The Blob attacks Alaska

Mena

adn.com wrote:

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities
IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.

So what is it? Sarah Palin's credibility? Mary Harney's afternoon snack?

adn.com wrote:

Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.

Hunters from Wainwright first started noticing the stuff sometime probably early last week. It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters, according to Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department.

Brower and other borough officials, joined by the U.S. Coast Guard, flew out to Wainwright to investigate. The agencies found "globs" of the stuff floating miles offshore Friday and collected samples for testing.

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OldGoat

Godzilla spawn!

chin_grin

Literal viral marketing campaign?

biko

The Thing?

Basq

It's Michael Jackson... MICHAEL JACKSON..

antodeco

Its a whale's floater.

The Walsho

It amuses me seeing words like "gooey" and "globs" in an actual news report. You know they looked for better words but in the end just decided, fúck it, throw down gooey there.

Mena

The Walsho wrote: »

It amuses me seeing words like "gooey" and "globs" in an actual news report. You know they looked for better words but in the end just decided, fúck it, throw down gooey there.

You need to keep in mind that we're dealing with a populace that voluntarily voted Sarah Palin into the Governors seat.

Das Kitty

There's not a Cloverfield 2 on the way is there?

Actually looking at the pictures, it's just seaweed of some sort.

dysfunct

It looks like some sea algae...

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/07/14/22/344-4557317.21868.original.standalone.prod_affiliate.7.jpg

well its either that or its the partially decomposed hair of the from the ring girl...

http://www.acidemic.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/ue_samara_emerges2.jpg

Bill-e

I wonder what could have caused it? fap fap

Nerin

OldGoat wrote: »

Godzilla spawn!

[nerd]

Godzilla lays eggs (in both japanese and american versions), dinosaurs/lizards are egg laying creatures. It'd have be a giant mutant newt or frog.[nerd]

...

Oh god, run! Its an amphibian! Get out of the water doesn't work!

ShooterSF

Nerin wrote: »

[nerd]

Godzilla lays eggs (in both japanese and american versions), dinosaurs/lizards are egg laying creatures. It'd have be a giant mutant newt or frog.[nerd]

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Oh god, run! Its an amphibian! Get out of the water doesn't work!

[Nerd] Two nerd tags without an end nerd tag? That's just untidy and is going to cause errors. [/Nerd]

Nerin

ShooterSF wrote: »

[Nerd] Two nerd tags without an end nerd tag? That's just untidy and is going to cause errors. [/Nerd]

i'll be banned from the nerd chic forum.

Wait...its in alaska...wouldn't that climate be unsuitable for a giant newt?

Paddy Samurai

Mena wrote: »

So what is it? Sarah Palin's credibility? Mary Harney's afternoon snack?



Source

No its actually ....Mary Harney herself floating by on her giant dildoe inflatable hospital bed.
Hope there are'nt any Japanese whale ships in the area.

AnonoBoy

Thought this thread was going to be about our health minister on a junket to the US.

OldGoat

Nerin wrote: »

[nerd]

Godzilla lays eggs (in both japanese and american versions), dinosaurs/lizards are egg laying creatures. It'd have be a giant mutant newt or frog.[nerd]

...

Oh god, run! Its an amphibian! Get out of the water doesn't work!

[Geek] Spawn IS eggs.

/Zips anorak right up tight
[/geek]

chin_grin

Is [geek]>[nerd]?

Anyways.....

http://io9.com/5316581/floating-alaskan-bio+goo-video

OldGoat

chin_grin wrote: »

Is [geek]>[nerd]?

pfffft, noobie dork!

Nerin

OldGoat wrote: »

[Geek] Spawn IS eggs.

/Zips anorak right up tight
[/geek]

Spawn is large amounts of eggs laid in water by amphibians or fish, not giant dinosaurs or mutant lizards.

*snorts*

cjt156

Mena wrote: »

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities

Obviously Bull$hit; Slopes come from the other side of the Pacific Rim. Oh, and the acceptable form is Gooks, not Slopes.

dr.bollocko

cjt156 wrote: »

Obviously Bull$hit; Slopes come from the other side of the Pacific Rim. Oh, and the acceptable form is Gooks, not Slopes.

Banned.

Wertz

There was some lady oceanograher/reporter/writer on Pat Kenny's radio show about 6 weeks back talking about this stuff. It is officially known as a blob and have been klnown about for some time, but no-one's clear on what they are or what causes them, if they're natural or a result of human activity.

Given the amount of sh*t (literally) and the 1,000s of types of different chemicals, we pour into the oceans every day, I have to think that it's a build up of a soup of those chemicals. I could be wildly off the mark here, but logic dicates that if you put a load of crap into the sea that didn't originate from there and it has nowhere else to go it will eventually accumulate to a point where it is noticable...I think that's what's happeneing here.
If it's natural then why are seeing more of them by the year and why are those that are already known about continuing to grow?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-baffled-by-black-blob-threat-to-florida-sea-656272.html