Ancient City Exposed By Melting Ice Shelf

Wilkins Shelf Anomaly 1/4/08

Large Cephalopod Fetish 4 17.3.08 1/4/08

Fluorescent Cephalopod, Ross Sea Survey

Cone 3 Mural Hall 1/4/08

Mural Detail 1/4/08

Wilkins Anomaly Ground Level 1/4/08

Archaeozoan Reconstruction (Lake) 31/3/08

Associated Press

Antarctica - In a startling scientific development yesterday Professor William Dyer (Geology, MU) reports discovery of ruins of an ancient city at the edge of the crumbling Wilkins ice shelf in Antarctica.

As part of the International Polar Year program Professor Dyer and a transdiciplinary team including Miskatonic Professors Lake (Biology) and Pabodie (Engineering) are investigating fossils of giant Antarctic marine life forms, previously unknown to science, some unidentifiable as either plants or animals, initially discovered while boring for ice cores.

Professor Lake suggests these fossils represent pre-Cambrian archaeozoa. Though badly damaged by the drilling, Lake reports intact samples have been obtained. The extremely early date in the geological strata of these fossils is otherwise problematic because of their highly evolved features, including star-shaped heads with cephalopoid tentacles.

Aerial photographs taken by Dyer show a sprawling stone city of permutahedra, cones, and non-euclidean forms. Professor Pabodie says these are, "unprecedented [...] atypical of ancient architecture in any other part of the world". Entering a fissure in one of the cones the two discovered a large petroglyphic mural they believe depicts a creation myth including the Moon separating from the Earth and marine forms similar to those discovered on the floor of the Ross Sea this antarctic summer.

Contact with Dyer's party was interrupted 17 hours ago by an unusually severe ice storm. In a garbled voice transmission received from the party before communications were lost, Dyer was apparently preparing to return to the site of the city to "take a lilly", archaeological slang meaning multi-site deep ice core samples. The USGS advises that severe weather conditions make it inadvisable for other polar investigators to attempt to approach the Wilkins shelf site at this time.

© 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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{"commentId":1636646,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

An astounding find! I can't believe these are archaeozoa, though - those are not even eukaryotic, much less capable of building some kind of lost Atlantis.

I can't see any more about this online - the wretched MSM don't seem to be picking it up. Anyone know anything more?

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11 votes

#1 - Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:18 AM EDT

{"commentId":1641565,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

It is not good to exaggerate a find of such importance. Dyer obviously isn't suggesting any such thing as Atlantis or archeozoan cities.

I mean use your eyes, man. See the steps leading up the side of the structure? Whoever built this had feet, not tentacles.

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8 votes

#1.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:36 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641589,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Good point - and that mural clearly has knees. A shaman in a mask I guess, or something like the elephant-headed hindu deity Ganesha.

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8 votes

#1.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:45 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641618,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

What is the business about "taking lilies"? I don't believe that's slang for anything.

{"commentId":1641618,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

3 votes

#1.3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:52 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641942,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

I'm not certain. But the Miskatonic Alumni list has more images from Dyer here and here.

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4 votes

#1.4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642473,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

Those images are quite disturbing.

But I have an idea for you to forward to your mailing list. Could you ask them whether it is possible that what was transmitted was the "Tekeli-li" sound of Arthur Gordon Pym's apocryphal "Sagoth"?

If so I agree with the observers below - Professor Dyer must be pulling some kind of April Fool's joke. If he is then I'm surprised Pabodie and Lake are willing to lend their names to it. It would be the end of Lake, and utter madness for Pabodie. Isn't Professor Atwood also on the Miskatonic Polar Year staff? Why is there no mention of him here - nor his postgrad Danforth?

It is all very odd.

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8 votes

#1.5 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 12:57 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642532,"authorDomain":"cmyk"}

himself

April Fools! (the web site from which Peter's image links originate)

I wanted so bad for this story to be real.

{"commentId":1642532,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"cmyk"}

5 votes

#1.6 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 1:33 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642704,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

I'd love it to be real too. Regards to Ambertreeleaves, Arthur Walsh, and Johnny Monte, all of whom I deleted summarily to keep this subterfuge going just a little longer.

The story behind the fool is H.P. Lovecraft's wonderful At The Mountains Of Madness, which contains all the story elements above. The original anomaly photo was indeed Dubai with a color manipulations courtesy of iPhoto. When it became obvious that the worthies above and poor Dan LS had recognised it I deleted it and moved the caption to protect the innocent. Compliments to Dan for playing along.

The "Wilkins Shelf Anomaly" photo is actually a train station in Stockholm. Color adjusted again. The "Fetish" is a statue of Lovecraft's Cthulhu. The "Mural Hall" and ground level view of the anomaly are both from Bagan, in India, with colors adjusted. The "archaeozoan" is an Elder Thing (mistitled "Old One") from Wayne Barlowe's 1980s illustrated guide to extraterrestrials. The wonderful mural image is a colour tweaked, chopped, and mangled version of the third picture, top row of http://sadanandan.com/landscape.html, used without permission and hopefully without offering offence. Really amazing work - Mr Sadanandan deserves broader exposure.

Special thanks go to Lamont Cranston, whose real identity must remain, for now, in the shadows. And the blind, fluorescent cephalopod from the Ross Sea is a real blind, fluorescent cephalopod from the Ross Sea.

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7 votes

#1.7 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:46 AM EDT

{"commentId":2981545,"authorDomain":"crooked6p"}

crooked6p

Bummer.

This was so amazing it raised questions ... for me ... about the waning of glaciers in Europe.

Alexandria is being restored under-water. What could be hidden behind other prehistoric epochs of glacial waning?

When man moved in and then was pushed back, there must be evidence of civilization in lots of places.

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1 vote

#1.8 - Thu Sep 18, 2008 12:01 AM EDT

{"commentId":1641284,"authorDomain":"ambertreeleaves"}

AmbertreeleavesRestored

Nice April fool's joke!

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2 votes

#2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:04 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641584,"authorDomain":"artwalsh"}

Arthur WalshRestored

The "Wilkins Shelf Anomaly" is, in fact, the coast of Qatar showing the coastal development of rather expensive dwellings for human beings. Happy April 1st.

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3 votes

#3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:43 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641616,"authorDomain":"DanLS"}

Ha ha ha... April Fools.

That first picture of the "Wilkins Shelf Anomaly 1/4/08" is actually a satellite photo of Dubai's man-made coastline.

{"commentId":1641616,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"DanLS"}

7 votes

#4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:52 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641633,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

Where in Dubai is that?

{"commentId":1641633,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

4 votes

#4.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:56 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641649,"authorDomain":"DanLS"}

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=dubai&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=42.310334,69.609375&ie=UTF8&ll=25.171854,55.145531&spn=0.094769,0.135956&t=h&z=13

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3 votes

#4.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:00 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641700,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

It doesn't look anything like that. And I'm not certain where you'd find ice caves in Qatar.

Still that's funny stuff all right Dan. Now let's get back to business. I've read Professor Dyer's two monographs on the Crescent of Leng - any connection here?

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2 votes

#4.3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:13 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641783,"authorDomain":"DanLS"}

Just the first picture... and it looks exactly like that! (Maybe I screwed up the link) In the picture, you can clearly see The World and one of the Palm Islands developments.

However, I'm not sure where the pictures of everything else came from.

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2 votes

#4.4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:32 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641871,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

I'm afraid I also don't see the resemblance, Dan. Perhaps the radial spokes in your images remind you of the octopus tentacles?

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3 votes

#4.5 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:59 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642027,"authorDomain":"DanLS"}

Hmmm.... possibly. Maybe it was the "Large Cephalopod Fetish"

{"commentId":1642027,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"DanLS"}

2 votes

#4.6 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:48 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642141,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

That is remarkable, isn't it? Perhaps in prehistoric Antarctica all there was to eat was calimari? There is something about the mural that looks reminiscent of ancient Hindu artwork, but they always have faces and hands on theirs, not tentacles. Fetish in more ways than one I guess!

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4 votes

#4.7 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641646,"authorDomain":"djehuty"}

Djehuty

Nicely done, Peter :)

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8 votes

#5 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 7:59 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641745,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

There's a little more coverage on the Miskatonic Alum list here. Prof Dyer's apparently been out of contact for 2 days now.

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2 votes

#5.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:22 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641682,"authorDomain":"DrKnow"}

Dr Know

How is it that an AP article appears as a article rather than a seed?

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4 votes

#6 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:09 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641711,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

I was wondering about that. Some bug that crept in with the new CoH I guess. Nasty one - hope they fix it soon!

{"commentId":1641711,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

4 votes

#6.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641822,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}

There was some kind of frayed circuit or loose nut on the server and it got all janky. It'll probably be fixed by tomorrow.

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3 votes

#6.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:42 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641908,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

There's no excuse for this sort of thing. We, the Newsvine community, rely on the integrity of these servers. If they overheat or otherwise fail they can hardly be called "servers", can they? I can't see a complaints form or bugtracker on the NV site any more. I suppose since the MSNBC acquisition the original developers are off in Qatar catching rays and chasing the local hula girls instead of supporting the community right here.

I've got a good mind to pen an email direct to the MSNBC admin at http: // specials. msn. com /InsideMSN/Inside_letters.aspx and complain. About time I think!

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3 votes

#6.3 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:10 PM EDT

{"commentId":1641992,"authorDomain":"anthopos"}

Perry O

There was some kind of frayed circuit or loose nut on the server

I think it was a loose nut in front of the keyboard.

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1 vote

#6.4 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:37 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642016,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Please mind the CoH, Perry. Lamont, Spooky, I'm sure he only meant that in fun.

{"commentId":1642016,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

2 votes

#6.5 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:45 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642654,"authorDomain":"dungbeetlemania"}

dungbeetlemania

How is it that an AP article appears as a article rather than a seed?

AP articles are published directly on NV - I believe NV pays AP for the articles. They then disappear after 2 or 3 weeks.

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2 votes

#6.6 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:55 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643378,"authorDomain":"anthopos"}

Perry O

No COH violation there. It was an attempt at lighthearted humor.

{"commentId":1643378,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"anthopos"}

1 vote

#6.7 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 10:10 AM EDT

{"commentId":1645018,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Apologies, Perry, so was my mention of the CoH.

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1 vote

#6.8 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 5:13 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642011,"authorDomain":"DataBoy"}

DataBoy

Could this be...um...April Fool's?

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2 votes

#7 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:43 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642060,"authorDomain":"LamontCranston"}

The timing is certainly regrettable, but I can assure you this is certainly NOT April Fool's. In fact you can see the Wilkins anomaly clearly on the third image from the top at http: // earthobservatory. nasa. gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17977. I can't include a direct link here for some reason - no doubt the NV server glitches described above.

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3 votes

#7.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:58 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642080,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Good eye Lamont! I had to take the image into gimp and blow it up to see what you mean. That'd make a great seed in its own right. I wish Google maps imagery was current for this!

Folks, please do check out Cranston's link to satellite images of the anomaly - really excellent. Lamont, did you find that from the Miskatonic site or just by Googling?

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3 votes

#7.2 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:03 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642059,"authorDomain":"DataBoy"}

DataBoy

I'm not a retard, honest.

{"commentId":1642059,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"DataBoy"}

1 vote

#8 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 9:58 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642068,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

That's quite all right Databoy, it's an easy mistake to make on a day like today. No one thinks the less of you for it I'm certain.

{"commentId":1642068,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

3 votes

#8.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:01 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642588,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}

I am no stoner treat...

{"commentId":1642588,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"spookybf"}

1 vote

#8.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:03 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642610,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}

I'm not a stern art nod.

{"commentId":1642610,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"spookybf"}

1 vote

#8.3 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:16 AM EDT

{"commentId":1645506,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}

I tread smoother, tanner...

{"commentId":1645506,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"spookybf"}

1 vote

#8.4 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 7:45 PM EDT

{"commentId":5815681,"authorDomain":"spookybf"}

I'm not a retard, honest...

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#8.5 - Sun Mar 8, 2009 5:29 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642316,"authorDomain":"agio"}

agio

Nice Lovecraftian discovery. Did they happen to find an altar to Nyarlathotep??

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2 votes

#9 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642355,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

The Nyarlathotep cult is more common in the tropics, and has less to do with chthonics, though I suppose it is possible some of Dyer's permutahedra could be trapezohedra. I'll send your question off to the MU-Alum list and see if any of those fellows can shine some light on the matter.

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3 votes

#9.1 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:44 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642383,"authorDomain":"montezumawell"}

Johnny MonteRestored

Duh--April Fool--early

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2 votes

#10 - Mon Mar 31, 2008 11:57 PM EDT

{"commentId":1642771,"authorDomain":"Spaman"}

Spaman

Very good - but just be aware, that when the next ice shelf disolves, it will unvover a huge glass dome where a previous civilisation lived - they had to build the shield due to the ice age overtaking them - might be some clues as to how we might survive the next ice age

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6 votes

#11 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 4:54 AM EDT

{"commentId":1642806,"authorDomain":"JesusaBernardo"}

Jesusa Bernardo

Really spectacular if it's a genuine find.

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5 votes

#11.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 5:45 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643029,"authorDomain":"georgejsmyersjr"}

George Myers-150923

It was bound to happen they've been flying helicopters over the ice field collecting meteorites for a number of years (no white ones). Pandering to the Lara Croft story no doubt. The hay there has anthrax in it, provided for the Himalayan ponies. The Chinese astronomers are setting up an automated astronomical observatory there eventually. Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction. Have you seen the Russian wooden church?

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2 votes

#12 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 8:10 AM EDT

{"commentId":1643522,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

ShaunV

Interesting article.

The link in the e-mail did not work. I had to click on your user name to find this.

{"commentId":1643522,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

2 votes

#13 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 10:45 AM EDT

{"commentId":1645025,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

That's interesting. I've found several of my articles disappear without a trace when I rather think they deserve at least a little attention. Of course I flatter myself, but could you email me the non-working link?

Thanks!

{"commentId":1645025,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

1 vote

#13.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 5:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645047,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

ShaunV

I deleted the e-mail. Hence I no longer have the link. I tried the link several times, but it just brought me to the main Newsvine page.

Other people have mentioned that article links disappear. Not sure what the issue is.

{"commentId":1645047,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

2 votes

#13.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 5:25 PM EDT

{"commentId":1643640,"authorDomain":"ambertreeleaves"}

Ambertreeleaves

You know, when I clicked on the link, I really was hoping this would turn out to be real. I was thinking of telling my son that the remains of a colony of waterbenders had been found, like in his favorite tv show, Avatar. This was really clever!

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3 votes

#14 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 11:10 AM EDT

{"commentId":1644415,"authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

ShaunV

Didn't it show up under INSTANT FICTION, in your e-mail?

I thought the non-working link was the joke.

{"commentId":1644415,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"SVForbes"}

4 votes

#14.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 2:30 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645429,"authorDomain":"ambertreeleaves"}

Ambertreeleaves

I found this under Newsvine Science as a feed on my Newsvine home page, not as an email. The link worked fine yesterday evening.

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1 vote

#14.2 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 7:22 PM EDT

{"commentId":1644694,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}

Nice! Well done!

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3 votes

#15 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 3:38 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645072,"authorDomain":"stevehouse"}

SteveHouse

Though badly damaged by the drilling, Lake reports intact samples have been obtained.

I guess I'm the only one who thinks it was funny that Lake was badly damaged by the drilling. :(

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3 votes

#16 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 5:33 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645225,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Now you point it out I think it's pretty funny too.

{"commentId":1645225,"threadId":"242425","contentId":"1399411","authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

1 vote

#16.1 - Tue Apr 1, 2008 6:20 PM EDT

{"commentId":1645835,"authorDomain":"leonidas"}

leonidasDeleted

{"commentId":1646151,"authorDomain":"ann-2"}

Ann S Koi

It would be a funnier april fools joke if you hadn't "borrowed" a photograph from my prop website for your purposes without permission, which I would have considered granting. Independent artists != corporate concerns. I own that image and my work belongs to a niche market which is extraordinarily difficult to locate and sell to... not that it means anything to you, clearly. The pictures are on the internet, so they must be free and available for your use, of course.

Sincerely,
Ann Synesthesia Koi
sculptor of the Cthulhu Bust you felt free to use as "Large Cephalopod Fetish"
world wide web dot moritorium dot com

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#18 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 12:13 AM EDT

{"commentId":1646299,"authorDomain":"leonidas"}

leonidasDeleted

{"commentId":1646349,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Many apologies Ann, it is a wonderful piece and I was unaware that you regard the image as copyright. Indeed it just popped up in google images and I grabbed it for the prank without clicking through to see from where. While there are many other Cthulhu statues, yours was the only one that didn't look like it was manufactured by humans in 20C - very cool.

Though I can't say for sure I believe google probably had it from the commercial gallery here. But t seems they're sold out - do you have them with anyone else? I'd love to buy one!

In any case if you'd like the image removed from this article of course I'll do so immediately - please just let me know. Otherwise I am very curious about whether you based it on the Ross Sea cephalopod - those eyes! - or whether that resemblance is just a sign the stars are right ...

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1 vote

#18.2 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 2:36 AM EDT

{"commentId":1646182,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}

Self-promotion is against the CoH. And your website is broken.

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2 votes

#19 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 12:33 AM EDT

{"commentId":1646353,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Um, whose self promotion? If you mean Ann, I think she's certainly owed props for such an excellent piece of work. Otherwise please say.

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1 vote

#19.1 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 2:39 AM EDT

{"commentId":1646798,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}

Linking to your personal website within a post is a violation of the CoH. Besides disturbing me that this person has nothing better to do than browse the web creating accounts just to whine about copyright infringement. I mean, OMG, how did she even find it, assuming it is her and not some troll who just happened to recognize the photo. Your mileage may vary. But a nice "hey, that's my pic, thanks for giving me exposure" would have been a much nicer way to start her visit here. Since I am a huge Cthulhu fan and have never heard of her, her reputation is permanently marred by this incident and IF I ever see anything by her at a Con or faire, I will immediately laugh because of this and tell everyone with me about what happened and we will all laugh.

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4 votes

#19.2 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 8:56 AM EDT

{"commentId":1649748,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Ouch! But glad to meet a fellow Cthulhu fan. As to how Ann found this thing here, the article seems to be getting "Newvine link love" from half a dozen blogs around the joint, including a couple of non-English language ones that may have left off the "April Fools" context. When I get link love from Snopes I'll start feeling like Orson Welles ...

In fact this is altogether too much fun. Makes me wonder how many "real" news stories start out the day as jokes among journalists!

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2 votes

#19.3 - Wed Apr 2, 2008 9:48 PM EDT

{"commentId":1650107,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}

YAY. All hail the Nameless Ones. Hey, you seen the hymnal? My fav, not there I don't think, is:

Cthulhu Calling on the Wind
TTT: "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas

You think you know the only god to pray to
And Cthulhu's just myth beneath the sea But I know all the names of all the Old Ones
All my life, have their spirits, lived in me.
You think that every god must look like people
And not some icky thing from outer space
But if you walk beside Nyarlathotep
You'll meet things that have no face, that have no face

Come follow hidden paths that lead to nowhere
Come taste the fresh cut fungi from Yuggoth
Come roll in lotus flowers brought from Sarnath
And for once, dream the dream your kind forgot
Byathis and his kin they are my brothers
The Black Goat's thousand young they are my friends
And we will someday merge with one another
In a mythos, in a tale that never ends

Where does the Miskatonic flow?
If you dam it up, you won't ever know
And you'll never see the Shoggoth in the pale moon light
For whether we have scales or human skin
We need to sing to Azathoth high in the Mountains
We need to hear Cthulhu calling on the wind
We need to hear Cthulhu calling on the wind
You can sail the seas and still
He will wait and dream until
You can hear Cthulhu calling on the wind

Shareright (sr) 1995 James Westbrooks

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2 votes

#19.4 - Thu Apr 3, 2008 12:28 AM EDT

{"commentId":1997878,"authorDomain":"ackander"}

R. Scannapieco

William G. Dyer has been dead since 1997. Funny how he's in Antarctica this year finding burried cities under the ice... :P

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1 vote

#20 - Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:57 PM EDT

{"commentId":2352849,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Wow, there really was a professor William Dyer! I wonder if he was a Lovecraft fan?

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1 vote

#20.1 - Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:38 AM EDT

{"commentId":2132300,"authorDomain":"maox"}

I can't bother reading through the comments to see if anyone selse spotted it, but the first picture is actually a kind of stylized photo of a swedish subway station. The escalators are clearly visible. How anyone could believe that it is.. Whatever it is you people think it depicts, is beyond me.

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1 vote

#21 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 9:37 AM EDT

{"commentId":2132413,"authorDomain":"maox"}

[And upon bothering reading the comments after all, yeah, this is pretty good. I'm such a sucker for stuff like this, even after recognizing the photo I re-read the whole article JUST IN CASE they put the wrong picture in there and the story turned out to be true after all.. Guess it's the same kind of yearning we all share for some catalyzing event that would change the way we view our human civilization and unite all mankind against either a common threat or unite us all in the face of some kind of undeniable and clear cosmic ancestral roots. If we'd just get invaded by aliens already! How bad could it be to be slaves under evil galactic masters? Like, we're already destroying ourselves and our planet and giving up our freedoms to the monsters who ALREADY rule us, so, how much worse could the aliens really be?]

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1 vote

#21.1 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 9:59 AM EDT

{"commentId":2134925,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Hey Maox,

Monsters don't rule us. Let me hep you (and me) up to the truth.

Lots of people find meaning in being human. You know that whole love, work, respect, power, charity, dream, fear, hope, gain, loss, attachment gig, wandering around pretending that they're special and the people they love are special.

Some people don't find enough meaning in that. They stick their heads up a few inches above their eyes and notice that, hey, wtf, we're all monkeys! I mean we may not be picking fleas off each other but the work we do is just as meaningless. Farming to feed the monkeys, dressing the monkeys in colored rags, accounting for the monkeys pieces of paper on other pieces of paper, and so on. And they write long screeds about how oppressed we all are by the monkeys who call themselves our masters, and how it really is all someone else's fault.

A few people don't find meaning in that either. They stick their heads up a few inches higher than the humans and the monkeys and they say, ah, the difference between us and the monkeys is that we can inject ideas into each other, ideas that can copy themselves, memes and businesses and countries and systems, and it is very meaningful to do that because when you do it right all the other monkeys will dance around in those systems doing the watusi, or the nazi party, or whatever you want to call your own special invented kind of dance.

And there's just a few people who don't find enough meaning in that either. These people stood way up on tiptoes to see the special people, the monkeys, the dances, all of it as waves on a kind of river, waves flowing back and forth over the surface of mind on all scales and timebases, connecting every part of the universe to every other part in endless variety and flowing change. An inexhaustible floriad of flowering and decaying thoughts and forms, and the monkeys and dances as just a few of these.

And then there's you and me. We're making our own meaning in this conversation right here all around us. Snug as bugs in a rug. We can say anything, do anything, because we're the only ones here. Which brings us full circle on the wheel of karma, sure, and that's just something monkeys made up, fine, and we monkeys can always make up something else. Monsters if you like, or beautiful children dreaming in the small hours of the morning about monsters, or parents hearing their children sob, and going to cover up their toes in kicked off blankets and hug and comfort them and then sit down to write about monsters.

Well?

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1 vote

#21.2 - Mon Jul 7, 2008 4:01 PM EDT

{"commentId":2979031,"authorDomain":"maox"}

I'm sorry, I couldn't bear reading your whole post, but yeah, some people have their heads stuck so far up their own asses that all they do is talk about their own enlightenment and vomit truistic "wisdoms" over everyone they meet so that they can feel a bit more special.

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2 votes

#21.3 - Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:55 PM EDT

{"commentId":2980011,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Good point!

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1 vote

#21.4 - Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:10 PM EDT

{"commentId":5368360,"authorDomain":"maox"}

"NO U".

Fixed that for you.

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#21.5 - Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:13 AM EST

{"commentId":5815474,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Thanks, Maox, very helpful.

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#21.6 - Sun Mar 8, 2009 5:15 PM EDT

{"commentId":2206150,"authorDomain":"ferrousarts"}

ferrous

Is "take a lily" a sneaky reference to John Lily? if so, this entire thing makes sense.

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1 vote

#22 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:54 PM EDT

{"commentId":2241999,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Nah. Shoggoths are fond of the word "tekelili", apparently something their elder thing masters used to say to them. Probably means something like, "shamble a little faster, won't you?"

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1 vote

#22.1 - Mon Jul 21, 2008 9:17 AM EDT

{"commentId":2352322,"authorDomain":"mysterio"}

Tim-404592

This is I think a fake. Go here This is all based on an H.P. Lovecraft story.
Amazingly there is a new movie about Cthulhu coming out.

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1 vote

#23 - Sat Aug 2, 2008 10:54 PM EDT

{"commentId":2352824,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}

Well, this was an April fool's joke. But apparently you're right, there is going to be a movie. If I were going to do publicity for that I wouldn't start here. I'd start with rumors of a string of psychotic breakdowns among bloggers who have reviewed a certain film. Get the AICN guys in on the act ... I'm sure they'd do it for yucks ...

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1 vote

#23.1 - Sun Aug 3, 2008 12:33 AM EDT

{"commentId":3652090,"authorDomain":"Rargle"}

H.P. Lovecraft

PLEASE, please tell me the scientists are going to name this city R'lyeh... I'm sure that's what it is. The first picture, you think that's a squid? Think again.

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#24 - Thu Oct 23, 2008 12:43 PM EDT

{"commentId":5830193,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}

Ryan Stolte-Sawa

...I really, really wish this was real...

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2 votes

#25 - Mon Mar 9, 2009 3:21 PM EDT

{"commentId":7457219,"authorDomain":"interracialactivist"}

Peyton Cottrell II

In my opinion those photographs that are shown at the top part of this website page are genuine, and this ancient city should be in prestine condition thanks to the realistic natural intervention of that ice that has covered this historic find for centuries, thereby tightly packaging and preserving all of the artifacts that are contained from within that city.

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1 vote

#26 - Thu Jun 4, 2009 10:47 AM EDT

{"commentId":7469944,"authorDomain":"PeterMerel"}