Thursday, October 25, 2012

Climateer Headline du Jour: Nazi buddha from space might be fake Edition

Seriously.
That's the headline at The Guardian:

Nazi buddha from space might be fake

Statue said to have been looted by Nazis may well be from space but expert says it was probably made in the 20th century
Iron Man statue
The statue may well be made from a meteorite but experts say it is a 20th-century fake. 
Photograph: Elmar Buchner/PA
 
The narrative was, perhaps, just a little too good to be true. When news broke last month of the so-called "buddha from space" – a swastika-emblazoned statue, apparently 1,000 years old, that had been carved out of a meteorite and looted by a Nazi ethnologist – the world was enthralled....MORE
Roger that, let's go look at my authenticated Dali prints.