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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: ABX on August 01, 2016, 08:30:48 pm

Title: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: ABX on August 01, 2016, 08:30:48 pm: Quote
The sea is dark and full of terror. Well, perhaps not always terror, but certainly mysterious lifeforms, as evidenced by a bizarre purple blob that appeared off the coast of California the other week.

Now, a new bemusing lump of biological matter has appeared near the shores of Bunbury, Western Australia, and it’s safe to say that it caused some fishermen a bit of head-scratching. Smooth, pink, fleshy, and unbearably smelly, this chunky conundrum simply couldn’t be identified – at least at first.....

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/heck-smelly-pink-blob-floating-indian-ocean/

(http://cdn.iflscience.com/images/a323394e-2fb9-57fa-96a1-43ee760d70e6/extra_large-1470067914-cover-image.jpg)
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: ABX on August 01, 2016, 08:31:23 pm: The first seagull to pop its beak into that is in for a big surprise.
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: Cripplecreek on August 01, 2016, 08:32:00 pm: Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: ABX on August 01, 2016, 08:36:39 pm: Quote from: Cripplecreek on August 01, 2016, 08:32:00 pm
Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.

Yep, stomach full of gas from decomposition like a big zit waiting to pop, and she goes...

(http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/explodingwhale600.gif)
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: Lando Lincoln on August 01, 2016, 08:53:23 pm: (http://previews.123rf.com/images/hyrons/hyrons1305/hyrons130500037/19752707-Hand-holding-pin-isolated-on-white-ready-to-pop-something--Stock-Photo.jpg)
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: roamer_1 on August 01, 2016, 08:55:41 pm: Quote from: Cripplecreek on August 01, 2016, 08:32:00 pm
Without reading the story I'm gonna say its some kind of dead baleen whale.

If it is anything like a beaver in a similar condition ... DON'T POKE IT WITH A STICK.
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: SunkenCiv on August 06, 2016, 08:54:28 pm: Another Malaysian airliner?
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: EC on August 06, 2016, 09:32:59 pm: My God! They found Robert Maxwell.
Title: Re: What The Heck Was This Smelly Pink Blob Floating In The Indian Ocean?
Post by: Chieftain on August 06, 2016, 09:58:24 pm: Dead whale welled up like a poisoned puppy...could be enough hydrogen sulfide in there to be quite dangerous.