Huge blob of Arctic goo floats past Slope communities

Anchorage daily news ^ | 07/14/09 | DON HUNTER dhunter@adn.com

[Mmogamer]

IT'S NOT OIL: No one in the area can recall seeing anything like it before.

[Mmogamer]

Odd stuff

[Catholic Canadian]

Michael Moore had another huge crap?

[irishtenor]

Whale snot.

[Vigilanteman]

Maybe this was all the slime the enemedia tried to dig up on Sarah Palin.

[Snickering Hound]

Al Gore hair gel.

[the long march]

Floatsam. Looked like hair and other detris dumped by some passenger liner.

[massgopguy]

It’s THE BLOB!

[redpoll]

Those of us in Alaska recognize this stuff. It’s the accumulation of smears and scandal published in the Daily News which was allowed to float out to sea so as not to stink up Cook Inlet.

[null and void]

Steve McQueen. First movie. The Blob. Ending. The blob was frozen in place by turning up the air-conditioning in the theater. Last scene, a crated up blob is being air dropped onto arctic ice.

Fast forward 51 years...

[wetickel]

Unacceptably racist headline . . . .

[Young Werther]

In the last scene of this epic movie, the Blob is parachuted onto the Arctic icecap where it would remain frozen. Now, with Gorebull Warming the blob is loose again!

[null and void]

Good catch.

[Travis T. OJustice]

LMAO!

[fso301]

Probably raw sewage from Canada

[silverleaf]

15 miles of jetsam from a passenger liner in the Arctic Sea?
And ocean biologists never saw passenger liner crap before?

The scum of the earth- no longer a figure of speech.

[Vaquero]

“Vy am I dripping viz goo?”

[OldDeckHand]

I'm no marine biologist, but the up-close picture sure looks like string algae to me - a scuba diver of 35 years.

Much like the great lakes, especially Erie, will experience tremendous and expansive algae blooms near the Ohio shore, I'd bet this is just a bloom of string algae in the North Pacific.

[the long march]

Remnants of conservative dems thrown overboard by The one?

[Bulwinkle]

a closeup pic of goo in a bucket:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/07/16/experts-baffled-by-unidentified-black-goo-floating-in-arctic-ocean/

[mbynack]

Steve McQueen. First movie. The Blob. Ending. The blob was frozen in place by turning up the air-conditioning in the theater. Last scene, a crated up blob is being air dropped onto arctic ice.

Blame global warming.

[Parmy]

Decomposed lemmings.

[Birdsbane]

That stuff looks like the floating carnivorous blob from one of the stories from Creepshow 2.

[ßuddaßudd]

beau coup

[OldDeckHand]

"a closeup pic of goo in a bucket:"

That picture definitely looks like string algae to me. It's usually a reddish, but it can certainly look black, especially if it's dead or dying.

[Conan the Librarian]

More like the Stephen King short story about the goo in the lake.

Or maybe Godzilla just pasted by.

[Signalman]

That stuff looks like the floating carnivorous blob from one of the stories from Creepshow 2.

Yeah the one where the kids get stranded on the raft in the middle of the lake surrounded by this stuff. That was good. Very creative on the part of the writers.

[WOBBLY BOB]

get off my lawn

[RandallFlagg]

“Beware of the blob it creeps, and leaps, and glides and slides across the floor, right through the door....”

[Danae]

Crab food?

[BBell]

My thoughts too

[Don W]

[Swede Girl]

Al Gore looks very strange...not at all like he looked as VP. I think he has had plastic surgery of some kind.

[null and void]

Political death warmed over.