Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

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Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

#1 Post by chaos » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:11 pm

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-New ... ka-village
August 5, 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska
Authorities say a mysterious orange-colored substance has washed up on the shores of a remote village in northwest Alaska.

Tests have been conducted on the substance on the surface of the water in Kivalina (KIV'-uh-LEE'-nuh). City Administrator Janet Mitchell told The Associated Press that the substance has also shown up in some residents' rain buckets.

Coast Guard Petty Officer David Mosely tells KTUU that it's not a petroleum substance and it's not man-made. Mitchell says the village is requesting that an algae expert from the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigate.
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This Aug. 3 photo provided by Mida Swan shows an orange colored substance that washed ashore in the village of Kivalina, Alaska, a village on the state’s northwest coast about 625 miles northwest of Anchorage, Alaska.

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Re: Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

#2 Post by Artemis » Fri Aug 05, 2011 5:29 pm

Maybe somebody dropped their stash of Tang in the water?? :noclue:

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#3 Post by Jasper » Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:06 am

Artemis wrote:Maybe somebody dropped their stash of Tang in the water?? :noclue:
Heeeeeey, we got an astronaut in the house. Or is that an astronette?

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Re: Mysterious orange goo washes up in Alaska village

#4 Post by ellis » Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:31 am

I'm currently reading a book called Moby Duck. (go get it, it's funny and educational about the plastics industry of China.)

If I was a betting man... I'd say it is from China. They say in the article that it's not man-made. I don't buy it.

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#5 Post by Artemis » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:51 pm

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... c=fb&cc=fp

A mysterious orange goo that appeared on the shore of a small village in Alaska has been identified as "millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets," the AP reports. But researchers say they still don't know what the eggs might hatch, or if they are toxic.
:scared:

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#6 Post by sinep » Tue Aug 09, 2011 4:58 pm

Artemis wrote: "millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets," .
that's what i figured they were.

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#7 Post by Artemis » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:00 pm

sinep wrote:
Artemis wrote: "millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets," .
that's what i figured they were.
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#8 Post by Juana » Tue Aug 09, 2011 5:19 pm

Artemis wrote:http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... c=fb&cc=fp

A mysterious orange goo that appeared on the shore of a small village in Alaska has been identified as "millions of microscopic eggs filled with fatty droplets," the AP reports. But researchers say they still don't know what the eggs might hatch, or if they are toxic.
:scared:
its probably some sea creature pissed off we're poluting and come to kill us all off

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#9 Post by guysmiley » Tue Aug 09, 2011 8:07 pm

I read in the paper today it was believed to be small eggs, maybe from a crustacean.

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