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Post by junknira on Jul 18, 2009 18:19:31 GMT -5
news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090718/us_time/08599191151700A 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. .... .....Test results released Thursday showed the blob wasn't oil, but a plant - a massive bloom of algae more in article... hmmmm algae? or chemtrail cover up?
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Post by crystalriver on Jul 18, 2009 20:11:42 GMT -5
Hey Junknira--I posted close to the same thing as well--included thoughts on Bucky balls.
I did take your post over about the CDC I believe to Rumormill, it's been awhile back--I appreciate your work!
CR
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Post by sunnydaze on Jul 22, 2009 11:04:10 GMT -5
From Discover blog:
Update: Previously Unidentified Black Blob ID’ed
A few days ago, we wrote about a mysterious black blob floating off of Alaska’s coast. At that point, experts hadn’t been able to identify what the goo was made of.
New information, however, brings an end to the speculation: Authorities say it’s a gigantic algae bloom, as some commenters to DISCOVER’s previous post hypothesized. TIME reports:
Algal outbreaks can and do occur even in icy Arctic waters. It just takes the right combination of nutrients, light and water temperature, says [Brenda Konar, a marine biology professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks]. “Algae blooms,” she says. “It’s sort of like a swimming pool that hasn’t been cleaned in a while.” The blob, Konar says, 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.”
The blob isn’t toxic–just gross. No word from the Venter/ExxonMobil camp on whether they intend to scoop up the blob for research purposes.
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Post by shubot on Jul 23, 2009 11:44:04 GMT -5
Thanks for the update sunny-D
I guess they are just going to let it keep floating along and a growing bigger?
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Post by sunnydaze on Jul 23, 2009 12:21:07 GMT -5
I guess - till it eats up the planet!
sunnydaze
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Post by crystalriver on Jul 23, 2009 13:31:41 GMT -5
Right on Target Sunnydaze,
CR
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Post by shubot on Jul 24, 2009 12:24:14 GMT -5
Are you guys serious?
Maybe putting salt on it should kill it. What do you think?
We have killed a number of large fungus type growths in our back yard with salt because nothing else would work.
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Post by awake on Jul 24, 2009 15:22:23 GMT -5
I think if it were "slug" like in anyway i would have a go pouring some salt on the thing. Slugs die in the presence of salt. Maybe if we knew how salt kills sulgs we might know why it seems to affect morgellons.. I know that morgellons seems to have a reaction to salt, but it don't kill it like it does true slugs. Here's a website on why salt reactions with slugs and kills them... It has something to do with the process of osmosis...I wonder if this could apply to this "blob" or morgellons. www.slugoff.co.uk/slug-facts/salt.htmlAwake
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Post by crystalriver on Jul 25, 2009 9:06:03 GMT -5
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Post by shubot on Jul 26, 2009 1:02:42 GMT -5
Hi, CR and Awake Thanks for the links.....poor little worm looked so scared..
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