The Abyss was okay for the story it told.

Sounds like a John Wyndham novel that I failed to make it through as a child because I was a wimp.

Badmonkey82009: So once they open it and unleash the scary we can all have our 2012 doomsday prediction come true. I hope it is a face eating kind of alien rather than some miserable little bacteria that kills us all quietly.

The last bacteria that tried to kill me was not quiet. Well, I guess the bacteria was quiet; the effect on me, not so much.

that woman gave us a treasure trove of the letter 's' in her narrative. stfu already.

I say leave it alone. Nothing good can come of this.

dittybopper: Protip: If you find alcohol in the object, don't drink it.

Damn, I always get Leviathan and Deep Star Six confused...

Walker: Is this a viral story for the movie "Battleship" Star Wars in 3D theater, and Blu-Ray releases?

FTFY.

pjfry: Gaumond: Sphere was one of my favorite books, and one of the worst movies I ever saw.

This.

Second.

Damn, a lot of hate for Sphere. I kinda liked it...

m1ke: Damn, a lot of hate for Sphere. I kinda liked it...

I think it may fall into the "book was so much better than the movie" category, and thus, expectations far outweighed the results.

Jack31081: dittybopper: Protip: If you find alcohol in the object, don't drink it.

Damn, I always get Leviathan and Deep Star Six confused...

I don't. They were both equally bad movies.

zorgon: C'mon guys. Everyone knows R'lyeh is in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. Not the Baltic. So it's not Cthulhu. Maybe it's Yog-Sohoth?

...or his cousin Sven.

Det er en gadelampe!

So I guess the "F" in "UFO" no longer stands for flying. It only means aliens.

God people are idiots.

I've alternated my meager flock To the shores of the Baltic Sea The teeth of time have stowed the rhyme
Of how things should be My cave, my house, my turning wheel My little docking pup The march of Colonel Forbin And his fleet hound called McGrupp

First thing I thought of:

People who believe in alien wrecks on earth bother me.

Why would an alien species, capable of interstellar flight, hit a farking planet?

pjfry: m1ke: Damn, a lot of hate for Sphere. I kinda liked it...

I think it may fall into the "book was so much better than the movie" category, and thus, expectations far outweighed the results.

Yup.

/The movie would have been OK if the book hadn't been so excellent.
//Deep sea phenomenon can be scary/fascinating.

LavenderWolf: People who believe in alien wrecks on earth bother me.

Why would an alien species, capable of interstellar flight, hit a farking planet?

Why would a species, capable of space flight, do this:



Don't assume that just because they are (presumably) highly advanced, that they won't have their idiots and hot-doggers.