NOAA finds mysterious patterns of holes that "look almost human made" at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean

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Originally published at: NOAA finds mysterious patterns of holes that "look almost human made" at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean | Boing Boing

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Some kind of deep ocean worm

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It’s the perforations for the “Tear here to bisect planet” left by aliens

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Its the opening to Pandorica

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Animated GIF

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I’m more concerned about the potential Benthic Treaty violation

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Maybe: Pattern left by UAV that was surveying for rare earth metals

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There are a lot of weird sea floor burrows and the like. Like these fossils.

I have a bunch of burrow casts from some arthropod I found in a highway cut.

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Lot of critters in the sea make sand art. Here’s a puffer fish nest:

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it’s a zipper - when you pull it the Earth unfolds to its true flat state

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it’s the vent system for an alien craft cleverly burrowed into the ocean floor

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deep penetrating tracks left by a ground roving submersible

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it’s some cheap-ass promotion for a bitcoin casino

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Came her to post this

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They’ll be back later to add the stitches.

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Finally, the utility companies have discovered a new frontier for digging up buried fiber optic cables!

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Why did the arthropod cross the road?

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From the FaceBook Comments, the two red dots are 4" apart.
From that I was going to guess that it was a piece of buried (perforated) French drain pipe as the slots (holes) appear to be too consistent for anything made by nature.

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Mid-Atlantic Ridge Sea Gophers

You may familiar with their terrestrial relatives…

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Cut here to release kaiju.

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‘ strange sets of holes in the sediment that seem to be in linear pattern, like perforations’

It’s in the instructions: ‘To open the North Atlantic, rift along the dotted line.’

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When a crevice opens up under sediment under water which moves (currents, waves, daily cycles), silt/sediment/soil falls into the rift from the sides and the ends of wider/deeper parts… looking exactly like this. Check back in a while, it will either just be a crease, or the crack will be obvious.

Sorry to be pedantic, but, haven’t these people played with sand and water and waves?

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