When I was younger, I used to love ALL this stuff: Cryptozoology, UFOs, Nazi flying saucers, ghosts and all sorts. but as you get older, you do realize just how little real evidence there is for any of this and how a lot of stuff is hearsay or just repeated stuff or taken out of context. I still love a bit now and again but just don't take it seriously.
Even as a teenager though, I used to get annoyed by the occasional UFO program that would promise to answer the question of whether or not we are alone. After watching them basically repeat the same stories I had already read about in Library books. they would finish up with a DEFINITIVE answer of " we don't know" which I always felt was a cop out.
I must admit to attempting to spread bunk too though.
After a friend suggested we start our own country and simultaneously make some music we would call "Duckstep" (we had no idea what this would be but settled on it being Nazi Reggae but never made any) We decided that the moon you know as Europa is really the home of a flying aquatic creature called a Mallard which is the genetic ancestor of ducks on Earth and is called Mallardia. We laid claim to Mallardia, and its outer territories of Eris and Dysnomia.
So there is a Mallardia page on
Facebook, with a flag, and various other insignia and personnel, and I wrote a National Anthem too.
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https://www.facebook.com/1050256995....1448060584./1091851780855628/?type=3&theater The stripes on the flag obviously represent the green of the head, the yellow of the beak and the blue of the little flash on the wing. The ducks are self explanatory. There is a picture of Mallardia itself in the corner above the motto. The story of the motto is that we couldn't afford a Latin scholar, so we went down the local deli and asked our mate Kostas for some wise words. we didn't understand what he shouted at us so he wrote it down for us and we just put it on the flag. We don't actually know what it says. It's all Greek to us.
On the Mallardia page, that reply from the European Space Agency reference a Space Station is GENUINE.
On the page at least, we will maintain that we genuinely believe all this, but privately I will freely admit it's all bollocks.