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Posted by DocFeind 1 day ago

Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland(www.cleveland.com)
85 points | 49 commentspage 2
gmuslera 1 day ago|
There is a documentary about it on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051418/
vntok 1 day ago|
Or this one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1031280/
tzot 16 hours ago||
Even better the last segment of that one (specifically an aquatic organism): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092796/
nashashmi 1 day ago||
Could it be the hard to get discovery of Random life emerging from the waters?
_dain_ 1 day ago||
was the black goo different than the sparkly green goo?
sam_goody 1 day ago||
I assume that they have naming rights. ShipGoo001 is somewhat playful, but even better would be something like "ICan'tBelieveIt'sNotTar!",

[and once I am daydreaming, Let's have the leading I as a roman numeral - CIIXVICan'tBelieve...]

And, preemptively: 1. People have started "not-a-fork"ing git repos, a la LumoSQL. 2. Fedora purposely uses special characters in their release names.

bitwize 1 day ago|
Reddit in the 10s would have named it GooeyMcGooface.
stockresearcher 1 day ago||
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ahazred8ta 1 day ago||
"ShipGoo001 is believed to be a single cell organism" - It was found on a University of Minnesota Duluth research ship.
sherdil2022 1 day ago|
That gives us the right to poke, prod and kill in the name of science?
RugnirViking 1 day ago||
I don't really know if its possible to go through life without harming life as small as that. There's a religion where they try, Jainism. They will literally avoid eating food that's stored overnight, because it has higher concentrations of microorganisms. But even they acknowledge its impossible to entirely avoid causing harm, and only seek to minimize it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jain_vegetarianism

bitcurious 1 day ago|||
Assuming you’re not a haywire LLM, if you’re alive and posting here, you eat. If you eat, you’ve already internalized and practiced the notion that it’s acceptable to kill other life forms to stay alive.

The study of biology also serves to keep people alive; our modern practice of medicine evolved from the understanding gained by scientists, studying in the name of science.

thatguy0900 1 day ago|||
It's a microbial goop, as far as ethics go I'm not sure you can really do better. Eating plants is probably more ethically questionable
vntok 1 day ago||
The point is the scientist didn't know it was until after blowtorching it.
trollbridge 1 day ago|||
And this is how the hyper-intelligent race of ShipGoo0001 beings decided humans were an existential threat.
goopypoop 1 day ago||||
I'm just glad they got it before it bit anyone's arms off
thatguy0900 1 day ago|||
It was obviously a goop before he did that. Do you think there was a chance the goop would leap up like the thing? He was probably seeing if it was oil
fred_is_fred 1 day ago||
Won't someone think of the prokaryotes!
ahazred8ta 1 day ago||
https://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/ancestors