Arctic Goo.... And It's ALIVE....

Boris (Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 19:54

Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.... It's thick and dark and "gooey" and is drifting for miles in the cold Arctic waters.... It's definitely, by the smell and the makeup of it, it's some sort of naturally occurring organic or otherwise marine organism....

http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html

WTF???? {bugeye}

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers...

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 20:05

ANCFlyer left the valve on the blackwater tank of his travel trailer open before he took off back down the Dalton. :))

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 20:45

Queso wrote:ANCFlyer left the valve on the blackwater tank of his travel trailer open before he took off back down the Dalton.

Don't know what it is, but it ain't oil and it IS Biologic . . .

Saw it on KTUU last night. And in the paper today.

LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!

Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 21:06

I'd buy one at the exotic pet store.

Really nasty looking thing, whatever it is.

JLAmber (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 16 Jul 09, 21:35

All the local fishermen have swine flu and have been blowing their noses overboard {yuck}

A million great ideas...

ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 16 Jul 09, 21:37

Bad curry at the whale party?

My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.

Cadet57 16 Jul 09, 21:49

JLAmber wrote:All the local fishermen have swine flu and have been blowing their noses overboard

You probably gave it to them

kmh1956 (Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 00:51

Is this how the Creature from the Black Lagoon or the Blob got started?

KFLLCFII 17 Jul 09, 04:15

ANCFlyer (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 14:49

It's a plant, so says the Alaska DEC. One huge frackin' plant. Algae. And a lot of it. {bugeye}

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/867160.html

"We got the results back from the lab today," said Ed Meggert of the Department of Environmental Conservation in Fairbanks. "It was marine algae."

Miles of the thick, dark gunk had been spotted floating between Barrow and Wainwright, prompting North Slope Borough officials and the Coast Guard to investigate last week. A sample was sent to a DEC lab in Palmer, where workers looked at it under a microscope and declared it some kind of simple plant -- an algae, Meggert said.

LET'S GO BRANDON!!!!

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 16:01

Wonderful. Now the pro-global warming crowd are going to go nuts pointing at this and saying that such a thing should not be able to grow in the naturally cold arctic waters. {sarcastic}

ANCFlyer wrote:One huge frackin' plant.

I wonder if that would make it qualify as the largest living organism on the planet. {scratch}

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 17 Jul 09, 16:07

I wonder if you can run a 737 on it?

My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.

Lucas (netAirspace ATC & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 16:16

Queso wrote:Wonderful. Now the pro-global warming crowd are going to go nuts pointing at this and saying that such a thing should not be able to grow in the naturally cold arctic waters.

ANCFlyer wrote:One huge frackin' plant.

I wonder if that would make it qualify as the largest living organism on the planet.

They tried! {crazy}

It's worth noting that Alaska Natives in the region reportedly hadn't seen anything like it before, he said.

But asked if the blob's surprise appearance could be connected to global warming, Whitledge hesitated to draw a link.

"The water's actually very cold this year compared to other years," he said.

Queso (netAirspace ATC Tower Chief & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 16:17

ShanwickOceanic wrote:I wonder if you can run a 737 on it?

Good idea, maybe it could be harvested. Then again, the government would probably put limits on how much of it one could take, and they'd want to sell a license to do so.

Slider... <sniff, sniff>... you stink.

CO777ER (Database Editor & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 16:19

Anyone familiar with red-tides?

ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 17 Jul 09, 16:30

CO777ER wrote:Anyone familiar with red-tides?

I saw a movie about one, had Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in it...

My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.

CO777ER (Database Editor & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 16:33

ShanwickOceanic wrote:
CO777ER wrote:Anyone familiar with red-tides?

I saw a movie about one, had Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in it...

That's Crimson Tide, the submarine movie. Good flick btw.

Red-tide has to do with algal blooms iirc.

ShanwickOceanic (netAirspace FAA) 17 Jul 09, 17:01

CO777ER wrote:That's Crimson Tide, the submarine movie. Good flick btw.

Funny how it's never "Brought to you by.... Tampax" though, isn't it? {duck}

And you're right, it's a very good movie.

CO777ER wrote:Red-tide has to do with algal blooms iirc.

Figured as much

My friend and I applied for airline jobs in Australia, but they didn't Qantas.

CO777ER (Database Editor & Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 17:17

ShanwickOceanic wrote:
CO777ER wrote:That's Crimson Tide, the submarine movie. Good flick btw.

Funny how it's never "Brought to you by.... Tampax" though, isn't it?

Rofl

AndesSMF (Founding Member) 17 Jul 09, 17:41

IIRC, there is algae that grows UNDER the ice. Then the krill eats the algae.

Einstein said two things were infinite; the universe, and stupidity. He wasn't sure about the first, but he was certain about the second.

Tom in NO 17 Jul 09, 18:26

CO777ER wrote:
ShanwickOceanic wrote:
CO777ER wrote:Anyone familiar with red-tides?

I saw a movie about one, had Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman in it...

Red-tide has to do with algal blooms iirc.

Red tides/algae blooms...the basic premise behind:

"Tramps like us"-Bruce Springsteen

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