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unexplained phenomenon Google Doodle
For a few hours now Google Australia displays the „unexplained phenomenon“ Google Doodle but no one really knows what it means. If you click it, you get the unexplained phenomenon search results page. Germany also has it’s version of the Doodle called „Rätselhaftes Phänomen“ which pretty much translates to unexplained phenomenon. Google Russia also has it’s version called „необъяснимые явления“.
What is it about?
Surely the US will soon get the unexplained phenomenon Doodle and more and more people are about to get crazy about it’s meaning. Is it a gag? An experiment? A self-reference? Is there someone at Google laughing at us?
Enlighten us!!! Spooky, isn’t it? Call Mulder and Scully!
Feel free to post a comment if you can clarify the unexplained phenomenon.

Jumping on the Google ‘unexplained phenomenon’ bandwagon, I’ve decided to investigate the choice of Google selecting a UFO for their Google doodle, or Google logo. Theories have surfaced across the Internet and many people have taken to Twitter and Facebook to air their guess as to why Google has selected a UFO or unexplained phenomenon to display upon their website this weekend. I have proposed my own guess as to why Google is featuring the UFO in their logo, and I think it might be due to Star Trek’s 43th anniversary.

It was 43 years ago on September 8, 1966 that the original series of Star Trek aired on NBC. Could this be the reason for the UFO beaming up the letter ‘O’ in Google’s logo? The series has enjoyed an enormous cult following and has branched into a wide array of movies and other television series. Since the country is undergoing a 9.7% unemployment rate, it seems a wise choice to celebrate the anniversary of Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock rather than draw emphasis to the countless unemployed and underemployed workers in America.

Since the Google UFO logo depicts the beam, it seems that the doodle is showing Star Trek and depicting its infamous line, “Beam me up, Scotty.” Though Star Trek was a cult classic, the show only aired for three seasons, its final episode aired on June 3, 1969. Since Star Trek has evolved into numerous other film projects, the original series is often referred to as Star Trek: The Original Series, Classic Star Trek, and Star Trek: TOS.
In addition to the original series, other film and television projects include Star Trek: The Animated Series which aired from 1973-1974, Star Trek: The Next Generation which aired from 1987-1994, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine which aired from 1993-1999, Star Trek: Voyager which aired from 1995-2001, and Star Trek: Enterprise which aired from 2001-2005. Is Google’s logo the product of unexplained phenomenon and focusing on alien life in general? Maybe not, my bet is on Star Trek.
 

Released on June 12, 1987, Predator was #1 at the box office in its opening weekend. Its opening weekend gross of $12 million was second to Beverly Hills Cop II in 1987.[8] The film grossed nearly $60 million in the U.S. and $100 million at the worldwide box office.[9]

Initial critical reaction to the film was generally negative with critics focusing on the lack of story and excitement. Elvis Mitchell of The New York Times described it as "grisly and dull, with few surprises"[10] Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote that the film is "a rather pointless thing when you get down to it, has little of the provocative intelligence that was found in "Terminator." But at least it's self-propelling in terms of suspense and cheap thrills."[11] Dean Lamanna wrote in Cinefantastique that "the militarized monster movie tires under its own derivative weight."[12] Variety wrote that the film was a "slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects."[13] Michael Wilmington wrote a negative review focusing on the story, proclaiming it as "arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie."[14]

Among the positive reviews, Roger Ebert praised the film stating that, "it has good location photography and terrific special effects, and it supplies what it claims to supply: an effective action movie" but still noted that "the action moves so quickly that we overlook questions such as why would an alien species go to all the effort to send a creature to earth, just so that it could swing from the trees and skin American soldiers? Or, why would a creature so technologically advanced need to bother with hand-to-hand combat, when it could just zap Arnold with a ray gun".[15]

However, reaction to the film has warmed with time. In 2007, Entertainment Weekly named it the #22 greatest action movie of all time.[16] The magazine also ranked the film 14th on their "The Best Rock-'em, Sock-'em Movies of the Past 25 Years" list.[17] As of June of 2009, the film holds a 76% positive on Rotten Tomatoes. [18]