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- Railer, on 10/12/2007, -7/+88Look guys you have to understand this is all 70's *****. Back in the 70's a series of books and movies came out about alien visitors and big foot that took the nation by storm, but it was all *****. This is just a left over turd.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropa
The original ***** started with this moron "Chariots of the Gods? - Erich von Däniken. (Total *****) the book was actually made into a movie, I have a copy of it, one of the first movies to use synthesized back ground music, very cool, but all *****.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariots_of_the_Gods%3F
Finally the true hero of the story. James Randi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Randi
He wrote a book called "Flim Flam" if you have never read this book, buy it, steal it, boot it off the net, it will change your life. Anyhow he totally debunks all this crap. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -34/+92I, for one, welcome our new dwarf alien overlords.
- rbvmusic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30A call fake
I mean the article itself is like millions of other alien bs out there.
If they put "The message was said to be so Earth shattering that the Prehistory Department of the
Beijing Academy prohibited its translation to be published" I smell bs. If they were an academy they'd publish it, because to hold something back would go against what a college is.
And why the hell does a "hum" from the disc from a turntable indicate that it has "electrical circuitry"? Are you telling me that each and every one of my records contain "electrical circuitry"? Seriously. - chrono13, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32Too many diggers use positive diggs as a bookmark of something they might want to read later.
This promotes sensationalist titles, inaccurate and duplicate stories to the front page again and again.
But what should we call this new form of bookmarking?
It isn't digging. It isn't bookmarking. Perhaps diggmarking, dickmarking?
Anyway, you could just bookmark the site rather than push something just because the title sounds interesting and you think you might have time later to find out if it is worth the digg you already gave it. - WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Very fake story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropa#Criticism - PAJK, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17But...the Bible says the world is 5,000 years old. Someone's got some explaining to do.
- dwhitbeck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12These are merely recordings once owned by Fred Flintstone.
- NealV, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Any time you see
It was an earth shattering discovery but [academic instition/big corporation/government] blocked it from being announced/revealed/finished.
You KNOW it's *****. - Railer, on 10/12/2007, -8/+17@Tawakol - None of these things are ever found in the 70's that's just when the books were written. Here are some quick sniff tests for *****:
1. Is the artifact ancient, but no one know where they are now, see Mormon Tablets
2. It's found in a far off land where western science is not allowed to tread. see Noah’s Ark
3. Anytime it's tested and shown to be fake, they did the science wrong. see Shroud of Turin
The funny part is there are 2 pictures of the disks and they don't even match.
@TwoSlick - Dude! You remember that big round hall way that turned in a circle and made people pass out that was cool! - Wenz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Bah. Those are just pics of my rotors. Man I need breaks.
- Terc, on 10/12/2007, -13/+21"new" alien overlords?
- ProximaC, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8So Earth-sharttering they refused to allow it to be published, but they happily shipped them off to another country for research?
I don't think so Tim. - aywwts4, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I dont know which is more sad, that this is on the front page, or that people seriously feel the need to say "I smell BS" or "I call a fake" like it was really up for debate.
- Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Ever seen Teletubbies? the mountains in the back ground? yep you got it.
- friedcalamari, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I bet you it's a rap song.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7http://digg.com/hardware/14_000_Year_Old_Hard_Drive_Disk/who
- acespades, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8This is the call of cthulhu.
Don't play it. You will condemn mankind.
Some say Britney Spears has the same effect. - TwoSlick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11That reminds me. I recall an episode or two in "The Six Million Dollar Man" that involved aliens and a bigfoot. Ahh... the memories.
- Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Bah everyone knows these disks were planted there by the Bush administration in order to distract from the REAL 9/11 conspiracy that of Bush and the Zeta aliens blowing up the twin towers to kill the reptilian aliens that lived underneath it. more info on this at www.moveon.org
- somnus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9I think they should add two new features to Digg.com:
1) "Interesting" > mark a story for later without digging it.
I admit, I digg stories I find interesting for later read if I'm breezing through Digg, or think I might find it useful later on down the road. If I'm skeptical, I'll read the first coupleof comments or the actual article.
2) "LOL" > mark a comment funny! This would eliminate people saying things like "ROFL" or "HAHAHA", etc. You might argue that digging the comment up does the same thing, but sometimes a comment is just so funny that you have to express yourself more directly. This would allow for such expression. It would have no effect on diggs, just basically a tracker for how many people found it funny. - kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6::squawk:: its a living
- inkswamp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10Thank goodness they couldn't patent things back then.
- Artifez, on 10/12/2007, -11/+15Bunk bunk bunk
The only thing more fallacious then this is Drudge's front page. - superkendall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4These are RAID -4 (indestructable humming stone RAID) and as such are rated for over 10,000 years of data retention.
What a shame we lost the drives to hold this media, much like 8" floppies in that regard I'm afraid. - Cheeseness, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@paradoxy
You're an idiot. Since when does communism have anything to do with ignoring truth? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'll take her to my leader
*Hint- My Leader is in my Pants* - Mrkamikaze, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4But do they collect 14,000 year old LP's? answer that!
- bjohnsonwsu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well, once they're identified, there won't be any more UFO's, now will there (since they have to be ... you know, unidentified).
- evilpotato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3and yet they magically never have any photos of these things they can describe in eloquent detail. strange that. bury as retarded ufo-theories dugg by gullible fools.
- arpad, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9I'll second railer.
Ever week there was some new load of horse ***** in softcover. There were hollow Earth books and Bermuda Triangle books and pyramids-built-by-space-aliens books and Atlantis Found! books. They were all total garbage but for some reason they struck a chord and sold by the ton. There were even some movies and TV specials made based on this crap.
This guy's just a refuge from the seventies who can't let go and probably doesn't care that his audience now consists of nutters just like him. I don't think they're even good for a laugh any more. - arpad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4What? Catherine Zeta Jones is a space alien? Dayyum.
- Makurosu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@Clasp - so you feel that the Dropa discs are fair game for criticism, but Joseph Smith's gold plates (which the angel unfortunately took back for some reason) are not? Good luck with that logic. A fraud is a fraud is a fraud even if you call it a religion, and all are subject to fair criticism. Claiming that it's "offensive" to analyze your religion's claims is frankly lame and isn't helping your case.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The 10 Most Puzzling Ancient Artifacts:
http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa011402a.htm - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4OK, The Dropa Stones are a huge mystery, and pretty badass... but that site is *horrible*
Try resizing the text. It's painful.
This might give a clue as to why ;)
<META NAME="generator" CONTENT="Web Studio, Version 2.0 for Windows"> - moosebumps, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Droop Dogg!
(sorry) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=duplicate+comment
- dingdingding, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Look out! Commies! Seriously.. It is amazing how the propaganda from the cold war era still has got so many people by the balls.
- monofonik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3As far as aliens go, I look up at all the stars in the night sky and think, if every one of them has a few planets floating around it just like our sun, then there's got to be some kind of people somewhere out there. They're probably just as dumb as we are though.
Erich Von Daniken's alien theories have been trashed by every reputable archaeologist in the world. - mushoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's called DIIGO.
- mojoel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Cool story. Fiction, yes. But cool.
- PrayerNeeder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Koosebane makes the most sense. These records were obviously left by the Great Gazoo.
- PrayerNeeder, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5yeah, you tell him Cheeseness.
See, unlike Republicans, and Democrats, Communists are completely forthright in all of their dealings. Just ask Mc Carthy: The reason his anti-communist witch hunt failed is because he was interviewing the lying republicans and democrats. Had they really been communists, they would have come clean, as they always do. - CrankyMcGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You really need a Mormon dig crew to get anywhere if you want to try to defend yourself on this issue. Otherwise, you're just going to get dugg down into oblivion. Personally, I wouldn't want to wade into any waters defending my religion in the same forum as 14,000 alien hard disks, but that's just me.
- regeya, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I don't believe it and don't mind telling you. I realize y'all keep it quiet that Jesus isn't the Messiah to you, and get evasive if people ask about it on Temple Square, but the appropriation of Jesus to win converts is highly offensive to some.
And, heck, the existence of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, etc. can be offensive to some. Any of the large number of beliefs can be offensive to some. Just having religious beliefs can be offensive to an all-too-vocal minority.
The existence of Mormonism was the biggest factor in shaking my faith. I always thought to myself, if people could be led to believe fully in something that is so demonstrably false, can a corn-fed Bible Belt-dweller like me be just as much of a sucker? Do we all just need something to believe in? Are we going to all die and find out in the afterlife that the Sumerians were the only ones who had it right? Will we just cease to exist?
One of the funny things about belief is that it doesn't necessarily have to be true for us to believe it, we just have to believe. Go ahead and believe in what you believe; I'll do the same. :-) - Jack9, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hoax Hoax Hoax. Like Scientology, not too old, OBVIOUS Hoax, some people just want to be fooled.
- jhshukla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2am i the only one that finds this funny: "click for enlargement"
- CrankyMcGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You might get somewhere with diggers if you can convince them that the Liahona was actually GPS psychic wetware from Immortal Alien Uplifters.
- TomP, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2A picture of the little dudes who be nice I guess...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I have been looking for those! Lost them in a worm hole I opened with my Fligamabob.
- peeter5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ok, for anybody that thinks this is true, I'll give you $10 if you can even locate the Baian Kara Ula mountains. I don't think they exist.
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