The Florida Dead Zone - black spot in ocean shows up on satellite pics

[XMan]

This is a tad spooky, eh?

Satellite Spots Mystery Patch of Black Water Near Florida

The Bradenton Herald also reported, on Wednesday, that fishing was poor in the area and that it was barren of marine life.

 

[Elledan]

So that's where the US left some of its toxic waste.


😉

 

[rival]

erm, looks kinda pointless to me, the image of florida seems to be glowing with radiation

 

[Kadarin]

It would be interesting to read a followup of this story after scientists publish the results of that analysis. It does make you wonder if it's natural phenomena or if it's some kind of man-made pollution.

 

[MikeO]

Maybe it's the fountain of youth

 

[HOWITIS]

looks like someone found some texas tea.

 

[Moonbeam]

We all love the American way of life. The question is, 'What do we do if we discover that it's killing our world?'.

 

[SackOfAllTrades]

i'm sorry guys, i was swimming and i really needed to take a crap...

 

[Elledan]

<< We all love the American way of life. The question is, 'What do we do if we discover that it's killing our world?'. >>


Run around in circles while yelling that the sky is falling?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

<< We all love the American way of life. The question is, 'What do we do if we discover that it's killing our world?'. >>



Why Moonbeam, what else? We will market it, package it, sell it through Disney franchises and export it to Europe, where it will sell like hotcakes. 😉

 

[AMDJunkie]

Bah, it's literally last month's news, it happened in February and has since broken up if you had cared to read the article. It's also most likely a biological cause.

 

[Kadarin]

<< We all love the American way of life. The question is, 'What do we do if we discover that it's killing our world?'. >>



We invest heavily in our space program..

 

[tsunek]

It is caused by cultural eutrophication. There is a lot of nutrient rich fertilizers that run into the missisipi river. These cause algal blooms. due to the abundance of a new food source(the algae) the bacteria population skyrockets. The metabolic activity of the huge populations of bacteria removes lots of oxygen from the water(as well as other toxic byproducts) thus everything dies.

 

[tsunek]

whoops didn't read the article thought you were talking about the gulf of mexico dead zone.

 

[Danman]

Maybe I should drive down there and go look at it. 😛

 

[TopGun]

It's that black oil from X-files, the virus has been released!

 

[MadRat]

Nah, not X-files.... think Resident Evil.

The Red Queen failed - the virus has left the Hive.

 

[glen]

Whoa, that is wierd.

 

[b0mbrman]

<< whoops didn't read the article thought you were talking about the gulf of mexico dead zone. >>


Still...your explanation sounds as good as any I've heard here...

 

[yakko]

It did not break up. I just move my secret lab.

 

[Martin]

looks like they finally found the ballots from last year 😉