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Weird how your memories of an event burned into your mind like that can be so clear and still be wrong. More proof about how eyewitness testimony is crap in many cases.

Thanks for the correction on the specific phrasing. I guess the most important part was the "major malfunction" part for the point I was trying to make, but I appreciate you finding the exact quote.

We all know and understand the literal meaning, I think it's the semantics and sentiment behind what was said though.

If I told you that the next time you drive your car there's a very high likelihood one of the wheels comes off, and it does, you're not gonna be all surprised like "whoa there's been a malfunction!!". You would probably be more like "oh that thing happened that he said was going to happen".

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True, could have been erosion and ocean currents wearing them down as well.

The inside of the tiles is pretty much a foam like texture (extremely porous), except it's hard and made out of silica. And then they would add either a white or a hard black coating on the outside

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Yes to both of those. I also don’t think the word ‚riot‘ fits particularly well, because this was a planned attack on the jews by the nazi party who were in charge (though other members of the public took part or were at least witnesses, as seen in the photos)

Very possible. Looking closer at the video shows a veneer of black around the edges of the tiles near the buried surface.

I would have assumed the entire tile was made from a black ceramic, and not just the outer veneer.

I'm assuming the tops weren't ripped off, but just eroded by sand and ocean currents. (You can see rounded cavities and voids typical of erosion in the video)

[guitar riff] Schliemann

Forgive me for nitpicking, but while I agree with you that Nelson the article was probably referencing that language, I just looked up and listened to the audio again because I remember the quote slightly differently. Here’s what he said:

>Flight controllers here looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction.

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The tiles are white on the inside, and these tiles look pretty clearly like the tops were ripped off. You can also see bits of black on the sides of some of the tiles that are still there.

The entire bottom of the shuttle had black tiles, so this piece is likely not from the bottom (unless the black tiles bleached in their stint in the ocean or they stopped using black, but I don't think they did).

Depending on what you mean, yes the sea was always there. Alexandria was founded as a port city. It was hit by a large tsunami a few hundred years after the reign of Cleopatra and subsequent earthquakes have changed the shoreline, so if the tunnels are underwater today they probably weren't 2000 years ago.

As I went through reading the title, I kinda thought this would be about USOs. That would've been cool.

Major malfunction is exactly what it was

Schliemann, is that you??

Haha as soon as i read ‘dominican team’ i was like ‘I know who this is about’ 🤣

Wonder if she ever emptied the water out of those tunnels…i never saw the follow up

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Awesome I’ll check them out, thank you!

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