Comments on: Mystery of the deep-sea BLOOP solved

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:34:00 +0000

It is the sound of the sleeping, flatulating Cthulhu. If the sound doesn’t drive you mad, the smell will.

By: OtherMichael

OtherMichael — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 02:53:00 +0000

Icy Hot hot.

By: Leaping Lemur

Leaping Lemur — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:00:00 +0000

Probably, though the weirdest noises might come from seals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlrcbKlW4Tw

They sound like a sci-fi movie from the 70s.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 23:13:00 +0000

I seem to remember reading about when North Pole explorers camp for the night and lay on their side, one ear is pressed to the icy ground, and all sorts of random, indescribable noises clang and rumble from below, in the distance. Must be fascinating for a while, but then I’d probably have to lay face up to catch any sort of sleep.

By: kallikanzaros

kallikanzaros — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Some of you are making fun of this… but when the Sleeping Lord of Rlyeh finally wakes up, it AINT GONNA BE FUNNY…
You have been warned

By: Christian Jacobsen

Christian Jacobsen — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:26:00 +0000

The Bloop has been an open question in oceanography for more than 20 years. There are things at the edges of every scientific discipline that puzzle scientists, and they think about them in the back of their heads when they sleep at night…

The Bloop (and other odd audio phenomena) have not had an adequate explanation for decades, so they nagged at the back of people’s brains.

So yes, having a long-unexplained phenomenon finally explained is news.

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 20:00:00 +0000

They explain the bloop. And the very next day it turns out that Sandy Island was never there.

Coincidence?

I THINK NOT.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:56:00 +0000

So wait. Somebody dug up a fifteen year old tape of the ocean going bloop. And they said it was an icequake bloop. And this is headline news.

By: gwyllion

gwyllion — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:44:00 +0000

p.s. – i am a hopeful skeptic – but have loved the idea of a Cthulhu bloop-monster! Bloop to poof is right!!!!!

By: gwyllion

gwyllion — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:43:00 +0000

ok – then WHY all the talk that it could only have been made from an organic (living) source – that has been the question all along. Consistent with the vocalizations of whatever – whale-like but massive in size. Seems like the ice theory would have been put forth at the beginning (most probable theories first, right?), and why no repeats?

By: Derek C. F. Pegritz

Derek C. F. Pegritz — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:02:00 +0000

Yeah, but what CAUSED the icequake? Natural processes…or a shoggoth rolling over in its sleep?!

By: cellocgw

cellocgw — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:50:00 +0000

That’s what they want you to think. It’s Hunt for Red October all over again, with a new, as yet unknown, propulsion system.

By: Leaping Lemur

Leaping Lemur — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:48:00 +0000

I felt the same. And then I went “damn ice, u scary.” It makes the weirdest noises, and I am both happy with, and terrified by, the science that brought me this knowledge that I can never unlearn. Even if I may want to.

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:29:00 +0000

I find it’s mostly naked ladies that are ball-lightening.

By: newhavenstumpjumper

newhavenstumpjumper — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:27:00 +0000

I thought this was debunked as the researchers 5 year old son recording his farts in the bathtub…

By: AnonymousViewer

AnonymousViewer — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 12:39:00 +0000

It’s Cthulhu snoring!!!

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:54:00 +0000

Ahhhh, dear Debbie. She asked me to her senior prom but I couldn’t make it. What memories that brings back.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:09:00 +0000

Icequake? I think not.

By: cdh1971

cdh1971 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:33:00 +0000

All other bloops and bleems are ball-lightening. The orb above your house - ball-lightening. The probe in your ahnoos - ball-lightening.

By: efergus3

efergus3 — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:25:00 +0000

And UFOs are all just the planet Venus or swamp gas. RIIIIIIIIIGHT.

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 09:24:00 +0000

Ice is way hot, man.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:47:00 +0000

Oh well, there’s always Tila Tequila videos on YouTube to keep the fire alive.

Ice is not cool*!

*Ok, maybe cool to the touch but not cool cool.

Really? Last I noticed, ice was still too cool for school.

By: niktemadur

niktemadur — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:43:00 +0000

Bittersweet. On the one hand, a very intriguing question has been solved. But on the other – every few years I bumped into the BLOOP audio file and was fascinated all over again, but now that we know what it is, the element of mystery has gone from BLOOP to POOF!

By: Ashen Victor

Ashen Victor — Thu, 22 Nov 2012 08:41:00 +0000

But… the aliens, Atlantis, the sea monsters… What are we supposed to do now with our conspiracy theories?!
Ice is not cool*!

*Ok, maybe cool to the touch but not cool cool.