jetdawgg
07-18-09, 12:41 PM
http://www.adn.com/arctic-alaska/v-gallery/story/864687.html?/1521/gallery/864688-a864686-t3.html
DON'T GOTO SLEEP!!!!
attack of the body snatchers!
DocGreek
07-18-09, 01:38 PM
:evilgrin:.....SO WHAT????....Are you becoming a "fear monger/terrorist"??? And I thought only the National Media did that sort of crap!!!
Kegler300
07-18-09, 02:02 PM
That's America's wealth floating away...
:evilgrin:.....SO WHAT????....Are you becoming a "fear monger/terrorist"??? And I thought only the National Media did that sort of crap!!!
look at the stuff doc... it looks like the tenticles from the body snatchers.... It's probably some bio material that was frozen a long time ago and has melted out from some NK nuclear bomb in an effort to cause the effects from "the day after tomorrow" ... 'cause everything kim jong il sees on the news box is true... dennis quad wouldn't lie!!!
so um... let's keep an eye out for what this really is.
if people start getting along with each other all of a sudden then start buying stock in coffee!!!
Warbyrd13
07-18-09, 02:35 PM
look at the stuff doc... it looks like the tenticles from the body snatchers.... It's probably some bio material that was frozen a long time ago and has melted out from some NK nuclear bomb in an effort to cause the effects from "the day after tomorrow" ... 'cause everything kim jong il sees on the news box is true... dennis quad wouldn't lie!!!
so um... let's keep an eye out for what this really is.
if people start getting along with each other all of a sudden then start buying stock in coffee!!!
This post and thread have cracked me up. Who knows maybe this is the proof scientist need to answer why we are here.
Alisium
07-18-09, 03:13 PM
look at the stuff doc... it looks like the tenticles from the body snatchers.... It's probably some bio material that was frozen a long time ago and has melted out from some NK nuclear bomb in an effort to cause the effects from "the day after tomorrow" ... 'cause everything kim jong il sees on the news box is true... dennis quad wouldn't lie!!!
so um... let's keep an eye out for what this really is.
if people start getting along with each other all of a sudden then start buying stock in coffee!!!
More like The Blob.
I wonder how what you'd get if you threw in a baby pool and to naked chicks.
Rocky C
07-18-09, 03:16 PM
<CITE class=vcard>By WESLEY LOY / ANCHORAGE Wesley Loy / Anchorage </CITE>– <ABBR class=recenttimedate title=2009-07-18T12:30:00-0700>41 mins ago</ABBR>
<!-- end .byline -->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.) (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599191151700/32752455/SIG=12su94e0v/*http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1866039_1866042_1865891,00.html)
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.) (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599191151700/32752455/SIG=11vm9h4ih/*http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1663445,00.html)
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.) (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/time/us_time/storytext/08599191151700/32752455/SIG=11v76iqat/*http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1663797,00.html)
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.
so, it's NOT trying to enslave mankind... or eat us....
NoRemorse
07-18-09, 07:07 PM
so, it's NOT trying to enslave mankind... or eat us....
Yet.. there's still time for it to evolve.
Thanks for reminding me of The Thing. Really good movie. I believe they made a video game a few years ago based on it that got good reviews.
what was that movie about the white "stuff" that takes you over from the inside??
I remember it had a commercial in the movie (they were selling it as a snack in the movie in order to spread it to everyone) where the old lady said she wanted more "stuff"....
can anyone help me out here?