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Posted by acousticguitarist • 9/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
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Is anyone else seeing the same Google Logo as me with a UFO
www.google.com.au/
Or have I spent too much time with the George's who first met the Venusians in the 50's
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Stop seeing the Geroge's. I see the regular google logo
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but weird, I'm seeing
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I see it too. Is this the result after the "Panda Goes Cosmic Blip Blip" thing?
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could be that if a person doesn't refresh their page they see the old one
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Am I the one that is going crazy? o_0
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no
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Get it here as well (UK). Unexplained phenomenon. Google's little joke one thinks.-
maybe it's not a joke
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Maybe it's because of this www.disclosureproject.org/
The 400+ government and ex gov people coming clean-
Maybe. Either way don't think that the Guardian will be complaining, wow that is going to generate a lot of traffic.
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Oooh d'oh! I get it now, google.mx also has the ufo. Why not in the US though?
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The Americans are not to know about it. Ring your Government Member and say ""Excuse me, my name is Deray, and I don't think it is fair that in other countries they can see the Google Ufo, and we Americans can't, I'm wondering if you would take this to Congress on behalf of me " :-)
Look under the bed
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I'm in the U.S. and I see it as well. The day just changed here on the east coast a half hour ago so it just probably hadn't arrived yet.-
But why is it there?
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Well, there is a UFO festival at Exeter tomorrow. That was the only thing I found related to ufos and Sep 5th date.
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My friends are calling you there
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www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090618-LIFE-906180324
They are going to discuss the Disclosure project somewhere between 8-15 and 9-30
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it's not showing on google.com but since 00:00:01 it's been showing here in Canada too www.google.ca/ and not just limited New Zealand and Australia anymore-
they do not want all our American friends to know, only some
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Maybe Google isn't doing it at all -- ever think of that? LOL -
In addition to posting the UFO logo - they posted this in thier twitter feed: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19 This code when you corospond the number to a letter of the alphabet spells "All your O are belong to us" and if you look at the the logo the second O in GOOGLE is what is being abducted. Also the .gif file is called go_gle.gif
Now I did some research and their is an "Internet Mime" or catch-phrase "All your base are belong to us." This is obviously some sort of reference to that.
From wikipedia: "All your base are belong to us" (often shortened to "All Your Base", "AYBABTU", or simply "AYB") is a broken English phrase that was central to an Internet phenomenon, or meme, in 2000-2002, with the spread of a Flash animation that depicted the slogan. The text is taken from the opening cut scene of the 1991 European Sega Mega Drive version of the Japanese video game Zero Wing,[1] by Toaplan which was poorly translated by Sega of Europe. It was popularized by the Something Awful message forums.
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hang on, I'll need to think about this
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I can not find an exact launch date of the something awful message forum, but it was started in 1999. Maybe a reference to its 10 year anniversary???
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According to the urban dictionary a gogle (google with an o missing) is "a group of people awkwardly waiting for something to happen."
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It could also be a viral marketing ploy for a movie coming out in November called the fourth kind. It's about alien abductions. But that doesn't seem to tie in well with the reference to the something awful catch phrase.
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Here is the actual answer:
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Good evening. Google does that every once in a while to celebrate the anniversary of something or when a major event occurs. If you click the actual UFO it will send you to a google link with more information.
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The above picture I posted is from unexplainedphenomenon dot org but that website looks like it was built today and may be someone scamming people to cash in on the google thing and may not be affiliated with it at all. It aslo appears they are charging 11.11 for access.
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I'm being told now that yesterday was in fact the 20th anniversary of Zero Wing's release in Japan's arcades. "All your base belongs to us." Like I stated previously originated from this video game.
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If anybody still cares - cause I sorta do - I am told that wikipedia was edited to show the release date of zero wing as september 5th but was actually sept 21st. Wierd stuff.
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Mystery solved!
Who is H.G. Wells? That’s what many Googlers are asking after an elaborate three weeks of mysterious logos on the Google homepage. But the company lifted the veil early this morning, explaining the series of UFO-inspired doodles.
First came the Sept. 5 image of a UFO abducting the second O in Google’s name. The odd picture came with the cryptic Twitter tweet: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19. Each number stood for a corresponding letter (1 is A, 2 is B, etc.) All together the coded message comes out as “All your O are belong to us,” which Google acknowledged this morning was a reference to the infamously poor translation, “All your base are belong to us,” from the Japanese video game Zero Wing.
Last weekend brought the second UFO sighting on Google’s homepage. This time inspired by crop circles, the Google doodle showed a flying saucer sculpting the company’s name into an illustrated corn field. As we wrote last Monday, “to add to the mystery, Google posted the coordinates “51.327629, -0.5616088” in a cryptic Twitter tweet. Curious searchers identified the spot as Horsell, England. Sci-Fi aficionados may recognize the name. In ‘War of the Worlds,’ HG Wells wrote that Horsell residents witnessed the first UFO landing.”
Today’s close encounter came as a three-legged spaceship romping through a rural village that vaguely resembles the Google emblem. The company’s name is far more obscured than in the other two, but its meaning is finally clear.
“Now, we’re finally acknowledging the reason for the doodles with an official nod to Herbert George, who would be 143 years old today,” Google posted on its official blog shortly after midnight on Monday. “Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.”
H.G. Wells wrote several important works of early science fiction, most notably “War of the Worlds,” “The Time Machine,” and “The Invisible Man.” The British Author died in 1946.
This series was certainly one of the more involved Google doodles. Most of the company’s past tributes have been single-shot affairs. The suspense even had the Guardian hypothesizing that the stunt was “almost certainly a viral marketing campaign teasing people ahead of some launch in a week or two.” Maybe next time.
Readers, what do you think Google should riff on next? There are other important cultural birthdays coming up. Sufi poet Rumi would be 801 on Sept. 30. Musician John Lennon celebrated on Oct. 9. Painter Pablo Picasso’s 127th birthday hits October 25, but Google has already commemorated him.
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From:
features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/09/21/hg-wells-the-ufo-google-logo-m...
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