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Originally Posted by Starfury
A. There is no such object. That article is from the Weekly World News, whose writers and editors wouldn't know the truth if it sat in their laps and called them "Mama". Nothing written in that rag has ever been the least bit true.
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This is not quite fair. They were (alas, no more!)
perfectly aware that what they printed wasn't true. When I was in high school, the
LA Times printed an article about them in one of the not-news sections. Oh, they freely admitted they were making things up, and they were genuinely concerned that other people might take what they wrote as fact. On the other hand, everyone I've ever known who's actually bought a copy has done so as a joke--I had a friend who considered a subscription--so it just seems that articles released from the bonds of the Paper get taken seriously.