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What are the odds? Halo driftwood


We have a few theories about the above images. Theory one: the Halo universe really exists, and the events in the games occurred eons in the past. A Brute Shot somehow managed to escape decay by being embedded in a tree and thus encased in petrified wood. Theory two (slightly more plausible than theory one): the uppermost image is a piece of driftwood miraculously worn down to the near exact shape of a Brute Shot. Perhaps the most amazing thing of all, this particular piece of driftwood just happened to be found by someone who recognized what it looked like. We ask you, what are the odds?

Anyone else care to share some 360 related found art with us?

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1. The odds are probably.....2349467658349394 to 1.

Posted at 1:14PM on Jan 16th 2007 by TM22

2. Wood Shot!!!

Posted at 1:25PM on Jan 16th 2007 by Shadow

3. Wow ... I just got done surfing some truly useless posts at the 'Stiq to come here and see this beauty. Now usually I'd rattle on like a bonehead about the differences between legitimate and useless postings, but this kinda sells itself.

Posted at 1:32PM on Jan 16th 2007 by refinedsugar

4. Halo was a documentary, and the events were shot in real time.

Posted at 1:41PM on Jan 16th 2007 by dan s.

5. Obviously another reason to sue "Apple, Inc." for the iPhone.

Posted at 2:45PM on Jan 16th 2007 by Blaine

6. Slow news week, huh?

Posted at 4:42PM on Jan 16th 2007 by Diablo

7. I would have said the head of a duck billed dinosaur. But to each their own, i guess

Posted at 5:26AM on Jan 17th 2007 by TC

8. or a camel!

Posted at 5:29AM on Jan 17th 2007 by TC

9. usually I think people are stupid when they criticize the post here, but this is the dumbest peice of information, or lack of that I have ever read.

Posted at 12:45PM on Jan 17th 2007 by Shamma Banks Jr.

10. "this is the dumbest peice of information, or lack of that I have ever read."

Have you ever read The Fountainhead?

Posted at 1:08PM on Jan 17th 2007 by Richard Mitchell

11. truly a work of natural art. still, not sure if this deserved a news spot though

Posted at 9:20AM on Jan 21st 2007 by Taylor Barefoot

12. "truly a work of natural art. still, not sure if this deserved a news spot though"

Dude Halo is the highest grossing video game in history, people actually slept outside for days for this game. Do you know how many hits AOL must've gotten for posting this lol. Not saying its amazing but from a business P.O.V. I would've put it in my News Coloumn too =D

Posted at 10:03AM on Jan 21st 2007 by AJ Mitchell

13. That's cool, but not really a big deal. When you compare how many times it didn't happen to how many times it did... Come on, it was bound to happen sooner or later. That 1 on the minority side of the statistic has to pop up at some time.

Posted at 10:31AM on Jan 21st 2007 by My name

14. i believe that the haloverse actually existed but not NEARLY as hi-tech as it was made out to be. i believe that halo was fire and cavemen(humans) and animals(covenant) were fighting over it. master cheif was just a more evolved caveman thats why he was more efficiant and all of they're weapons were wood and small rocks

Posted at 10:47AM on Jan 21st 2007 by halologist

15. "this is the dumbest peice of information, or lack of that I have ever read."

Have you ever read the bible?

Posted at 10:53AM on Jan 21st 2007 by Jacob Wright

16. ok, now im not a super halo fan but i love the game. i have played it many times before and comparing the wood to the brute shot, they really do lok almost the same. that us not something that somebody can just carve. its too unique. that is a real piece of wood that looks like a brute shot. i am somewhat of a sceptic, so i really dont believe that it is a preserved brute shot. i really dont even believe that there is actually a halo universe because if there was, why havent any of they spartans or covenants reached earth yet? if we have enogh technology to learn about them, and know so much about them that we can incorperate them into a game, then wh cant we reach them? or even better, sice their technology is so much greater than ours, why havent they reached us? all this is, is just a hunk of wood that by chance was eroded into the shape of a brute shot. i am not saying that here isn't a possibility that there is a halo universe and that the wood is actually a preserved brute shot, but it is just extremel unlikely.

Posted at 1:40PM on Jan 21st 2007 by R. Sklar

17. "Have you ever read the bible?"

I may not believe what they believe but seriously, stop insulting a religion just because you don't believe it. Be thankful Christians aren't like Islamics. In an Islamic country, if they were able to find you, they'd have a legal right to kill you for saying that about the Koran.

Posted at 2:07PM on Jan 21st 2007 by Sam

18. Maybe we could use carbon dating to see how old it actually is? The thing is that if parallel universes are real then the Halo universe could be real but in a different universe. Its like saying what if the nazis won the world wars. That would suck to live in that universe.....lol The thing is all of this could be a hoax or it could be true so we will never no if there was a halo universe in the past. Maybe they destroyed the dinasoars and disguised the bomb as an asteroid?!!!!!!!!!!!!! They probably wanted to destroy any evidence showing that they existed, but failed. Can we actually fire the weopon?

Posted at 3:16PM on Jan 21st 2007 by Saad

19. "Be thankful Christians aren't like Islamics...they'd have a legal right to kill you for saying that about the Koran."

Man Shut up, PPl that Believe in Islam are MUSLIMS,and I laugh at what you wrote, you read or hear about 1 such case and think that everybody like that is over there. Hey guess what, I heard about a guy having sex with a horse. Now do I think everyone likes to give a bone to goats? No.
BTW This isn't news, pretty slow news day...

Posted at 3:38PM on Jan 21st 2007 by l�ck

20. You guys are completely moronic, it shouldnt even be a question whether a "Halo" universe existed or does exist. The game is great, love playing it, but thats what it is, a fictional game that some producer thought up. Now you can go ahead and fantasize about a halo universe but i think we all know that the log is coinidence and the whole theory is just fun to think about but total BS in reality. I found a piece of drift wood that looked exactly like and alligator head by i didnt go to the news and say it was a preserved prehistoric alligator cause things preserve them shapes in wood, not as wood...Just to clerify things...

Posted at 4:03PM on Jan 21st 2007 by w/e

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