According to the website and another British press
site, all of the tapes except the video on the page,
arkadysimkin.pl have been confiscated and all of
Simkins' team members have been payed off to be
silenced or have been warned to not go public or
else. I saw the video of the creature and I must
say it was incredible, but I just couldn't believe
what I was
watching what seemed to be a perfect copy of the
film, John Carpenters' The Thing. After investigating
the site I found out that it was an elaborate hoax
created intentionally for a Playstation game called
Shadow of the Colossus.
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I was shocked! It wasn't the hoax about the ice creature
that bothered me. Instead it was the idea that the issue
of peak oil is used alongside a hoax. Essentially, Sony
is saying that peak oil is as big of a sham as the Taurus
Major. Obviously it's in the best interests of Sony for
people to continue buying product and not question the
idea that we may be running out of fossil fuels. The same
fuels that are used in vast quantities to produce all
of the plastics for playstations, their game discs and
process the silicon chips inside.
The budget
for this hoax was huge. They have icebreakers, choppers,
fake podcasts, reporters, and a story that is just as
well fabricated. Shadow of the Colossus doesn't even
seem that good of a game. But in the high competition
for gaming dollars companies are getting desperate and
throwing big money at viral marketing. In addition to
this there has also been another ad about the tsunami
disaster and a giant creature that washed up after the
tsunami and has become covered up. This is built around
a grain of truth. There have been reports of fishermen
pulling up giant squid for many years and there have
been images of weird looking creatures supposedly from
the tsunami but those are simply images taken by researchers
on the NORFANZ voyage, a joint Australian /New Zealand
expedition in May-June 2003 in the Tasman Sea.
The creature
under the ice is a giant bull like creature that plays
into mythology. Taurus major may just be a metaphor
helping us describe peak oil, and we've only now discovered
the tip of the iceberg when it comes to our energy reserves.
But the truth is were well past the tip and soon an
iceburg made of sweet light crude is going to hit the
ship we call civilization.
To definatively
prove Taurus Major is a hoax the video was supposedly
shot at 81 degrees north latitude
in mid-October yet the sun is high overhead? Everyone
knows the sun doesn't shine that high up there
at that time of year. Sorry Sony, but I guess in the
world of advertising there's no such thing as bad publicity.
By: Dusko
Jocic
http://arkadysimkin.pl
http://www.us.playstation.com/Content/OGS/SCUS-97472/Site/
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/seacreatures.html
http://www.oceans.gov.au/norfanz/
http://spiralbound.net/2005/08/23/fish-supposedly-washed-up-by-asian-tsunami/
