The color is a match for sure.
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Oh for the love of god, they have one single photo accompanied by a shakycam video made by someone who has apparently never tried to identify a thing before?
Please tell me there are more photos somewhere, they can’t just be like “here’s a tiny glimpse of a mystery! kthxbye!”
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Word has it that it was first spotted by a seabird, following the outline of that timeless story of “buoy meets gull”…
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Well, I would’ve, but the Monitor’s turret is already in the Graveyard of the Atlantic museum in Hatteras Village, I think, and the Merrimac didn’t have one.
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Interesting, I learned something new (as I usually always do around here!), had to look that up. [However, I looked up “dollose” and got only a definition for “dollhouse” 
and found that it’s “dolos (plural: dolosse)”]
Cool! (linking here in case some others, like me, don’t know what it is)
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Flotsom and jetsom. Flotsom floats and washes. Jetsom is that wich is thrown from the sea, some of which has been dragged along the bottom.
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Oops, correcting the spelling.
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I have a different understanding of those terms. Flotsam is accidental sea-litter (from a wreck, etc.) whereas jetsam is intentionally jettisoned from a vessel.
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Here we go:
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or maybe…
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That’s terrible, but I liked it anyway. 
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A Jawa sandcrawler is kind of a ship.
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I was guessing the light was added while it was on the beach, to keep people from driving into it. Maybe not, though…
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That’s interesting. I was told those things are called ‘armour units’ (or ‘armor units’, if you’re American).
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And all for naught. The waters pass—
Currents will have their way;
Nature is nobody’s ally; ’tis well;
The harbor is bettered—will stay.
A failure, and complete,
Was your Old Stone Fleet.
–Melville, commenting on the Union’s failed plan to block Charleston’s harbors during the US Civil War by sinking dozens of huge old ships full of stone into them.
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That’s nothing compared to the boulders that get thrown around in the really big storms:
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Re the guy who thought a metal object couldn’t float–concrete boats go back to the mid 1800s. That’s like a floating rock.
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Did it make head piercing scream when you touched it? Did it send a signal to Jupiter? You’re probably ok.
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Ah… The Shockwave Rider - very deserving of a film I always thought. One of my favorite sci-fi novels. Brunner is the guy who invented the computer worm.
John Sladek’s The Müller-Fokker Effect also tickled - not just because of the title.
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We’re asking the wrong question. It isn’t what it is that matters, it’s what’s inside.
Now if only there was someone around here who knows a guy with an oxygen lance suitable for cutting up locomotives and other unwieldy bits of metal… anyone?
Hmm. Well, in the meantime, let’s have it moved to @beschizza’s house. He has a closet there that doesn’t have a safe in it, and if he pries up a bit more of the baseboard and possibly knocks out a wall, this thing will fit nicely.
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