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Orange Goo Invades Alaskan Village
s31523 writes "When the residents of the Alaskan village of Kivalina woke up last week, the unexpected sight of an orange goo covering the surface of the water was quite alarming. Suspecting a oil spill or some other man-made disaster, the residents worried about the toxicity of the substance. After NOAA investigated, it was found the that goo is an unknown type of microscopic eggs. According to NOAA scientist Keep Rice, 'We now think these are some sort of small crustacean egg or embryo, with a lipid oil droplet in the middle causing the orange color.' More work is needed to identify what the eggs are and what caused them to show up."
Have any of them tried running across the water at super speed?
which is totally what she said
His brother Store Grain says it was all a hoax.
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Back in them days, Jimmy, we was called the "EuEsAy" and you could walk the streets right out in the open without a rifle. Not an alien in sight, if you can believe that. Then them damn eggs came.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Has 2Dboy introduced a new type of Goo balls in an update I haven't heard of?
According to a ton of different reports on Google news, the substance was tested and found to be crustacean eggs of some type.
So crustaceans: crabs, lobsters, crayfish, shrimp, krill and barnacles. Considering the location and volume, I'm suspecting something like a huge krill spawn that was swept onto the shore by unusual currents, a storm system or the like. As for it being toxic, that's pretty laughable. Toxic crustaceans are very few and far between (one that hasn't been eating toxic algae, and considering these are eggs, they haven't been eating anything).
As far the natives not seeing anything like this before... well it's a big planet. Completely natural, explainable things happen all over the globe every day that haven't happened in that particular spot for hundreds if not thousands of years.
You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Japanese travel agents offer new scoop-it-yourself Alaskan sushi tours...
Hysterical Alaskan Villager: Look at that orange goo! What is it?! Chemicals?! Oil Spill?! Industrial Waste?! We're all DOOOOOOMMMMED!!!!
NOAA Scientist: No need for alarm! It's only billions of eggs of a rare species of crustaceans that, when they hatch, will burrow into your skulls and parasitize your brains. But no worries, they're all natural and have been around for millions of years. It's just part of that wonderful cornucopia of wild life that we evil humans have been destroying with our unsustainable and unnatural way of life.
Hysterical Alaskan Villager: *Whew* Thank goodness it isn't some nasty byproduct of our immoral industrial civilization. I feel so relieved!
NOAA Scientist: Carry on as usual, good earth-friend. Well, for the next few days anyway. What's the quickest way out of town? I have an appointment elsewhere...
Since this is Slashdot, I have to assume the orange goo comes from either a Microsoft security flaw, or a privacy issue with facebook.
More work is needed to identify ... what caused them to show up."
Well, the first step is when Mommy and Daddy crustacean come to love each other very much...
I wonder if the lipid oil in the eggs could be used as a renewable energy source, or petrol replacement for the numerous products made from conventional oil.
Well, you know, I've always been worried about a "grey goo" apocalypse, but now that it's happening and it's a bright cheerful orange color instead, I guess I'm okay with it!
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As much as i understand that there is climate change, this type of speculation before analysis is exactly what the world does not need.
Weird. I did some checking and apparently his real name is Jeep Rice. Really!
Keep Rice was a typo, and that typo is now being propagated all over the Inter-Tubes by trusting bloggers and news aggregators who don't check their facts. (And speaking of Inter-Tubes, he works at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute.)
Just add a couple of spoilers on it and you will have your Jeep Rice.
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Soylent Orange is Crustaceans!
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
True That! It is not our place to question the will of the Great Crustacean!
Bow your heads and ask for mercy...
or at least a tanker full of lemon butter.
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In recent years (10-15) the warming is far below any noise level.
In any 10 to 15 year period the warming is below the noise level, because we're talking about a global average of about 0.15C per decade, and changes in heat transfer from ocean to atmosphere from year to year cause variations that are larger than that. But, even with the annual variations over the last decade, the warming trend is still apparent. http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-cooling-january-2007-to-january-2008.htm
But even though the global trend is 0.15C per decade that doesn't mean that changes in specific places haven't been much larger.
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These are obviously eggs laid by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, in an effort to save the world from Global Warming. They will hatch into Pirates.
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this type of speculation before analysis is exactly what the world does not need.
That's an interesting speculation. You should run an analysis on it, I think.
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