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Post by karlsie on Jul 16, 2009 4:55:25 GMT -5
How many remember that old classic sci-fi/ horror film, "The Blob"? A chunky, apparently innocent piece of plasma that fell from outer space. Little did the scientists know who were curiously studying it, that it would eat them. Absorb them into its blobby, featureless system, actually, growing larger and larger with each of its victims, until it was so huge, it ate an entire theater of movie watchers. The ending was a chiller. They freeze the blob and drop it off on the Arctic slope. Well, guess what, folk? The blob is thawing! A somewhat astonishing little item of yesterday's (yep, i'm burning the midnight oil) front page news, they discovered a huge glob of unidentifiable gooey matter in the Arctic Sea. The scientists have no idea what it is, but agree it's biological in its composition. They say it appears much like the fungi that accumulates in stagnant water, but they had never seen it in the open sea. I don't know about the rest of you, but i'm stocking up on dry ice, and when winter comes, i'm building an igloo.
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Post by Thomas Littlechief on Jul 16, 2009 8:48:45 GMT -5
I have been watching this "slick" with interest. It would seem a conundrum, wouldn't it?
It is said it is biological in origin, but there have no hypotheses about where it came from.
Perhaps, methinks, it is another phantom brought to the surface by the ever warming of the Arctic Seas. Envision, if you will, Millions of years of death and decomposition accumulating at the bottom of said seas. Biological waste and matter held at the depths by pressure and extreme cold. And just like its warmer counterparts, when a temperature rise of enough magnitude happens, the warmer waters allow waste material to rise to the surface.
It is a phenomenon seen in the Pacific along the migration routes of the whales. Warming waters are allowing the methane byproducts of decomposition at the bottom of the ocean to rise to the surface and become airborne, adding to greenhouse gasses emited on a yearly basis.
In this case it is the byproducts of whale decomposition in colder waters. Whales have the highest content of fat in their bone structure seen since prehistoric times. It is the only way for mammoth creatures to develop their great size. The bone structure must be stretched out to accommodate the demands of said behemoth size. Spaces in-between the expanded bone structure are filled with fat for structural re-enforcement.
Pressure and extreme cold hold waste at the bottom of the Seas, however when the temperature rises, all bets are off.
I would theorize that it is the byproduct of whale decomposition, and the "slick" is actually the pseudo decomposed bone matter of the whales arising from the depths.
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Post by The Late Mitchell Warren on Jul 16, 2009 11:21:06 GMT -5
I can see it now: The Blob: Based on a True Story
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Post by grainnerhuad on Jul 16, 2009 14:18:28 GMT -5
SWEET! I hope it plays out like a William Shatner era Star Trek episode where we all learn something about humanity.
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Post by karlsie on Jul 16, 2009 17:28:42 GMT -5
What if the Blob is actually Snowzilla in his summer state? Now that he has been awakened, he is out for revenge against the institute that would outlaw his existence. I see a headliner coming.
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Post by Thomas Littlechief on Jul 16, 2009 22:33:52 GMT -5
Or better yet, it is the slick arising from the people of Alaska washing their hands clean of Palin.
Maybe this byproduct should be regulated and recorded in the N.I.O.S.H. Emergency Responder Handbook. After all if it's Palin related it's probably toxic.
Also D.O.T. Hazard Plackard signage may be appropriate and should read: Health= 4, Flamability=2, Reactivity=4 and Specific Hazard=allergic to Ethics Violation complaints.
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Post by karlsie on Jul 17, 2009 1:04:24 GMT -5
Well now. We've got legislators covering up lobbyist bullshit who in turn cover up corporate bullshit, and federale's running around doing a little bullshit of their own. All this shit had to go somewhere, and what better place than to the bottom of the ocean? It was Palin's inflated opinion of herself that filled the bullshit with hot air and caused it to float. Now we have a bullshit bubble. Oooh. And the scientists handled it with their plastic gloves.
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Post by Thomas Littlechief on Jul 17, 2009 2:38:22 GMT -5
That's a lotta b/s. Whew, I think we should bring back zepplin's and fill them with Palin's hot air. Talk about a renewable resource, her hot air could propel prepetual motion. Gawd, I bet we could develop warp technology, like by September.
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