Well now I am totally disappointed.

Got me all hyped up for nothing.

If it really is a mushroom, then why can't they just cut into it and bring a sample back to figure it out?

You're dissapointed by a large underwater fungai that until now, nothing like this has been seen? Wow, entertainment sure has ruined people's ability to enjoy scientific finds.

This is beyond inctredible. Nothing like this (other than mycelium roots) have been found like this. However, until further testing, dives and videos are done/released, it could still be a rock formation under a small layer of living plant matter.

Maybe it's an alien mushroom.

That's even more incredible (if true) than it being a crashed alien spacehip. A giant underwater mushroom? A massive and hitherto unsuspected organism?

Maybe it IS an alien?

Originally posted by Manhater
Well now I am totally disappointed.

Got me all hyped up for nothing.

If it really is a mushroom, then why can't they just cut into it and bring a sample back to figure it out?

edit on 16-6-2012 by Manhater because: (no reason given)

I don't mind saying I am a little let down too. I had SO hoped this was a retrievable spacecraft that I was already trying to guess the make and model. In fact I thought it was exactly the same as the alien craft shown to Dorothy Isatt in a thread here on ATS like ...yesterday.

Mushrooms are cool too though and this is a big 'un! This is the barrier reef of mushrooms...

AHHHHHHHHHHH its a spaceship using fungi as a cloaking device. Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!

Its stone ( maybe sandstone) that's mushroom shaped in appearance , it is not a giant mushroom .
Once again they release nondescript pictures of the thing to keep you all sucked in and retain an air of mystery over what is at the end of the day a rock or a collection of rocks .

What I can't work out is why this is still being posted in the Aliens and UFOs forum as we now know its neither Alien or a UFO .

Originally posted by AaronWilson
You're dissapointed by a large underwater fungai that until now, nothing like this has been seen? Wow, entertainment sure has ruined people's ability to enjoy scientific finds.

This is beyond inctredible. Nothing like this (other than mycelium roots) have been found like this. However, until further testing, dives and videos are done/released, it could still be a rock formation under a small layer of living plant matter.

edit on 16-6-2012 by AaronWilson because: (no reason given)

I don't know...They think it is some kind of a mushroom colony already and took some of it. You can't really hack off a piece of rock like they did with this. I am a little disturbed they started hacking into it myself. Seems a little rash and hasty.

Originally posted by gortex
Its stone ( maybe sandstone) that's mushroom shaped in appearance , it is not a giant mushroom .
Once again they release nondescript pictures of the thing to keep you all sucked in and retain an air of mystery over what is at the end of the day a rock or a collection of rocks .

What I can't work out is why this is still being posted in the Aliens and UFOs forum as we now know its neither Alien or a UFO .

Try to wrap your head around it.
Most people know this as the Millennium Falcon Baltic Sea UFO, everything else on it has been posted here in UFO's, it is where I looked to find the story covered on ATS and though it may be incorrectly placed here, until mods move it, I can't move it for you. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Did you read the story? They are already fairly sure it is a colony of mushroom and open to the possibility it is resting on a rock formation. I think the scientific team are familiar with a rock if not a gigantic 'shroom. I am not sure why no one is guessing coral?

Maybe its some huge kind of (calcified) sponge. But what about the sandstone rock they are talking about?
I dont get it: is it organic or is it rock?

Can it be a meteorite?

Originally posted by gortex
Its stone ( maybe sandstone) that's mushroom shaped in appearance , it is not a giant mushroom .
Once again they release nondescript pictures of the thing to keep you all sucked in and retain an air of mystery over what is at the end of the day a rock or a collection of rocks .

What I can't work out is why this is still being posted in the Aliens and UFOs forum as we now know its neither Alien or a UFO .

I was unaware you're on the dive team that investigated this! Are you in the video above? Which one are you? You mentioned in any of the articles? I only ask because you speak as though you were on board and know these interesting details as fact. Do you?

They think it is something like a mushroom formation clinging TO the under laying rock. I think it might even be coral. I don't pretend to know though. I could be wrong.