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Could it be?

Mystery object found on Baltic Sea floor

A renowned shipwreck surveyor has come across a large unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, leading to speculation it could be anything from an underwater Stonehenge to a crashed UFO.

Swedish firm, Ocean Explorer, located the mystery object in an undisclosed part of the Baltic Sea near Sweden, using sonar technology, Daily Mail reports.

However, due to insufficient funding the Swedes cannot launch an operation to find out what the object is.

Sonar images reveal the object is a 60m cylinder, about the same size as a jumbo jet, with about 400m of drag marks.

A similar disc shaped object was observed 200m away…

For the complete story and to watch a video on the discovery, click here.

By the way!

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Our friends at the Long Now Foundation never cease to amaze. You will see what I mean in this segment from Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman…

Long Now on Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman

Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman is a show on Discovery’s Science Channel that features cosmological and metaphysical questions about science and the universe.

Mr. Freeman, as it turns out, is quite the geek.

An episode from the show’s second season recently asked, “Can We Live Forever?” Well known scientists such as Michio Kaku and Aubrey de Grey provided perspective on the challenges and research underlying the the science of human life extension. (Coincidentally, a newly announced DARPA research initiative on the subject, called Biochronicity, was mentioned on Long Views just last month.)…

Click here to watch the segment and to read more from the Long Now blog. Curious about what the Long Now Foundation is? Click here.

Okay, suspend your disbelief for a second and imagine that for political reasons the United States may have needed to cloak the true nature of its lunar program by creating fake landings and moon walks. Now imagine that they would have needed to find the most precocious filmmaker alive in order to do the job.

There’s a lot of talk lately about whether or not it’s possible that Stanley Kubrick was hired to direct the fake moon landings. Here’s an article from Reality Sandwich that goes into great detail on the matter. I am still a bit skeptical, but this article has really got me thinking.

Judge this mystery for yourself and please let us know what you think…

How Stanley Kubrick Faked the Apollo Moon Landings

by Jay Weidner

“There are great ideas, undiscovered breakthroughs available, to those who can remove one of truth’s protective layers.”

–Neil Armstrong, “First Man on the Moon”

It has now been forty years since the fabled moon landings by NASA and the Apollo gang. When it comes to the subject of the moon landings, people tend to fall into two belief groups. The first group, by far the bigger of the two groups, accepts the fact that NASA successfully landed on the moon six times and that 12 human beings have actually walked on the surface of the moon. The second group, though far smaller, is more vocal about their beliefs. This group says that we never went to the moon and that the entire thing was faked.

This essay presents a third position on this issue. This third point of view falls somewhere between these two assertions. This third position postulates that humans did go to the moon but what we saw on TV and in photographs was completely faked.

Furthermore, this third position reveals that the great filmmaker Stanley Kubrick is the genius who directed the hoaxed landings…

For the complete piece click here.

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