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Giant and Mysterious Blob of Goo Floating Off Alaska Coast
News Type: Event — Seeded on Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:05 AM EDT
Article Source: adn.com: Alaskaadvertisement
Something big and strange is floating through the Chukchi Sea between Wainwright and Barrow.
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{"commentId":8226176,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
It's probably Sarah Palin's political career.
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- 20 votes
#1 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:30 AM EDT{"commentId":8232837,"authorDomain":"steelerdog"}
Wow, didn't see that one coming.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8233036,"authorDomain":"dkaz"}
Was Michael Jackson buried at sea? Could this be a byproduct from the chemicals he induced and the plastics he had put in his face, throughout his 50 years, resurfacing?
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- 7 votes
{"commentId":8233559,"authorDomain":"sevenwishes35"}
And Sarah can see it from her house!!!
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8234537,"authorDomain":"roybatty"}
Maybe it's Putin's head.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8237303,"authorDomain":"JoulesBeef"}
<q>"It's certainly biological. It's definitely not an oil product of any kind."</q>
<br>
i think they doth protest a bit quickly.
Who said anything about oil.. it wasnt even on my mind.. but now it is
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8240110,"authorDomain":"susibv"}
They drilled into Sarah Palin's brain looking for alternative intelligence sources and this is what came out.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8241218,"authorDomain":"proteus"}
:-) :-) :-) :-) :-) :-) Ya killing me! You have missed your true calling. You'd give Tina Fey a run for her money. The true comedy greats such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Red Skelton; etc....are bowing at your feet. I salute you as well. :-)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8244390,"authorDomain":"arad"}
i think they doth protest a bit quickly.
Oil was the first thing I thought of. And after the infamous Exxon Valdez spill, hearing 'blob in the water off the coast of Alaska,' thinking oil isn't much of a stretch...
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8244862,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}
The true comedy greats such as Lucille Ball, Carol Burnett, Red Skelton; etc....are bowing at your feet
Let's not get carried away lol
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8245543,"authorDomain":"susibv"}
Proteus.....who were you speaking to/about?
LOL
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8256326,"authorDomain":"proteus"}
Why, You! of course, GoldenGate! :-)
ruthlessmoose, I finally came back to my senses.......NOT! LMAO as well. :-)
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8227812,"authorDomain":"jimmyjamm93442"}
Can't possible be, that's sinking fast... this stuff is floatin..
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- 13 votes
#2 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 12:31 PM EDT{"commentId":8230509,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
Touche sir. Touche.
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- 10 votes
{"commentId":8232301,"authorDomain":"spectator99"}
It could be a bio alternative to fossil fuels then Palin's oil and coal shill job would come to a fast end.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8232660,"authorDomain":"blll"}
Very small rocks?
{"commentId":8232660,"threadId":"627196","contentId":"3027922","authorDomain":"blll"}
- 5 votes
{"commentId":8233868,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
Churches! Churches!
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8234023,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}
lead!
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8244887,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}
apples!
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8229418,"authorDomain":"alkimija"}
Disgusting. A blob of death.
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- 3 votes
#3 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 1:23 PM EDT{"commentId":8232350,"authorDomain":"sgsteitler"}
Put that right up there with the flying cone of death UFO, recently reported on. Only this is much more serious on an environmental level.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8232677,"authorDomain":"blll"}
Hopefully it turns out to be an organism capable of digesting plastics, styrofoam and nuclear waste. Then all of our problems are solved.
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":8233888,"authorDomain":"killfile"}
And excreting refined gasoline?
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":8236508,"authorDomain":"take2la"}
Hopefully it turns out to be an organism capable of digesting plastics, styrofoam and nuclear waste.
It could be the remnants of those substances broken down into their petroleum bases, cause if you look at it it sure looks petroleum-y from the way its separating & pearling as it floats. Plus that would answer the half "digested" bird carcass.
I mean, I know they say it ISN'T oil or petroleum but it sure looks like it in the pic.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8247472,"authorDomain":"CarlZup"}
A disgusting blob of death?
I hear anything goes good on a Ritz cracker.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8231163,"authorDomain":"acidreflux"}
Hmmm. A ball of slime and dead giant squid floating up on other Pacific beaches.
Maybe the stars are right and R'lyeh is rising?
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- 1 vote
#4 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:24 PM EDT{"commentId":8233794,"authorDomain":"corie-springer"}
May the Great Cthulhu raise and render insane our enemies and allies alike.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":8231790,"authorDomain":"proteus"}
That's Palin's hunk of dufuss poop and brain farts that got tangled up in the ball of slime & dead giant squid "AdipicAcid" mentioned. Her stench will last awhile until Alaskans know she has completely exited the state or their government buildings.
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- 2 votes
#5 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 2:47 PM EDT{"commentId":8232183,"authorDomain":"joegintn"}
Better call peta, and send out green peace right away we don't want anyone to hurt it.
hey wait a minute, was anbody from exxon around when they found it?
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- 3 votes
#6 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:01 PM EDT{"commentId":8232241,"authorDomain":"sionxxii"}
Attention!!! The movie "The Blob" was a documentary!!! They hypnotised Steve McQueen to forget it and gave him a film career!!
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- 4 votes
#7 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:03 PM EDT{"commentId":8232495,"authorDomain":"ruthlessmoose"}
I was wondering if anyone was gonna bring this up. Anyone who saw the ending knows they dropped it off up there.... it's just taken this long for it to escape!
Run for your lives!!!
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":8233526,"authorDomain":"megidoloan"}
Well, Blobfest was last weekend, so maybe The Blob is just going home. XD
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8232696,"authorDomain":"amphoto87"}
Jimmy Hoffa
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- 4 votes
#8 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:20 PM EDT{"commentId":8233275,"authorDomain":"ericbfuller1957"}
Hoffa's buried at Giants Stadium, Citi Field, the new Yankee Stadium and Tony Soprano's backyard.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8233392,"authorDomain":"barry-rutherford"}
couple of blue minki whales making love perhaps ?
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- 1 vote
#9 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:46 PM EDT{"commentId":8234007,"authorDomain":"dcuben"}
So that's where you are, eh? Bad Blob... bad Blob! You had us so worried. You get home right now, y'hear me?!?
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- 2 votes
#10 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:08 PM EDT{"commentId":8234027,"authorDomain":"Icon-of-Sin"}
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- 3 votes
#11 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:09 PM EDT{"commentId":8241522,"authorDomain":"proteus"}
Awesome post. You make Riply and CPL. Hicks proud.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8234325,"authorDomain":"MushroomX"}
Only in America where someone will take this goo, deep fry it, and put cheese and bacon on and eat it.
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- 3 votes
#12 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 4:21 PM EDT{"commentId":8234386,"authorDomain":"Icon-of-Sin"}
LOL
Yes, I will take a McBlob with cheese meal, side of moss, hold the fungi.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":8247630,"authorDomain":"menaEvie"}
ROFL - very gross but very funny!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":8238347,"authorDomain":"kperodin"}
I expect a giant nostril to surface offshore anytime now.
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- 3 votes
#13 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 7:48 PM EDT{"commentId":8238583,"authorDomain":"ostrichstealth"}
Wasn't that thing in Creepshow 2?
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- 2 votes
#14 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:02 PM EDT{"commentId":8238962,"authorDomain":"inghar2004"}
It will be most interesting to hear the results of all the tests.
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- 3 votes
#15 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:28 PM EDT{"commentId":8239193,"authorDomain":"Rixar13"}
I'm curious and would be interested to find out what it is.
Hasenauer said the Coast Guard's samples are being analyzed in Anchorage. Results may be back sometime next week, he said.
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- 6 votes
#16 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:45 PM EDT{"commentId":8241799,"authorDomain":"ghall1950"}
So would I, but I'd be willing to bet if it IS anything to do with oil, they won't tell us.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":8239311,"authorDomain":"midwestlady"}
Call the Ghostbusters!! The cousin of the NYC slime is coming for revenge!
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- 2 votes
#17 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:54 PM EDT{"commentId":8239790,"authorDomain":"the-grox"}
It's Obama's pile of political promises dumped out to sea where it would just LOOK like it was coming from Alaska.
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- 2 votes
#18 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:28 PM EDT{"commentId":8240039,"authorDomain":"jwms"}
If it is an Algae Bloom, it appears to be one mighty big one!!
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- 2 votes
#19 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 9:48 PM EDT{"commentId":8241462,"authorDomain":"proteus"}
OK! Seriously! I have looked at that picture over & over. I realize it is brain matter that has been flowing from Palin's (g-u-l-p) ears since September, 2008. This is probably why she has been acting so weird and mentally challenged during her interviews, babbling speeches & press conferences. I would want to apologize to her about all the negative things I've said about her; but I prefer to wait until the test results come in, just in case she really is an inept, screwy, imbecile and it has nothing to do with the goo. So, I am withholding all of my comments until yesterday!
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- 2 votes
#20 - Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:51 PM EDT{"commentId":8244916,"authorDomain":"ronco104"}
sorry, i got really drunk, and , well...
luv,
ron
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- 2 votes
#21 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:44 AM EDT{"commentId":8245584,"authorDomain":"susibv"}
It's the detritus of the GOP.
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#22 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:24 AM EDT{"commentId":8246377,"authorDomain":"CarlZup"}
This has nothing to do with the GOP or Sarah Palin, while they may exibit the same repulsive qualities to some, they are both still living for the time being.
My guess is that this a long dead biomass recently freed from an icy tomb. Not one creature but a collection of dead plants and animals that were trapped in some backwater then encased in ice.
The ice pack above the arctic circle has been reduced significantly in recent years, so much so that it is now getting easier for ships to navigate a Northwest Passage
Now that the ice is receding (and this is not a reference to global warming, rather, just an observation of known events) who knows what may be released to ride the ocean currents?
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- 3 votes
#23 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 11:04 AM EDT{"commentId":8246945,"authorDomain":"jimmyjamm93442"}
A Jurassic Blob? a dare I mention that oil IS Fossilized bio-mass.. my guess is that is was released not from frozen ice, but from a passing ship, probable a fish factory ship.. and the waste is production waste from skining and deboning thousands of fish, and well, now and then seagulls get caught in the nets as they are unloading in the ship..would explain everything... just a few points fo ponder
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8247257,"authorDomain":"CarlZup"}
I wouldn't go as far to say it's from millions of years ago, maybe tens or hundreds...a thousand? However, waste from a factory ship is a plausible source too.
Where sushi goes to die... lol
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":8251227,"authorDomain":"storyballoon"}
I have video of this up on youtube
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#24 - Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:23 PM EDT{"commentId":8254881,"authorDomain":"redwolf"}
It's near Barrow, so I call vampire remains.
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- 2 votes
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