Elder Thing city located in Antarctica

[Donnadogsoth]

COLD HARD FACTS? Satellite spots MASSIVE object hidden under the frozen wastes of Antarctica (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2489440/satellite-spots-massive-object-hidden-under-the-frozen-wastes-of-antarctica/)

Guillermo del Toro'd better hurry up and get his At the Mountains of Madness going before this is all as old as a bowler hat.

[Kantaki]

I never expected to say something like this, but... I hope it is just a meteorite.

Because if it isn't we are in trouble.
Especially if someone decides they have to investigate it.
That never ends well.

[Razade]

You're citing The Sun? Really? The Sun. A "newspaper" in which its main selling point was softcore porn on its third page? A quick google brought me...literally no one else reporting this. At all.

[Palanan]

Originally Posted by Razade
A quick google brought me...literally no one else reporting this. At all.

Yup. That's because the Wilkes Land anomaly was considered as a possible impact crater (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050180397.pdf) in 2005, with additional evidence (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008GC002149/full) published in 2009. The only reason it's presented as "news" is because some wacky new theory has appeared.


Originally Posted by Razade
A "newspaper" in which its main selling point….

--Wait, what? How do I find the third page in the online edition? :smalltongue:

[Razade]

Yup. That's because the Wilkes Land anomaly was considered as a possible impact crater (https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20050180397.pdf) in 2005, with additional evidence (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2008GC002149/full) published in 2009. The only reason it's presented as "news" is because some wacky new theory has appeared.

Yeah, I figured. Not that I cared much since again. The cited source is The Sun. The Sun which on its front page is talking about California ripping off the Continental United states because there were a couple 5. earthquakes. The journalistic standards of The Sun rank just around the level of a gnat's lifespan.


--Wait, what? How do I find the third page in the online edition? :smalltongue:

Google Page 3 Girls. Or better yet just google Topless Models. :smalltongue: The internet is full of cheaper porn, don't degrade your wank bank with low quality nonsense.

I should also point out the operative word is "was". The Sun no longer provides softcore porn on their third page as of last year.

[Aedilred]

You're citing The Sun? Really? The Sun. A "newspaper" in which its main selling point was softcore porn on its third page? A quick google brought me...literally no one else reporting this. At all.

Fear not, the Mirror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/massive-object-hidden-under-antarctic-9530858), the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/massive-anomaly-lurks-beneath-ice-in-antarctica/), and, obviously, the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4071252/Is-Nazi-UFO-site-buried-Antarctic-Bizarre-theory-claims-base-hidden-mysterious-150-mile-anomaly.html) are all reporting it too...

Make of that what you will.

[J-H]

I'm sure the Graudian will be right on it as well.

[Khedrac]

The problme with labelling something a "gravitational anomaly" is that unless one knows the scale of the anomaly, then it pales into insignificance as the earth is covered with them. (Fun fact - the British survey of India discovered that mountains go down as well as up because of the gravitational anomaly they produced; they used two methods to measure the height of the Himalayas and got two different answers that were out by more than the accuracy of their methods and tables; they worked out that their plumb lines were not hanging true due to the 'gravitational anomaly' of the mountains.)

What I liked further down the article was:
The UFO hunters added: There is some evidence of this coming to light in recent years, which images purporting to show various entrances built into the side of mountains, with a saucer shape and at a very high altitude.
This begs the question: how would you enter these entrances without something that could fly and was the same shape as hole itself?I don't think any vehicular entrances made by humans are the same shape as the vehicles in question, they are either rectangular (ease of construction) or arched/circular (structural strength). So given that level of analysis, I think we can ignore all of the conculsions presented.
That said, if their are high altitude "openings" (caves?) in the mountains, they might be quite interesting in cause.

[Razade]

Fear not, the Mirror (http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/massive-object-hidden-under-antarctic-9530858), the New York Post (http://nypost.com/2016/12/29/massive-anomaly-lurks-beneath-ice-in-antarctica/), and, obviously, the Daily Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4071252/Is-Nazi-UFO-site-buried-Antarctic-Bizarre-theory-claims-base-hidden-mysterious-150-mile-anomaly.html) are all reporting it too...

Make of that what you will.

So other tabloids are covering it? Alright. I should also point out that the New York Post is a cross-post. It's the same thing as the Sun posted. It's the same article.