Mystery of the Eltanin Antenna

Unknown Country ^ | 21-Jul-2001 | WHITLEY STRIEBER

[Leo Carpathian]

a) Captain Nemo left it there

b) It is an underwater cloth drying hanger

c) Finally, "evidence" against rep. Traficant ("Bemammeup whoever...") planted by DummycRATS

Simple, just look for the feedline and where it leads to. Maybe it leads to Osborne's Atlantis MTV.

[colorado tanker]

I choose:b) It is an underwater cloth drying hanger

Must be where the Little Mermaid and the merpeople hang their clothes.

[muawiyah]

Only counts for low density stuff. Now you get a really dense nickel-iron meteor, whizzing along at 15,000 mph relative to Earth, and it is NOT GOING TO SLOW DOWN to 286 feet per second as it enters the atmosphere and punches a hole in a car in Australia or New Zealand!

[OOTB]

I agree, nothing beats a good dipole. Except maybe three aces and a good tower mounted Yagi.

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[LayoutGuru2]

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

That doesn't look so much filtered as it does to be the negative image of the photo at the top of th article. Kind of like the Shroud of Turin negatives. The image looks clearer in negative.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

the old Antron 99 vertical is a great stick...

True enough. But I'll put my refurbished Super Penetrator 500 up against anybody's Antron.

73's back at ya. I'm QRT and standing by.     =;^)

[JennysCool]

Well, it was negative-filtered!

[The Great Satan]

"Happens all the time, man. They're
falling out of the skies like flies.
Government knows all about it...
Chariots of the Gods, man... They
practically own South America. I
mean they taught the Incas
everything they knew..."

[Eaker]

144 cubits x ...............?

[Ole Okie]

Mr. Cathie considers 144, the harmonic recriprocal of the speed of light, to be an important measure of the earth's grid because it divides into the planet's 21,600 minutes of arc exactly 150 times.

WOW!!

And the square root of 144 is 12.

And if you then add the number 7 (a prime number! a prime number!), you get:

NINETEEN!!

See?

And a new mathematical concept is introduced here: the recriprocal!

Any relation to the reciprocal?

[struwwelpeter]

The strangest part, they found one of these attached to it.

[Williams]

"A practical joke. Coke bottle tied to a window shade."

[Doohickey]

OMG, is that a Nestor?

[Fiddlstix]

Looks to me like some nitwit tried to make a weather vane while in a drunken stupor, made several attempts, finally gave up and threw the whole mess overboard.

[Swordmaker]

Terminal velocity in air and water depend on cross sectional density more than anything. In air, the terminal velocity of a feather is considerably different than the terminal velocity of an anvil.

The "antenna" could be nothing more than something dropped overboard that impacted vertically and is stuck in the muck.

Where is Robert Ballard when you really need him???

[Swordmaker]

One comment: most objects at the bottom of the ocean, including metal, eventually acquire a coating of marine life and silt... this does not appear to have such on it.

[Paulus Invictus]

Where can I buy a hat like this one? It has a nice design and looks impermeable to incoming waves of UFO-generated brain scramblers. I saw an antenna like this one at KMart. They are called rabbit ears and pick up TV, radio and UFO signals.

[VadeRetro]

In 1964, the ship photographed an unusual object at a depth of 13,500 feet. At the time, there was no submarine that could have carried a piece of technology to this depth.

If I wanted it down there, whatever it is, I wouldn't try to "carry it down." I'd drop it from the surface.

Reminds me of Stan Laurel throwing Oliver Hardy a rope when the latter is stuck on a roof. "Tie it around your waist!"

[strela]

I must admit that the old Antron 99 vertical is a great stick for punching out in the 10 and 11 meter bands.

Fine antenna, that. The A99 works much, MUCH better with the ground plane kit though.