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TKE-Teg
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Well, kinda



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"It's big, it's black, it's gooey and it may be alive.

Giant blobs of thick, oily biological material are floating in the Arctic Ocean's Chukchi Sea north of the Bering Strait, reports the Anchorage Daily News.

"It's certainly biological," Coast Guard Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer told the newspaper. "It's definitely not an oil product of any kind. It has no characteristics of an oil, or a hazardous substance, for that matter."

No one in the North Slope towns of Barrow and Wainwright can recall ever seeing anything like it.

Jellyfish and sea birds are getting caught up in the sticky, stinky stuff, which according to one official "has hairy strands on it."

"It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism," added Hasenauer."


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533080,00.html?test=latestnews
http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html

[Edited on July 16, 2009 at 12:35 PM. Reason : k]

7/16/2009 12:35:00 PM

d7freestyler
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it has hair.

7/16/2009 12:36:01 PM

SaabTurbo
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That is nasty son. It grows hair?!

7/16/2009 12:36:04 PM

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"That is nasty son"

7/16/2009 12:39:30 PM

dweedle
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lulz

7/16/2009 12:39:44 PM

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7/16/2009 12:49:01 PM

Slave Famous
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Quote :
"MYSTERY

BLOB

PUBES"

7/16/2009 1:27:47 PM

LaserSoup
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This is the product of not dnl and lilylavender mating.

7/16/2009 1:52:00 PM

SaabTurbo
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Most likely.

This is just some kind of mutant goo that results from two mostly sterile individuals attempting to mate.

7/16/2009 1:54:24 PM

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I don't know what it is, but I know who to blame.

SARAH FUCKING PALIN.

You heard it here first.

7/16/2009 1:54:37 PM

SymeGuy69
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By the year 2012, it will have fully enveloped the Earth.

7/16/2009 1:56:25 PM

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7/16/2009 2:12:31 PM

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7/16/2009 2:21:34 PM

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does nobody in the coastguard own a microscope

7/16/2009 2:26:20 PM

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"I dont wanna wait.....for my Trapper Keeper be over..."

7/16/2009 3:14:36 PM

TKE-Teg
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^^check the links next time.

[Edited on July 16, 2009 at 3:23 PM. Reason : took a sample to the lab]

7/16/2009 3:22:55 PM

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which link? you posted two and a quote, thus nullifying any need for me to click a link.

either way, this is shit-news if they haven't even gotten lab results back

GROSS STUFF IN THE OCEAN? NO WAY

7/16/2009 3:31:41 PM

Stimwalt
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The real reason Palin resigned, Exhibit A.

7/16/2009 4:34:06 PM

TKE-Teg
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^^gross organic stuff.

We'll probably never know what it is. B/c they'll get the results back next week, and it'll be in the Alaskan paper but nobody else will carry it.

so sad

7/16/2009 4:35:29 PM

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7/16/2009 4:36:32 PM

Jader
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im guessing a cyano bacteria of some sort

7/16/2009 4:53:03 PM

Skack
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This has nothing to do with the Cameron Village Creature and everything to do with the Cameron Village Creature but don't tell anyone I told you this.

7/16/2009 5:05:50 PM

hooksaw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtcgI4BcIQ

7/16/2009 5:15:29 PM

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"MAD

WHALE

JIZZ"

7/16/2009 5:19:17 PM

dweedle
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throw a kitten into it, see if it engulfs it, phagocytosis style

7/16/2009 5:22:04 PM

d7freestyler
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mystery goo identified!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090718/us_time/08599191151700

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"A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called "the blob." It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water between Alaska's northwest coast and the Russian Far East. The goo was fibrous, hairy. When it touched floating ice, it looked almost black.

But what was it? An oil slick? Some sort of immense, amorphous organism adrift in some of the planet's most remote waters? Maybe a worrisome sign of global climate change? Or was it something insidious and, perhaps, even carnivorous like the man-eating jello from the old Steve McQueen movie that inspired the Alaskan phenomenon's nickname? (Read Richard Corliss' review of The Thing, a sci-fi film set in the Arctic.)

The hunters got word to the U.S. Coast Guard, which immediately sent two spill response experts to fly over the mass, which looked sort of rusty from the air. They also approached it by boat. The North Slope Borough, the local government for the vast and sparsely populated cap of Alaska, sent its own people out the main village of Barrow to have a look. They scooped up jars of the stuff for analysis in a state lab in Anchorage.

"We responded as if it were an oil product," says Coast Guard Petty Officer Terry Hasenauer. "It was described to us as an oil-like substance, thick and lingering below the surface of the water. Those characteristics can indicate heavy, degraded oil, maybe crude oil, or possibly an intermediate fuel oil." Meanwhile, the story spread over the internet like an oil-spill, giving lots of people a queasy feeling. (Check out a story about the coming battle for the resources of the Arctic.)

Test results released Thursday showed the blob wasn't oil, but a plant - a massive bloom of algae. While that may seem less dangerous, a lot of people are still uneasy. It's something the mostly Inupiat Eskimo residents along Alaska's northern coast say they could never remember seeing before. (See pictures of the Arctic.)

Algal blooms are a common and often menacing event along many U.S. coastlines. Some strains are toxic and can close beaches and poison seafood, posing a hazard to consumers. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration maintains a forecasting system for the Gulf of Mexico to warn of harmful Florida blooms. On Thursday, on the other side of the continent, U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe, a Maine Republican, urged NOAA to direct at least $500,000 to assess a disastrous red tide - a form of algal bloom. "The state of Maine is currently besieged by the most virulent red tide event ever recorded in the region," Snowe wrote. "As a result of this outbreak, virtually the entire coast of our state has been closed to the harvest of clams, mussels, ocean quahogs, and other shellfish."

While Alaskans may find the algal blob unusual if not frightening, scientists say that algal blooms are nothing new in Arctic Ocean waters, though the blob itself might be a little weird. Brenda Konar, a marine biology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said algal outbreaks can and do occur even in icy Arctic waters. It just takes the right combination of nutrients, light and water temperature, she said. "Algae blooms," she says. "It's sort of like a swimming pool that hasn't been cleaned in a while." The blob, Konar said, is a microalgae made up of "billions and billions of individuals." "We've observed large blooms in the past off Barrow although none of them at all like this," Barry Sherr, an Oregon State University professor of oceanography, said in an e-mail. "The fact that the locals say they've never seen anything like it suggests that it might represent some exotic species which has drifted into the region, perhaps as a result of global change. For the moment that's just a guess."

So far in Alaska, nothing suggests the Chukchi Sea blob is toxic, although the Coast Guard's Hasenauer said toxicity tests were planned. In any case, virtually no commercial seafood production comes from the waters along Alaska's northern coast, but residents do fish, hunt whales and harvest other animals as part of a traditional subsistence lifestyle. In the meantime, the blob for the most part is staying away from the shoreline and slowly drifting farther and farther away. "

7/18/2009 7:42:36 PM

BobbyDigital
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turn that shit into a biofuel.

because being green is trendy and thus it should be profitable.

7/18/2009 9:31:48 PM

aikimann
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Dark Water used to be the shit growing up

7/18/2009 9:39:24 PM

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i took a dump of the cruise ship, mystery solved

7/18/2009 9:41:58 PM

Nerdchick
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OH SHITTTTTT!!! the story is trueeeee

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raft_(short_story)

7/19/2009 12:47:20 AM

Optimum
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Didn't read the thread, but I guess no one made a Sarah Palin joke yet.

7/19/2009 12:49:44 AM

hooksaw
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^^ The Blob storyline is much closer--and there's this. . .

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"The film closes with a scene of a military plane dropping the Blob into an Arctic landscape."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCtcgI4BcIQ

Groove to it.

[Edited on July 19, 2009 at 12:58 AM. Reason : ^ Yeah, because we really need one more of those. ]

7/19/2009 12:57:12 AM

TroopofEchos
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30 DAYS OF BLOB IN BARROW

7/19/2009 1:00:18 AM

cyrion
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NOTHING CAN STOP...THE SMOOOOOOOOZE

7/19/2009 1:04:52 AM

bcsawyer
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Where is the idiot Al Gore in all of this?

7/19/2009 1:08:48 AM

not dnl
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where is that stupid cunt sarah palin in all this. shes still the governor until like the 26th

7/19/2009 1:09:24 AM

hooksaw
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^ I don't think you should be calling anyone stupid right now.

7/19/2009 1:11:22 AM

not dnl
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notice he didn't touch palin

7/19/2009 1:11:49 AM

hooksaw
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In case you haven't heard, Palin's on the way out. In the meantime, how's that hand of yours that you fucked up. . .um. . .yourself? And your car that you crashed?

Just wondering.

7/19/2009 1:16:59 AM

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they are fine. i like elected officials that don't even finish one term. oh wait no i don't. i'd love to hear her opinion.

7/19/2009 1:19:49 AM

joe_schmoe
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um, yeah, Sarah Palin is a fucking Rhodes Scholar compared to your dumb ass. i'd lay low for a while, if i were you. you make stupid people look good.




[Edited on July 19, 2009 at 1:26 AM. Reason : ]

7/19/2009 1:25:43 AM

not dnl
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if you were me you'd probably kill yourself you creepy motherfucker

7/19/2009 1:28:34 AM

hooksaw
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^^ LOL!!!1

7/19/2009 1:30:58 AM

joe_schmoe
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holy shit. i got called "creepy" by the downy kid who tries to score sympathy vag by getting snot-slinging drunk and crying about how his life is rough.

LOL, i dont even what to make of that.

7/19/2009 2:22:23 AM

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in regards to the post above:

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"LOL, i dont even what to make of that."

7/19/2009 2:23:05 AM

joe_schmoe
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"DNL: if you were me you'd probably kill yourself you creepy motherfucker"


nah, don't need to, you've got it covered.

I just wish you would go ahead and do it quickly, like with a gun, or some car exhaust through a garden hose .

because this long, drawn-out, pathetic way you're going about it is sloppy, and you're likely to take out some random family of four on the Beltline before you finish.

7/19/2009 2:29:31 AM

Erfdawg
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I never realized there were so many asians in Alaska.

7/19/2009 6:17:44 AM

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7/19/2009 9:04:01 AM

Optimum
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i can see russia from not dnl's house

7/19/2009 12:54:28 PM

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