This is a case for Paul Bunyan & Babe, the Blue Ox.
Arctic Mystery: Identifying the Great Blob of Alaska
Time.comBy WESLEY LOY / Anchorage – Sat Jul 18, 3:30 pm ET
A group of hunters aboard a small boat out of the tiny Alaska village of Wainwright were the first to spot what would eventually be called “the blob.” It was a dark, floating mass stretching for miles through the Chukchi Sea, a frigid and relatively shallow expanse of Arctic Ocean water between Alaska’s northwest coast and the Russian Far East. The goo was fibrous, hairy. When it touched floating ice, it looked almost black.
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It’s happened previously folks.
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This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio, taken July 25, 2008, shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack, at center, right, is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part of the glacier could lose up to one third of its size. (AP Photo/Byrd Polar Research Center)
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THE END???
Images: (Gunsmoke title) via the60sofficialsite.com; (trust) via dvdtimes.co.uk;(dillon trust) CF.(tongue) via thisdistractedglobe.com; (big creature) pub32.bravenet.com via cinemafantastique.com;(Miss Kitty) via images.amazon.com;(hat & badge) + (Dillon dark) via signingstars.co.uk;(dark) + (Thing title) +(lens) via bp1.blogger.com via screenshotworld.blogspot.com;
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(Alaska goo) overview on You Tube via huffingtonpost.com; close-up (photo: North Slope Borough) via allgove.com; (Sergeant Preston of the Yukon) via dvdtalk.com
-Friday, August 22, 2008