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    Image of Insomnia Bob Insomnia Bob
    09/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    That's not a ghost. And it's not a woman, either.

    Hm. Long coat. Absurdly long scarf. Mop of curly hair on top of the head...

    All that's missing is a little robotic dog shaped like a toaster.
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    Image of Plague Plague
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    Well, Spandau Ballet IS reforming, so that could explain it.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/27/09

    @Plague: REALLY?
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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    "because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this."


    Clearly the expert quoted has never been to Cardiff, for as far as I was able to tell, there ain't much to do there except cosplay. To wit: this photograph I took at the Millenium Centre last month.


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    Image of Elizabeth Weinbloom Elizabeth Weinbloom
    03/27/09

    @Elizabeth Weinbloom: Ugh, photo embed fail. Seriously, where did the "preview comment" feature go?


    And if that fails, [2.bp.blogspot.com]

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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    ... so much hate in one post.


    I guess the internet is just not ready for Welsh Ghost humor.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/27/09

    @Dunny0: I know, so terribly sad. Do we really have to slap emoticons on everything so that these people "get it"?


    By the bye, have you been to deaddaffyddhahaha.com?

    Hysterical!

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/27/09

    @Grey_Area: If they need those damn twitching graphic smileys that are always in the banner and pop-up ads, they need to stay off the internet.
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    Image of Magicant Magicant
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    C'mon you guys. Certainly the rift in Cardiff could lead to all sorts of strange activity that Google happened to pick up.


    Shoot. Am I mixing up fiction with real life again?

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    03/27/09

    @magicant: Its all fiction. Some is just better written.
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    Image of Peter Pixie Peter Pixie
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    Google maps is also used to find Yeti (aka Snow Bigfoot) [english.pravda.ru]


    I dont know if dracula has been listed on google maps yet, but maybe it's worth a look?

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    Image of Anekanta - former space marine Anekanta - former space marine
    03/27/09

    @Peter Pixie: Where exactly is Transylvania, anyway?
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    03/27/09

    @Anekanta: Romania, I think.
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    Image of AmishJohn AmishJohn
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    It's a viral marketing ploy for a Laudinum and lacework website.
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    Image of Brine Brine
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    A medium is quoted as saying the image is clearly a ghost, because no contemporary woman would ever dress like this.


    False.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/27/09

    @Brine: I hope that the Google van drives through San Francisco next year during the Dickens Fair, so that we can have hundreds of "ghostly figures" in Street View.
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    Image of Balius Balius
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    Did the people calling for examination not look at the picture? The legs aren't missing because of extradimensional ghostiness, the picture just wasn't cropped together very well.


    Unless those are also ghostly parking poles and ghostly brick patterns, in which case I respectfully retract my pessimism.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    03/27/09

    @Balius: Those are ghostly parking poles from the great parking pole massacre of 1872. A tragic story, so many innocent parking poles slaughtered . . .
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    Image of limber limber
    03/27/09

    @Balius: Looks like Mary Poppins disappearing into a sidewalk to me. (As she is known to do.)
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    Image of WiseGuy487 WiseGuy487
    03/27/09

    In reply to Google Street View Captures Victorian Ghost Walking in Cardiff
    It's a glitch.


    Next.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    03/27/09

    @WiseGuy487: Sure, a glitch caused by ALIEN YETIS from the FUTURE!
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    03/27/09

    It's a glitch...


    CAUSED BY GOOGLE TRYING TO COVER UP SOMETHING.

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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    03/27/09

    @twophrasebark: Were through the looking glass, people.
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    Image of ceilingFANBOY ceilingFANBOY
    01/14/09

    In reply to Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?
    They have it all wrong. Mastadon isn't rock, it's METAL!!!!!11
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    Image of Purple Dave Purple Dave
    01/14/09

    In reply to Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?
    When the lake bed was dry? When exactly would that have been? As I recall, the Great Lakes were supposed to have been carved into the ground by glaciers. The only way all that ice would have been emptied out of the lake beds was when it melted...at which point it should have _become_ the lake (remember, when a glacier "retreats", it's not actually flowing back the way it came, but rather the leading edge is either melting or sublimating). And anything that was standing prior to the glacial carving would certainly no longer be arranged the way they had originally been erected before thousnads of tons of ice flowed through and carved huge canyons in the ground.


    Now, since glaciers aren't _just_ ice, I'd say it's safe to say that there were probably a bunch of gigantic boulders caught up in the ice flow, which would have gone straight to the lake bed when the glacier melted. It's possible that a boulder that took this ride could have had carvings on it before it joined the glacier, but any carvings should have been obliterated by the glacial ice flow.


    So, the reason this was announced to little fanfare was because it is completely illogical to believe that a true stonehenge-like arrangement of stones would have survived to end up on the lake bed. It also wouldn't make a lot of sense that people with no interaction with the druids would have erected something that appears to have been unique to their culture.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/13/09

    In reply to Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?
    Bunch of boulders sorta in a line. Yep, glaciers.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    01/13/09

    @Grey_Area: Psychic Mayan glaciers...from space!!!
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    Image of termitehead termitehead
    01/13/09

    In reply to Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?
    Ry'leh?
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    Image of Ed Grabianowski Ed Grabianowski
    01/13/09

    @termitehead: For a second, I considered photoshopping the ORLY? Owl into a Cthulhu Owl saying "ORY'LEH?" but I don't have time. So just imagine it.
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    Image of ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥ ♥AntiSocialSocialite♥
    01/13/09

    In reply to Another Stonehenge Discovered Under Lake Michigan?
    and i thought the lake was only good for dirty water and e. coli poisoning! FUCKIN' A! i live a few miles from lake michigan...
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