Google and UFO's

[Vulcan59]

Google NZ latest image.

Clicking on the image leads you to a Google Search result on H.G Wells.

 

[combsbt]

Same here in the eastern US. It's his birthday today, September 21st... so i'm guessing this has all been leading up to that.

 

[adam7117]

Eep. Saw the logo above here in Oz as well. It turns out it's HG Wells's 143rd birthday. Well, they sure have stirred the pot with this one. Smacks of some kind of social engineering to me - and it probably worked.

HG Wells's Birthday: Google UFO Doodles Explained

You might have noticed an unexplained set of doodles on the Google homepage and a couple tweets from our official Twitter stream, @google, over the last two weeks. On September 5th, we posted a doodle with the abduction of our second 'o' and a coded tweet from its alien captors: 1.12.12 25.15.21.18 15 1.18.5 2.5.12.15.14.7 20.15 21.19, which translates into "All your O are belong to us" (a nod to the Japanese video game, Zero Wing).

We were delighted that people around the world played along with us and shared their theories for why we would have posted this "unexplained phenomenon."

Ten days later, the UFO returned. This time, it was to leave its mysterious mark on the fields.

While the link from the doodle to a search for "crop circles" didn't provide any more clues, we also tweeted the lat/long coordinates of Horsell Commons, the location of the first alien landing in H.G. Wells 1898 classic, The War of the Worlds. Some of you figured out what we were doing, but we weren't ready to reveal it all just yet.

Now, we're finally acknowledging the reason for the doodles with an official nod to Herbert George, who would be 143 years old today.

Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.

The invasion of the logo by alien crafts and pods makes our series complete, but you'll have to read the book to find out how Wells' story really ends.

_http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/mysterious-series-for-hg-wells.html​

 

[Erna]

I should maybe not post in this thread, but I thought I'd keep the Google imagery stuff in the same place.

Google's 11th birthday image today is rather reminiscent of the twin towers. I would have used birthday cakes, streamers and balloons instead, purely because one immediately thinks of 9/11 when one sees it...

 

[Vulcan59]

Here is the latest Google NZ image. It sure looks like something striking the earth.

 

[anart]

It looks like something striking the moon to me. Ah, it's commemorating the 'discovery of water' on the moon.

 

[Vulcan59]

Thanks Anart.

I did think about that but if it's the new found water on the moon "they" wanted to show, why not draw it as a hit from the south? Didn't the "missile" hit the south pole of the moon? Instead this picture shows a direct hit on the magnetic north pole (more or less). So kind of rouse my curiosity so to speak. :)