Huge Unidentified Organic Blob Floating Around Alaska 424
Z80xxc! writes "The Anchorage Daily News reports that a 15 mile-long blob of unknown, 'gooey,' probably organic material is floating past communities on Alaska's North Slope. The US Coast Guard sent pollution experts to investigate, who determined that it was not an oil spill or other type of pollution, but were unable to determine what it is. A sample is currently being analyzed by experts in Anchorage, while the blob is following the current northwards."
Algal Bloom (Score:5, Informative)
CTHULU finally watched GamerZ (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Reading is FUNdamental! (Score:3, Informative)
Except that it is moving with the current. It probably moved 3 miles in the time it took him to go 15.
Do algal blooms eat geese???? (Score:3, Informative)
"It's pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it," Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose -- just bones and feathers -- to the borough's wildlife department.
Re:Looks like whale blood to me (Score:3, Informative)
Really? [google.com]
Then again, I'm from Alaska. Maybe there are a bunch of gray, gooey, congealed whales up here, and I've never noticed.
Re:Do algal blooms eat geese???? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Creepshow 2, anyone? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Looks like whale blood to me (Score:4, Informative)
Then again, I'm in Philadelphia and have no idea what whale blood looks like
Now you know. [current.com]
Re:Do algal blooms eat geese???? (Score:3, Informative)
Occasionaly you can find seaweed patches with dead bird remains in them. Does that mean the seaweed is eating the birds? no.
Re:Whale sneezed (Score:3, Informative)
Re:It's the smog monster! (Score:1, Informative)
The trick would be to move Tokyo Tower. Convince the Japanese government to donate it to the US, as long as they put it up in DC. Everyone knows Tokyo Tower is the weirdness magnet.
I don't remember this exactly, but ... (Score:5, Informative)
Around 10-15 years ago, the same thing happened off the Icelandic Westfjords, which is the north-west part of Iceland. At first, it was believed to be a spill of the waste matter from fish oil production, but then scientists determined it was caused by a mass death of some species of plankton, which are really small, almost microscopic crustaceans or similar. This particular species was quite oily and died off en masse because of increased sea temperatures or some such.
As I said, I can't remember any useful details, but that's more or less what happened back then, sometime near the end of last century off the coast of North-West Iceland.