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The sample is at 16x the original speed. And was heard over 5000km. In other words, not a bubble. Or if it was, it was a bubble worthy of its own wiki page.



Yeah, ok. It could have been wonderful, tremendous things. IE, lochy. But I've seen this on front pages at least 50 times and there has not been the tiniest insight into what that is beyond nothing at all. Occam's razor: It was a bubble, an electrical malfunction, a manufactured hoax, etc. Why don't you post a shaky video of bigfoot instead? At least the imagination has something to chew on there.


Occam's Razor isn't "jump to simple conclusions" or "don't bother thinking about it".

It's a rule of thumb stating that you should pick the simplest of two equivalent explanations. In this case there aren't even any proposed explanations, so it does not even apply.


Or it could be something actually real and interesting like the shrimp layer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkgJQ1Fpwm4#t=1140s




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