Giant Skeleton found after the Tsunami...

[Iron Archer]

it's probably viral marketing for that PS2 'Colossus' game

 

[Mister_Prophet]

Why do I feel as if I should have heard about it all over the news instead of a video game forum if it were real? Granted, I'd be extremely fascinated if this were true....but the lack of news flashes on TV, the paper, or any of the other big media beacons make me skeptical by default.

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

I love how in the day in age where everyone brags how many megapixels their digital camera has and how good the quality the images are produced is, is that we still get crappy blurry, out of focus shots like these. Doesn't really help at all.

I'm sure there would have been a flurry of high detailed photos and stuff too...

 

[Dragon_Myr]

You can't get high detail quality stuff and massive news coverage if everyone already thinks it's a fake before hearing about it. And there are so many fakes that people don't bother to check out the real ones.

<reporter 1> Hey there's a story about something that washed up on the beach. Sounds like a sea monster.
<producer> BS! Go interview George Lucas about how well he thinks Episode III will sell on DVD.
<reporter 1> Ok!

And prior to reading the Snopes page I had no idea they uncovered a port city that got burried. That's some pretty important news that never hit headlines either. It's not every day you dig up a city.

 

[Mister_Prophet]

People have seen decayed cities from ancient times plenty. They haven't seen bones the size of buildings washed up on a beach in the form of a giant dragon-esque organism. Any Dino bones I've seen pale in comparison to the ones on that video.

I think that if it were real, it be much bigger news than who Paris Hilton is fuking this week and I do think I would have heard it on normal news. I heard the Giant Squid thing a lot and that was a smaller story than a mountain sized fossil.

 

[DeeperShade]

no you don't
you just like to believe in a romantic imagination of a creature that was created by sailors to make their meetings with whales more impressiv to the listening crowd in a pub

I'm sorry(actually... no, I'm not, but that's a good start for a sentence, isn't it?) to break your idea of our science system, which in your words doesn't allow dragons to exist and discredit anyone who finds proof
unfortunatelly science in this world only works with evidence(real evidence, not only deductions, deductions make theories, they can explain things, but not proof something)
and there has been no evidence for dragons so far
ofcourse your deduction could lead you to the conclusion that all the drunken sailors and highly imaginative people of that time were right, and today's science is blind for not seeing the obvious proof in a fake sceleton in a dubbed indian "news report"... hm... actually you could believe that... it wouldn't change my opinion about you crazy person a bit

people who spent way too much time in their lives never getting out of a classroom to evade the confrontation with the real world spent our tax money on dragons and other silly things and wrote many books about it only to come to one conclusion(I'm sure you can read them in your local library), which I, in my humble greatness, can sum up for you: people threw all the evil things(parts of a snake, fire, etc) together to impress people and to make people afraid
kinda like the misuse of religion, but religion had an intelligent man at the beginning and the bunch of idiots, with their own objectives, managed(and still manage) to produce enough slightly disabled brainwaves, with their want-to-be cunning minds, to misinterprete words to make them justify more or less every next idiotic thought someone had
so... myth creatures are the exact opposide(from the origin, the goal is still more or less the same): idiots create them and intelligent people end the line of believers

where are you standing in the line?

Ancient China & Japan, I think you'll find is the origin.

I love how in the day in age where everyone brags how many megapixels their digital camera has and how good the quality the images are produced is, is that we still get crappy blurry, out of focus shots like these. Doesn't really help at all.

I'm sure there would have been a flurry of high detailed photos and stuff too...

Yes, damn them for someone taking their video, resizing and compressing it down so it can be streamed from a website. They are surely evil for me then taking a snapshot of that video and boosting it's size. Bastages..

Honesly SS, 'engage brain' might be a good command to run at this point

 

[yurch]

Beleive and great things will happen!

Not working. You owe me money!

 

[Airmoran]

Alternative theory on the origins of dragons.

If that theory holds, then the basis for dragons is similar to our basis for God. I mean, God can exist perfectly along-side scientific evidence, especially in an interpretive (read: non-literal) way. It ain't about if it's true or it, but what it means if it's true or not true. But yeah, don't expect a dragon to pop up, or for that matter, God. The dude's pretty pissed at us. Then again, there's a difference between the God debate and what amounts to the furry equivilent of "I want to believe" UFO conspiracy theorists.

Blah blah blah, OST is right, deduction != fact, etc. etc. etc. If you want to believe, yada yada. To think you have a stronger stance against those who believe dragons don't exist? That's a doozy. And yeah, a media cover-up of dragon bones? Uhh... no. Not isn't it not making front pages, nobody but this apparently non-existant news outlet is even reporting it. Hell, how'd "dragon" get into this? It just looks like huge ass bones. But that's a pretty damned convincing special effect, I'll give them that. Wonder if it's a model or computer generated.

Anyways, I'm on the viral marketing boat. Damn you DS for spreading the ploy to our boards.

And oh, damn them for using the whole tsunami tragedy to sell their game.

 

[missPoopShoot]

it's probably viral marketing for that PS2 'Colossus' game

Seconded. That game makes my trousers go out of shape, btw.

 

[Kaligraphic]

Those bones... they seem... familiar...

Mother? Could that have been you?

 

[GeneticFreak]

Could it be...

 

[[SAS]Solid Snake]

Honesly SS, 'engage brain' might be a good command to run at this point

So why not find some better images?

Hell, I've seen better photochops with better image quality than that.

 

[O.S.T]

Ancient China & Japan, I think you'll find is the origin.

because they found dinosaur bones and made something up
but then it got dragged to europe and they made their own version of it(like the lindworm), to make their adventures, or adventures of a former king/legendary hero/etc, more heroic
and our D&D-fantasy movie-whatever dragons today have alot more in common with the european dragons than with the asian dragons

 

[Balton]

alot of nonsense

Keep dreaming of getting nailed by a dragon. It'll stay fantasy forever.

 

[Jackal]

I thought dragons were magical. And when they died, the bones would have poofed into the air with sparkels and dust. And then Sean Connary says, " I am the last one".

 

[dub]

I am not familiar with any South Indian news station with those production values...

Actually, check out most large indian news / TV stations and I'll think you'll find that they have come a long way recently.
The stereotypical view of shaky VHS type broadcast quality is not applicable at all to most large Indian TV stations and since bollywood has blossomed the quality of Indian broadcast very much matches that of the west. (mind they do rip off every style from the west when it comes to media, but thats a different story)
That's just an unfounded sterotype tbh.
I speak from experience, having been forced to watch Indian TV / movies
Ergo, the quality of the broadcast says jack about this find

 

[Bean 3:16]

Actually, check out most large indian news / TV stations and I'll think you'll find that they have come a long way recently.
The stereotypical view of shaky VHS type broadcast quality is not applicable at all to most large Indian TV stations and since bollywood has blossomed the quality of Indian broadcast very much matches that of the west. (mind they do rip off every style from the west when it comes to media, but thats a different story)
That's just an unfounded sterotype tbh.
I speak from experience, having been forced to watch Indian TV / movies
Ergo, the quality of the broadcast says jack about this find

Yeah, I'm South Indian, thanks. Not that I doubt you, but I still catch the odd telecast from there at some friend's places, and the quality is still what I remember from my visits over there. Now, Bollywood style stuff, meaning northern India, I can't say, but I'd agree with you saying the quality is better (at least I remember it as much a while ago...it was more...Western accessible I guess). That is why I said southern, not northern. Bollywood is considered northern.

Hell, I sat down with my uncle over the summer for a Bollywood marathon, and the movies still didn't look that great, production-value wise.