Google UFO Doodle Explained
Written by Nancy Atkinson
The intertoobs have been abuzz with Google's seemingly unexplained latest doodle: A UFO beaming up one of Google's "O"s. The plot thickened when Google's Twitter account Tweeted the following: "1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19." What did it all mean? Was Google giving credence to UFO believers? Or referring to the wife of Japan's new Prime Minister for her belief that she traveled to Venus on a UFO? Or perhaps honoring Voyager 1's launch (Sept. 5, 1977) or space shuttle Discovery's first landing on Sept. 5, 1984? None of the above, it turns out.
Google was paying homage to the 20th anniversary of 1980s Japanese video game, Zero Wing. According to CNET, apparently a villan from the game named Cats makes this somewhat famous declaration at the beginning of Zero Wing: "How are you gentlemen. All your base are belong to us."
When you take all the numbers in the Google tweet and turn them into the corresponding letters of the alphabet, you get: "All your O are belong to us."
The world can rest now. Google's search page is now back to normal. And the Google techies are back to playing video games.
Source: CNET
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September 7th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
I had to laugh at the UFO kooks who thought it was Google "preparing the way" for full disclosure on UFO spacecraft and aliens. After following a couple of links I found myself here:
http://www.galacticcivilizations.org/speakers.html
where the full-bore woo is on display. I'm not sure whether to laugh or be sad. Either way there are some seriously deluded people out there.
But whether they planned it or not, it was a great marketing move on Google's part. They got so much free publicity from something that probably too one person 15 minutes to cook up.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
^ Regarding that link:
I detect the presence of fractured ceramic storage vessels.