Have you heard of the Arctic Goo that may be alive and floating around? It’s like something out of an old Saturday afternoon Sci-Fi movie. Curious observers pulled remnants of a goose out of the goo. It’s dark and seems to stick to the side of melting glaciers. So far no one knows what it is and no one has seen anything like it before.
It’s not small either. According to the Anchorage Daily News: a helicopter followed a strand of the stuff for 15 miles! It’s passing by the North slope. The North Slope in Alaska is home to oil development and is a sore spot for environmentalists since reports about the impact of wildlife in that area are not good. The blob that’s passing by is surmised to be a natural phenomenon, not an oil spill or anything.
Wouldn’t it be ironic if nature produced some sort of glob to even the score for the devastation by the oil industry in that area? The North Slope sits on permafrost. You know the layer of earth that is unthawing rapidly up there. Who knows, the North slope may end up heading south or into the sea where it will meet its match with nature’s Arctic Blob. Funny times we’re in.
Read about it: http://www.adn.com/2835/story/864687.html