Mystery Goo Identified! Sort of…
For those of you who have been waiting with bated breath regarding the mysterious orange slime that washed up on the shores of the remote Northwestern Coast village of Kivalina, Alaska, the algae experts have spoken.
It’s not algae.
This is why we need such folk, ready to analyze and evaluate on a moment’s notice.
It turns out that the mystery goo is actually zillions of microscopic eggs.
What kind of eggs? Nobody knows. They’ve never been seen before, and nobody has any clue what they are, or what affect they may have on local flora and fauna, or what has resulted in their presence. Time for egg experts.
“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,” said Jeep Rice, a lead NOAA scientist at the Juneau lab.
The eggsperts apparently reside on the East Coast, where samples of the orange slime are being sent as we speak.
Stay tuned.
From what I’ve gathered listening to NPR, the eggs are being found around Kavalina… one can only imagine how terrifying that has to be for the Inuit people there, and for the local environment itself… It seems so strange that these can’t be identified more easily than sending the samples all the way across the country!
I’m most concerned that at some point those eggs will hatch. What is going to come out of there? Ew.
Any Italians around? Omelet dem espalin dis mess.No offense intended.
Let go of my Egg goo!
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They’re red. They’re Russian. Now, more Alasssskans can see Russians from their houses, and we’re sending the Russians back East, as well!
Perhaps the eggs were deposited on some surface and then got disturbed and dislodged by weather. Or could they have gotten away from a fish farming operation?
You pretty much defined the t-bagger movement with your first sentence. They are disturbed. And BD a Russian getting sent to the Eastern Front meant they were headed West to fight Germans for the Motherland. I hope this confuses the issue.
You know how scientists operate: “we’ll just hatch these and find out what they are.” Great.
Godzilla. Mothra. Creature from the Black Lagoon. Sullivan.
As someone who lives on the east coast where they’re sending this stuff, I’m not exactly doing a happy dance about that idea!
Note to self: Be sure not to wear spike heels when you hear something odd in the woods and need to go investigate in the middle of the night wearing a spiffy shirtwaist, and not holding a flashlight.
I’m guessing their t-bagger spawn looking to jump ship in Wisconsin for the Koch brothers and they confused their GPS with their PDQs or something. Aren’t salmon eggs orange?
I would think that people in Alaska would be better than most at identifying salmon eggs. It sounds like they’re a lot smaller than fish eggs, and the scientists did seem to narrow it down to some kind of invertebrate.
Wonder where they sent the sample…
…to some invertebrate eggsperts, presumably.
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Irradiated Fukushima eggs!
Eggs? Orange eggs. Orange eggs and ham? Nah, doesn’t work. Makes a great foundation for a sci-fi book though.
maybe with some of those bacon bits we saw earlier….
Crustacea Boehnerus?
Ha! Now we know where he came from…
With the glaciers melting, it could be anything. Miniature pod people?
Aliens, I tell you! It’s an alien invasion!
eggs?
waiting to hear what/who…
and NOAA here hasn’t seen em before?
thanks for keeping us posted.