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No, it’s not a crass, gynecologically themed all girl indy band. It’s a strange place in Peru with thousands of large holes bored into stone and clustered into a pretty long strip. It’s weird alright – and there are several theories as to what the stone holes were used for. Those theories range from grain storage to UFO this-or-that.

We’re guessing it was built as a large, impossible to miss mini-golf course for giants.

Peru’s got some pretty weird ancient art work dotting there landscape. They’ve got the Nazca Lines – huge, ancient renderings of a monkey, an astronaut & what-have-you that can only be seen from the sky. As if that’s not weird enough they also have the Band of Holes.

Never heard of it? Well then read this splurb from World-Mysteries.com:

“These strange holes, stretching for a mile over uneven mountain terrain, were here for so long that the local people have no idea who made them, or why. Funny thing is no one really saw the big picture until the area was seen from the air.”

Nobody really knows what they are. Not only that, but there is debate over whether they were made by nature, by Peruvians or by aliens that transported stubby drills a really long way. World-Mysteries.com has more on the holes:

“Each hole is a meter wide and just as deep. There are eight holes spanning 24 meters in width, marching in repetitive uniform fashion, from the Pisco Valley rolling over a mile through mountain terrain — finally disappearing in the misty mass of Peru. These holes remind …of the traces left by a massive drilling rig moving along methodically, testing the geology of the Andes for precious metals. Lasers have also left such tracings in the ground. Archaeologists say they represented defensive positions or graves for the ancient ones, except why would you bury anyone on a slope in rocky soil at more than a 45-degree angle?”

The only thing we really know is the holes, in hard rock, would be incredibly hard to carve out. Why would the natives go through the effort? Is there a religious purpose? Perhaps their king lost his keys.

In a mountain.

Whatever the reason – the strange holes are interesting.

Whoever made them.

Natalie Portman is lovely looking isn’t she? Even when dressed in ridiculous clothes and faced with the immensely wooden acting of Hayden Christensen in the newest Star Wars films, she still managed to look all lovely and lovelier.

Now Portman is set to look really quite lovely in the new Alien prequels which Ridley Scott has promised will be so grotesque that we might just puke all of our bones up through our faces.

Even if Natalie Portman ends up covered in alien vomit and has enormous, gaping wounds all over her body after being attacked by weird creatures, she’ll still make us all sigh like lovelorn schoolboys.

Apparently, Scott really wants Natalie Portman to play the film’s female lead. If you’re wondering, the lead is a colonial marine general. So that’d be lovely BUT REALLY TOUGH Natalie Portman on our screens.

Of course, she’s not said yes to the role and, should she decide to turn the gig down, then it is rumoured that the second choice is The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo star Noomi Rapace.

She’s quite lovely too, but not a lovely as lovely Natalie Portman.

In other news concerning the film, it’s said that Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof has finished his rewrite of the film’s script and that all concerned are rather happy with the way it looks. Weirdly, revisions have been put forward which will lower the movie’s age certificate.

And there’s us thinking that this was going to be a ming-fest.

There’s very little in the way of plot details emerging thus far, but we understand that the Alien prequel has been set around 35 years before the original film and that it may hit the screens in 2011.

Natalie Portman is really lovely isn’t she?

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Bungie, the developers behind games such as Halo, Halo 2 and… erm, Halo 3 have made an announcement to all the people playing the leaked version of their latest game, Halo 4… I mean Halo: Reach.

Halo: Reach for the Stars is a first person shooter set somewhere in outer space and requires the player to climb various mountains higher and ultimately follow their heart’s desire. Okay, I may have confused the plot of the game with a song by S Club 7, but to be honest the plot is so ridiculously complex I genuinely can’t be bothered going into it. In its most basic form it works like this: Man has gun, man has space suit, man go into space and shoot evil alien for arbitrary reason that serves as a plot device.

Somehow the Halo series has become the iPhone of Xbox games, except it came out before the iPhone and people who own it don’t tend to try and show off their new copy of Halo by laying it out on the table at every opportunity. Well, some people do, but they’re creepy and weird.

Anyway, being that this game is the be all and end all of gaming, the launch of Halo: Reacharound has encountered the same problem as every digital entertainment format in the last 10 years, it’s been pirated to high heaven and Bungie have had enough! The makers of the game have said that no-one playing should get too attached to any equipment or credits they’ve garnered during their illegal little online romps, as everything will be reset when the game is officially released and Bungie have written the whole episode off as, “beta testing.”

Cue rioting in the streets complaining on internet forums as players try to figure out a way to get around the reset, only to be told by Bungie that the second they connect to the Xbox LIVE servers they’ll be identified as a new user and reset to n00b status, this may or may not have been followed by the Bungie PR rep sticking two fingers up at the pirates, blowing a raspberry and telling them to, “jog on.”

TLDR; Bungie steal from pirates, LOL!

Don’t tell William Shatner about aliens. He knows all about aliens. He was captain of the Starship Enterprise.

He’s met loads of aliens. Admittedly most of them looked identical to minor 1960s television actresses and, by ‘met’, we obviously mean that William Shatner has tried poking his fingers up their mimsies at least once in a boneheaded and morally dubious explanation of what love is, but he’s definitely met them. And that’s why he’s so certain that there is life on other planets.

Yes, William Shatner has come out and conclusively stated his belief in aliens. And, yes, the reason we’re telling you this is because arse-all else has happened today and we’d clearly prefer to screech on about nothing than do decent thing and just shut up for a change. Happy now?

Is there life on other planets? This is a question that has divided humans for decades. Some think there is, some think there isn’t, most really haven’t given it much thought because they’re busy people and it really doesn’t make much of a difference either way and shut up because Cash In The Attic‘s on in a minute. But William Shatner knows. Oh, he knows alright.

Actually, he doesn’t know. William Shatner doesn’t have the foggiest about whether aliens can realistically exist or not. How could he? He’s not an astrobiologist. He’s just a man who pretended to be a spaceman for a TV show and then sold something he’d pissed out to a casino. It’s simply his opinion that aliens exist. You know, just like how it was his opinion that releasing a spoken-word album of hits of the day in the 1960s would be a good idea, or that nobody would ever be able to tell that he’s wearing a wig. In short, William Shatner’s opinion is so flawless that we may as well regard it as fact.

Still reading this? Hooray, your lives are as bleak and empty as ours! By way of a congratulation, here’s what William Shatner said about the possibility of life on other planets:

“There is no doubt that there is life out there; the mathematics of it lead you to that absolute conclusion. In my mind, there is no doubt that the universe teems – teems – with life in all its forms.”

So there you have it – William Shatner is convinced that aliens exist. Join us tomorrow when we’ll be telling you whether or not Jimmy Tarbuck has ever seen a ghost. Or, oh, something.

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Typical alien harassment includes your bed being surrounded by little green men in the middle of the night, or your car being surrounded by Mexicans offering to install your new garden hose for a reasonable fee as you’re pulling out of the Home Depot.

For some though, alien harassment includes slight destruction of property. For the record – when we said ‘for some’ at the beginning of that last sentence, we meant ‘for one.’ And that’s because some guy thinks that an alien marksman in orbit has singled out his house, and hit it with six verified meteorites in the past three years.

One would think that if aliens were interested in us, it would be in a scientific sort of way. If they were  interested in anything but our forms of government, our feeble attempts at science or why corn shows up in our poop unaltered, we’d be surprised.

But according to a Bosnian named Radivoje Lajic, these aliens are interested in much more than corn-filled poo. They also like to watch him step outside in a rain storm and wave his fist at the sky while yelling horrible things he intends to do to the mother of whoever threw that last space rock.

In case we haven’t mentioned it already – his house has been hit with six meteorites in the last three years. As the Metro puts it:

“Radivoje Lajic first came to international attention in 2008, shortly after the fifth meteorite had crashed into the roof of his house in the northern village of Gornji Lajici. And now, within the past month, another rock has hit the roof of his house, in defiance of all the odds – making it six strikes since the plague of meteorites began in 2007.

“Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the falling rocks he has handed over were meteorites. They are now trying to work out what exactly it is about his house that particularly attracts them. The strikes always happen when it is raining heavily, he says, never when there are clear skies.”

And now we’ll list every reason we can think of why this one house would consistently be hit by meteorites.

1: It takes up all of Bosnia. The house is absolutely massive and the roof literally stretches from border to border.

2: Lajic’s wife sucks not only the souls of men, but also the souls of passing cosmic bodies.

3. God hates him with a rarely shown godly passion.

Clearly all of the above reasons are both plausible and likely – but Lajic casts them aside for a theory of his own. This from the Sun:

Lajic, 50, who has had a steel girder reinforced roof put on the house to protect himself from further strikes, is convinced he is being persecuted.

He said: “I am obviously being targeted by extraterrestrials. I don’t know what I have done to annoy them but there is no other explanation that makes sense.

“The chance of being hit by a meteorite is so small that getting hit six times has to be deliberate. If you rule out the possible, then the impossible must be true.”

Well let’s just hope the ETs are content to harass from a distance. If not, Lajic could find himself on the receiving end of a little gray panty raid.

Not cool aliens. Not cool indeed.

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As far as intelligent people go, even we have to admit that Stephen Hawking is quite a clever chap.

After all, he knows the insides of space like a gynaecologist knows the insides of your wife. Putting it in simple terms, Stephen Hawking is the one bloke you’d want to have standing next to you when playing the quiz machine in the pub. He knows everything.

Because he’s super duper smart, anything that falls out of Stephen Hawking’s mouth is usually blessed with some degree of credibility. Hawking is even the sort of bloke to make a large McDonalds order sound like the most sophisticated meal ever. But recently, the professor said something that makes us think he’s losing a slight grip on reality. Whilst he’s not warning against the dangers of walking the streets at night or drunken hecklerspray writers, he instead wants us to be careful of aliens. Just in case they rip off your skin and use it as a tent.

The closest we’ve ever come to seeing an alien is in the Toy Story films. If we’re judging our knowledge based solely on this, then we’d totally embrace an oddly shaped yellow alien and keep it as a pet. Honestly, we promise to wash and feed it every day. But it seems that Stephen Hawking has other opinions on alien critters. Perhaps his sister was abducted like Mulder’s in The X-Files, or he co-scripted episodes of ALF and never got credited. Either way, Stephen Hawking doesn’t love our space age friends. Not even Marvin the Martian.

Now we don’t want to give the impression that Mr Hawking would set up some sort of death camp for aliens if they did decide to leave their boring office job and present themselves to us. But if an alien named Igziacot decided to introduce himself to you whilst having a shower, Stephen Hawking pretty much advices you to ignore him/her/it and continue your daily routine.

Surely if a foreign creature saw you bollock naked and scrubbing your bits you’d want to probably make some sort of contact with it, even if it was cries of perversion and threats of violence. The average person might, but super human geek Stephen Hawking disagrees. But why? In a quote which would probably please the readership of The Daily Mail, Stephen says:

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet.”

Does that make sense to you? It doesn’t to us. But after employing a crack team of chimps, we’ve been told that if Stephen Hawking was elected prime minister, he’d close the doors to outer space and ban flocks of alien immigrants using the seas of space to enter Britain illegally. Explaining further, Hawking added:

“Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach. If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.”

Once again, the chimps compute that Hawking thinks we have shit for brains compared to our alien counterparts who have shiny minds who could enslave our entire race, butcher our children and makes us all their bitches. Should we stand for this? Should we hell, and we plan to scare the scary aliens away with a method which anyone can do.

Simply write some rude words on some cardboard attached to a Chinese lantern and send in to space. That’ll show them who’s boss.

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Roswell’s big problem is it’s all word of mouth. There are these tremendous claims of what went on there, but why believe a low-brow farmer? The same goes for Kecksburg. Sure, we’ve heard the military hauled out a tarp-covered something-or-other that was shaped like a gigantic acorn, but show us the pictures.

That said, there’s finally a UFO-crash discovery that was caught on film – and we owe it all to commie-riddled Russia!

There are only two pieces of news that ever come out of Russia. The first is that Joseph Stalin‘s nipples used to bleed every Easter. Some say it was a heavenly reminder of his parents’ religion that he so casually cast aside. This news re-breaks every two years or so. Wait for it – you’ll see.

The second news story that always breaks from the formerly red country is that their babies are born with temporary-but-reappearing Koranic tattoos. They’ve got some crazy stuff going on over there – we’re tellin’ ya.

Imagine our surprise then, when we discovered this third story came out of the country where we thought they only had a two-template newspaper. It happened in 1968.

No doubt you’d like us to cut to the chase. Here it is as All News Web puts it:

“The Soviet Defense Ministry wrote in March 1969, Order No. 481 addressed to the Commander of the Air Defense Forces in the Sverdlosvsk Military Region Lieutenant General A.G. Ponomarenko. He was ordered to assist in every way the local KGB authorities in the operation “Sverdlovsk Midget” (small aliens), signed by the Deputy Commander in Chief of the USSR Air Defense Forces, Colonel General S.D. Lebedey, Seal stated, General Staff of the USSR Defense Ministry.

“In a second letter from November 3, 1969 on the KGB letterhead addressed to Deputy Chief of the Scientific Research Department KGB USSR, Colonel Grigoriev. The letter stated that on March 5, 1969 information was received about discovery of the unidentified object wreckage, 3 meter high and 5 meter in diameter with remains of small unknown human like creature, Operation called “Sverdlovsk Midget”.”

 

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Well don’t tell Jodie Foster, but she needn’t have made that one movie where she made love to her dead alien father on an other-planet beach. That’s because the premise of that movie – Contact we think it was called – was about how the world would react if it ever received contact from another planet.

Problem is that film was made 20 years after the fact.

SETI is a wonderful organisation that does nothing all day but listen for signals emitting from the radio antennas protruding well-above the crust of other planets. In fact their name is an acronym for Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, and they take their job quite seriously.

Imagine their surprise then, when on August 15, 1977, they received something that Space.com describes like this:

Of the many “maybes” that SETI has turned up in its four-decade history, none is better known than the one that was discovered in August, 1977, in Columbus, Ohio. The famous Wow signal was found as part of a long-running sky survey conducted with Ohio State Universitys “Big Ear” radio telescope.

The Wow signals unusual nomenclature connotes both the surprise of the discovery and its sox-knocking strength (60 Janskys in a 10 KHz channel, which is more than 50 thousand times more incoming energy than the minimum signal that would register as a hit for todays Project Phoenix.)

Now we know what you’re thinking – just because the sound was picked up by an antenna sweeping outer space doesn’t mean the sound came from there. We agree with you – until we read this next bit on our ol’ pal Wikipedia:

[An expert] has stated his doubts that the signal is of intelligent extraterrestrial origin: “We should have seen it again when we looked for it 50 times. Something suggests it was an Earth-sourced signal that simply got reflected off a piece of space debris.”

He later recanted his skepticism somewhat after further research scientifically relegated an Earth-bound signal to be astronomically unlikely, due to the requirements of a space-borne reflector being bound to certain unrealistic requirements to sufficiently explain the nature of the signal. Also, the 1420 MHz signal is problematic in itself in that it is “protected spectrum” or bandwidth in which terrestrial transmitters are forbidden to transmit. In his most recent writings, [the expert] resists “drawing vast conclusions from half-vast data.”

Your sitting there still sceptical, aren’t you? Would it help any if we told you this isn’t the only time an apparently alien signal has been received? For this next bit we are going to delve back into Hecklerspray’s own memory – to a time we took an ill-fated vacation to Puerto Rico right when 2004′s Tropical Storm Jeanne was deciding to ravish the island.

A few weeks before our trip, you see, we read a news report that the Arecibo Observatory, a huge antenna located on the island, had received what appeared to be an extra-terrestrial signal as well. While on island we took the visitors tour of the site, expecting a massive display explaining their recent good fortune in intricate detail. Instead, there was nothing.

Just before leaving we asked a worker there about the signal – and they knew exactly what we were talking about. The worker told us (and we paraphrase) that there was a system in place where people all over the world could volunteer their computers to sift through data received by the great antenna. Due to the massive amount of info received and the small-ish amount of hard drive to search through it, they hadn’t realised they’d received a signal until years after the fact. What they did get though, was three bursts of signal when you only need two to verify it wasn’t a glitch.

Furthermore, the signal was coming from a place where there was no planet to make it. As we understood it, this was implying it was coming from something intelligent made as it floated through space. Maybe it was a satellite, maybe it was a spaceship.

We’d have loved to use some sort of official quote for that last bit, but we just couldn’t find one.

Anyway – for more on the Wow! signal, enjoy this next video clip. And while you do, enjoy that nice scientist’s earring towards the end there. It’s how you know he’s not afraid to think way outside the box.

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In today's world, it's not uncommon to talk about human beings orbiting the earth, walking on the moon or sometimes somebody who's done that kind of stuff driving cross country in diapers to possibly murder her boyfriend's true love. A long time ago though – say hundreds or thousands of years – mankind must have thought the only thing living way up in the heavens was God himself.

Except for the people who already knew of mortals flying beyond the stratosphere. They'd not be surprised by our space-flight accomplishments at all. There's allegedly evidence that some people cite to prove astronauts were around a long, long time ago.

Some might argue that at least hundreds of years ago our ancestors cruised through outer space in crude, wooden spaceships powered by either sail or steam. Most would argue that we made that up just now.

There really are, though, vocal proponents that argue for something called an 'Ancient Astronaut' theory. They cite quite a bit of evidence for this too. Of course none of the evidence is so grand it will knock you on your duff, proving once and for all that cavemen knew how to make oxygen tanks – compiled, however, it does make a thought-provoking list.

Wikipedia sums up part of the 'pro' arguments:

"Proponents of ancient astronaut theories point to what they perceive as gaps in historical and archaeological records and also what they see as an absence of definitive explanations in certain contexts from the archaeological sciences. Advocates of these theories put forward as evidence their interpretations of various archaeological artifacts, which they deem to have been anachronistic or beyond the presumed technical capabilities of the historical cultures they are associated with. Another common theme relies upon the interpretation of depictions in certain ancient artworks as being representations of actual extraterrestrial visitors as realized by the contacted cultures."

Some of the artwork talked about there are just anciently drawn pictures or sculptures that in retrospect, look an awful lot like today's basic image of an astronaut. Examples of this can be found in some giant Italian landscape-paintings from around 10,000 BC that seem to depict two beings wearing a circular helmet, or in 'the Great Martian Gods,' which is a picture drawn in the Saharan Desert floor of a gigantic cyclops surrounded by what looks like disk-shaped UFOs.

The alleged ancient visitations resulted in more than just pictures – the greater portion of the ancient Astronaut theories would seem to be that we are the end result. A long time ago either our ancestors or our owners came to earth, then left us behind.

Again, Wikipedia has the skinny:

"Ancient astronaut adherents often claim that humans are either descendants or creations of beings who landed on Earth millennia ago. An associated theory is that much of human knowledge, religion and culture came from extraterrestrial visitors in ancient times: ancient astronauts acted as a “mother culture.”"

So our folks basically left us, but check in from time to time to make sure we're not at each other's throats. But of course we are at each others throats, so they're not doing a very good job.

Perhaps we are a grand experiment being studied from afar, planted here ages ago for the sole purpose of seeing the evolution of consciousness and what its development makes us do.

Or perhaps really ancient people were just into sci-fi too.

They probably had a Roddenberry in a moose-skin or something. Yes, it's all clear to us now.

Ancient Astronauts

Everyone knows that sequels generally suck. Let's face it, the only reason Hollywood comes up with a second helping is to cash in on the success of the original.

Oh, and the fact that Hollywood hasn't come up with any original ideas for years. And when they do they want to make the most of it. But sometimes sequels can actually eclipse the original.

It's certainly rare. For every Godfather Part II there is a Speed 2, Ocean's 12 and Another 48 Hours waiting in the wings. For God's sake, this was going to be a a top 10, but we could only think of five.

But anyway, here goes:

5. The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

Irvin Kershner

Geeks all around the world have been battling with this tricky question for years (or is that light years?) Is The Empire Strikes Back better than Star Wars?

Frankly, get a life.

We would say, as a kid, we probably preferred the original. It's got more action in it; it's got less Yoda talking nonsense in it; and, let's face it, you never forget your first love. But as we get older we start to appreciate the second film a lot more.

There's more Darth Vader; it has the bit in the snow; and it has Boba Fett in it (Don't start, Fett was only added to Star Wars later.)

It's a much darker film, and we can remember as a kid being angry when it finished, which is usually a good sign.

Of course, if we'd have known then that it was going to finish with a teddy bears' picnic (bloody Ewoks!) we would probably have been grateful.
 

4. Terminator II: Judgement Day (1991)

James Cameron

More thrills, more spills and more terminators. It's as simple as that.

You have all the best elements of the first one, but with better special effects. No argument as far as we're concerned.

In fact, the only thing bad about Terminator II: Judgement Day is that it led to the turd that is Terminator 3.
 

3. Dawn of the Dead (1978)

George Romero

After annoying all of the sci-fi fans, we may as well try and irritate the horror fans too.
Okay, there is no denying that Night Of The Living Dead is a true horror classic.

However, Dawn of the Dead is far more shocking, it's funnier and you get to see all of the gruesomeness in colour. Bonus.
 

2. Aliens (1986)

James Cameron

This is another one that has been argued over for far too long.

Okay, look Aliens is just better. It's got more action, more stunning death scenes and more, errr, Aliens.

Why go for one face-sucking, stomach-bursting alien (alright, so that's strictly two) when you can have an army of them?

Case closed. No, argument won.

However, we do feel a bit unclean for nominating two James Cameron films.
 

1. The Godfather II (1974)

Francis Ford Coppola

This was a tough one. Huge fans of the original Godfather.

But the fact that you have got two of possible the finest screen actors around for the price of one just swings it for us.

Al Pacino is, as always, brilliant. But Robert De Niro, who isn't always so brilliant (The Fan and Analyse This anyone?), just shades it.

And anyone who wants to argue could find themselves sleeping with the fishes.

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This week: Aliens/UFOs

In 1947 many would tell you a UFO crashed in Roswell, New Mexico and ignited ET-mania across the globe. It was a major case in which hundreds of pieces of evidence – be they physical or otherwise – have been held up in an attempt to prove to the world that the crash really happened, and the government most definitely doesn't want you to know.

Well the United States isn't the only place where something like this happened. In Mexico, for instance, a civilian airplane is said to have collided with a UFO, sending both machines plummeting to the ground. A difference in this case though, is that according to a History Channel special on the event – all the Mexican military who were involved in retrieving and transporting the object died en-route.

Perhaps Wikipedia puts it best: 

"Coyame, Mexico is a small town not far from the US border. It's home to three thousand people and possibly the best-kept secret of all-time. In August of 1974, the USA military was tracking a mysterious object over Mexico; then suddenly it disappeared from radar near Coyame. At the same time a civilian plane headed in the opposite direction is reported missing. What follows next is the stuff Hollywood blockbusters are made of: a crash site, a spacecraft, dead bodies, a covert recovery mission, and a government cover-up."

The story goes that the US did see the UFO on radar, and they were monitoring Mexico's military transmissions to find out more. Once the ship was discovered by Mexico, radio silence was ordered and the US was left in the dark. America isn't fond of being kept out of the circle, so they sent in a handful of helicopters to get more information (and probably to steal what they could).

When the Americans got on the scene wearing their hazmat suits, they found all the Mexicans dead. The disc was choptered to the US, and the civilian plane, the Mexican military vehicles, and the bodies were all destroyed. No cause of death was determined.

From there the story dissolved into Mexican folklore. Nobody seriously investigated it until the nineties when there was an explosion of UFO sightings in the country – an explosion that continues to this day, if you recall.

Where the US allegedly took the saucer is unknown. What is known is that a lot of people claim to have evidence – even physical evidence – of the crash. So did it happen?

We have no idea. 

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