Thursday, July 16, 2009

A Giant Blob is Threatening Alaska!





"Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea." (I stole that line 'cause it was just too awesome to pass up.)

Seems a thick, gooey blob that's 15 MILES LONG is currently floating off the coast of Alaska. No one has been able to figure out what the blob is, but scientists have made one startling discovery . . . IT'S ALIVE. Oh yeah, and it smells terrible.

For more information and a really nasty photo, be sure to check out this article.

21 comments:

~chanel~ said...

it's the end of the world!!!!

UU said...

Ewwww. I have got to start being prepared after cute posts.
They say it's ALIVE?!?!

Peacey said...

ALIVE?! How is that even possible? And why does it have to be Alaska? I luffle Alaska...

Anyways, this is sinisterly like something in a very disturbing and very good book I read ... The Tomorrow Code, by Brian Falkner.

Grace said...

That's brilliant!
I mean, just really awesome!
When you get the close up photo, you can tell that it's algae, but from afar, It's just a 12 mile long movie cliché!

Kitty said...

Sounds like that blob thingy in Digimon XD I WANNA GO SEE IT!! Anyone wanna go with me? 8D

Lioness said...

IT'S ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

brave chickens said...

A blob that's alive? Maybe something similar to Maximum Ride 5?

Peacey said...

I'm in Kitty! Save Alaska! (I think we were also the two headed for the New York sewers to rid them of water boogers... You guys owe us.)

Meredith said...

They said it wasn't oil, but I wonder if it could be used for a fuel source. Hmmm . . .

Anonymous said...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090718/us_time/08599191151700
it's solved!

Reel Dancer said...

IT'S A MUTANT FORM OF ALGAE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

V said...

Yeah, it's 'filamentous' algae.
http://www.adn.com/189/story/867160.html

Patsee said...

Filamentous is a fun word.

Cupcakedoll said...

(singing)
Beware of the blob it
leaps and creeps
and slides and glides across
the floor and through the door
a blotch
a splotch
be careful of the blob!
(/singing)

MadsTheWeird said...

mabe the reason it is not confined to lakes iscuse of global warming;)


even if is my doom, it is AWESOME!!!!!!

Hazel said...

Ooops...I guess I should have listened when my biochemistry teacher said not to always tip my experiments down the sink.
Kitty: Can I come?

EQ said...

There is a HUGE mistake in the follow up article, http://www.adn.com/189/story/867160.html

ALGAE IS NOT A PLANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's a protazoan, in the same kingdom as amoebas and all single-celled organisms that are Not Bacteria or Archaebacteria.

Algae blooms are very poisonous. If you eat fish, shellfish, or pretty much anything from the water where the algae bloom is, you will probably die. But the blooms I've read about are red, brown, yellow, ect...especially red, which in some ancient civilization (I forget which) was called "the sea of blood". Guess why...

--EQ

~chanel~ said...

it does kinda sound like those things from maximum ride 5, only instead of freaky yet misunderstood mutant whales, this is a giant blob of something. like the whales in max 5, this thing could be the nasty mixture of pollution and toxic waste and all the other ineluctable problems that are destroying our ozone layer. this blob could be mother nature's way of getting revenge on the human race!





...or it's just algae.

Forrester said...

u were right Lioness. IT'S ALIIVE!!!!!!

Forrester said...

Peacey & Kitty: Can I come too?

Alice Cullen said...

COINCIDENCE ALERT: OMG weird i am watching THE BLOB right now!