“It’s certainly biological. It’s definitely not an oil product of any kind.”
Yikes. That’s not want you want to hear when you encounter a 12-mile long blob of goo floating through the Arctic waters. The mysterious organism is making its way through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow in Northern Alaska.
“It’s definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it’s some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism,” said Petty Officer 1st Class Terry Hasenauer of the Coast Guard.
It gets weirder: ”From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it’s kind of blackish stuff … (and) has hairy strands on it.” WTF??
Perhaps X-Files fans will remember Purity, more commonly referred to as black oil, and called “the black cancer” by the Russians. It was an alien virus that thrived underground and was capable of entering humans and assuming control of their bodies…
So far the blob has not come ashore. Or taken over the Coast Guard.
More at Achorage Daily News
Ok Nar, that is down right scary. Eeww, are you sure this isn’t a nefarious plot of yours? buwahahahahahahah
Holy crap this is scary. Maybe it’s an alien from the deep?
Steve T: I had nothing to do with this! I only like mysterious killer blobs in a science fiction kind of way…
Jeff: If so, Jim Cameron never found it!
Nar, when you do find out what that stuff is, let us know. Here on the east coast we don’t always get dependable west coast news.
- What is it Number One? What are you seeing?
- Trouble.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO0DekbBF2c
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1911517,00.html?xid=newsletter-weekly Nar it’s the answer!
Algae? That’s it!? …Phew, that was a close one.
Thanks for the link, Steve.