photos?
Came for the photos, left disappointed
Life-imitating-art news on the boffinry wires today, as it has emerged that a 1938 Nazi expedition to Tibet brought back a mysterious statue or idol which has now been confirmed to be of extra-terrestrial origin. It seems that the strange artifact was brought to Germany following an expedition to the remote Asian interior led …
Not to call into question our esteemed Mr Page or El Reg but it would raise more than one eyebrow if the existence of extra-terrestrials was first announced on this site. Though I would rather they get it than the Daily Mail who would undoubtedly title the article "More immigrants may be on the way" ;)
Or do I have it wrong? Is El Reg on NASAs speed dial list?
If anything, El Reg's headline on this is understated compared to the BBC, who have it on their website today as "Nazi Buddha originally from space" on the "Most Popular" sidebar. Nearly as good as my all time fave (from the Jo'burg Star, back in 1998), "Ex-President Banana, guilty of Sodomy, slips into Botswana"
"Schaefer roamed Tibet in 1938-9 to search for the origins of Aryanism, the notion of racial superiority that underpinned Nazism."
Rather like people today roam the Arctic looking for evidence of Global Warming, the notion of moral superiority that underpins Renewable Energy ?
"Rather like people today roam the Arctic looking for evidence ...." Reminds me of Voltaire's satirical couplet on the French mission to the Arctic to investigate gravitational anomalies or variation:
Those who chose in Arctic wastes to roam
Proved what Newton knew, who stayed at home.
Probably sounded even better in French!
However, the ethnological and art historical details of the “iron man” sculpture, as well as the timing of the sculpturing, currently remain speculative
I love the way Scientists come out with statements like this. Why can't he just say it properly? ie:
"That's just a load of total bollox innt?"