Giant Mystery Blob in Alaska

[eunhye]

WTF

Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities: Arctic Alaska | adn.com
Giant Mystery Blob Moves Through Alaskan Waters - Science News | Science & Technology | Technology News - FOXNews.com
http://www.foxnews.com/images/545975...a_blob_sea.jpg

[Olo401]

They've confirmed it's not an oil slick.. that it's biological.

[Seraph]

I'll take Sarah Palin's 2012 running mate for $1000, Alex.

[Mizango]

I'll take Sarah Pallin's 2012 running mate for $1000, Alex.

lol

[Pikarya]

First the sewer stuff in Carolina, now this.

[Wintermute]

Stuff in the second pic looks like the shit that gets caught in your sink's U-Bend.

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/07/...ffiliate.7.jpg

Wonder if it's one of those worm clusters from the sewers from a few weeks back evolved.

[Rocl]

I'll take Sarah Pallin's 2012 running mate for $1000, Alex.

Three posts, record timing.

This is uh- interesting?

[Mizango]

First the sewer stuff in Carolina, now this.

Hey! You leave our trailer trash out of this.

[eunhye]

We have video!
YouTube - Blob Of Bio Goo Floating Around The Artic Sea

[Dimmauk]

Stuff in the second pic looks like the shit that gets caught in your sink's U-Bend.

http://media.adn.com/smedia/2009/07/...ffiliate.7.jpg

Wonder if it's one of those worm clusters from the sewers from a few weeks back evolved.

I'm waiting for this to come crawling out of that
http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/wp-...ingtwo_big.jpg

[Wintermute]

We have video!
YouTube - Blob Of Bio Goo Floating Around The Artic Sea

Nice comment

Cthulhu wiping the boogers from his eyes

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Stuff is probably from a sewage pipe that popped somewhere or some weird-ass bacterial colony.

[Khamsin]

Looks interesting, but I have a hunch it'll end up actually being multiple organisms or something.

[Dimmauk]

Looks interesting, but I have a hunch it'll end up actually being multiple organisms or something.

Jellies?

[Mizango]

Jellies?

No worse, Texans.

[Brill Weave]

Repent sinners! Your end is upon you!
The Blob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Mizango]

Repent sinners! Your end is upon you!
The Blob - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Oh lord here we go....


That movie was greatness.

[Dimmauk]

No worse, Texans.

Jellies Down Deep

From Goo to Zoo From the Science Bulletin.

When Bruce Robison was just starting out in marine biology, the study of deep-sea life usually involved dragging a net behind a ship. This method was efficient but selective, he recalls. Trawl samples gave scientists a skewed picture of what populates the oceanic water column: large numbers of fishes, crustaceans, and squids—the hard-bodied animals the nets could actually snare—plus “a handful of goo” that was tossed overboard.

But the goo is a crucial piece of the oceanic puzzle, Robison realizes now. A deep-sea ecologist at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Robison has pioneered the use of submersible robots to study jellyfish and other gelatinous invertebrates in their native deep-sea environment. Once you enter their home, these organisms, known collectively as jellies, are hard to miss. As it turns out, they are a dominant form of life in the ocean, far more abundant than previously realized. Robison estimates that as much as 40 percent of the biomass in the open ocean is bound up in the bodies of gelatinous invertebrates.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute’s Ventana rover
Kim Fulton-Bennett © MBARI 2004

“Jellies are a completely surprising component of the deep-sea food web,” Robison says. “Our present understanding of where jellies fit into the way the world works is far from complete. But it’s very clear they are a significant part of deep-ocean communities.”

“Jelly” is a generic term that marine scientists use to describe transparent, gelatinous invertebrates that float freely in the ocean. Jellies encompass more than just jellyfish, which themselves include about 200 species in the class Scyphozoa (phylum Cnidaria). Jellies come in all sizes, from the microscopic to dozens of feet long, and in uncounted forms. Their membership consists of species from widely divergent taxonomic groups, including true jellyfish from the phylum Cnidaria, comb jellies from the phylum Ctenophora, sea snails and sea slugs from the phylum Mollusca (most mollusks, such as the familiar, hard-bodied clams and mussels, are not jellies), and a small group from the phylum Chordata (which mostly includes non-gelatinous animals such as birds, reptiles, and people). Jellies are defined not by a single, shared evolutionary ancestry, but rather by the outward fact that they all have gelatinous bodies.

[Qalbert]

Venom

[Brill Weave]

It depends on which version the Blob you're referring to Miz.

[Mizango]

Creep show or gtfo.


Thanks for the ride lady! *shudders