15 Mile Long Alaskan Blob Of Goo Baffles Experts

Folks, they literally can not figure out what this thing is. There are guesses that it’s algae, but 15 miles of solid algae?

Here’s what we do know…

1. It’s 15 miles long.
2. It’s not oil.
3. It’s organic in nature, so it’s alive (sort of).
4. It appears to be growing larger.
5. It’s not affected by extremely cold temperatures.
6. AND, it’s “eating” things that fall on it or that it envelopes as it slowly travels the Arctic Ocean.

I am officially terrified.

From ADN:

The stuff is “gooey” and looks dark against the bright white ice floating in the Arctic Ocean, [Gordon Brower with the North Slope Borough's Planning and Community Services Department] said.

“It’s pitch black when it hits ice and it kind of discolors the ice and hangs off of it,” Brower said. He saw some jellyfish tangled up in the stuff, and someone turned in what was left of a dead goose — just bones and feathers — to the borough’s wildlife department.

“It kind of has an odor; I can’t describe it,” he said. [...]

Brower said it wouldn’t necessarily surprise him if the substance turns out to be some sort of naturally occurring phenomenon, but the borough is waiting until it gets the analysis back from the samples before officials say anything more than they’re not sure what it is.

“From the air it looks brownish with some sheen, but when you get close and put it up on the ice and in the bucket, it’s kind of blackish stuff … (and) has hairy strands on it.”

“it’s kind of blackish stuff …(and) has hairy strands on it.”

W? T? F?

Here’s the question: Did Sarah Palin quit because she knew the blob of goo would destroy Alaska?

(Photo: ADN)