please note: I sent a copy to the Admin Moderator. Serious here... I'm an amateur astronomer and this just irratates the H#LL out of me.
The picture or the thread?
If it's the picture, I suspect that's why the thread disintegrated. Most of us don't have the experience to make a valid call on this object, but the fact NASA and the MSM didn't make a "BIG DEAL" out of it, caused the skeptics among us to blow it off.
If it's the silly stuff on the thread, it's certainly no worse than the "never ending thread".