Steve McQueen starred in a movie back in the 50s called The Blob. The 'Blob' was apparently an alien creature that was very hungry and every time it 'ate' someone by rolling over them and apparently absorbing them; it got bigger. When it got loose in a movie theater it got really big!
Last night on my local news there was a segment about mysterious blobs being found on and near the shores of a local lake. The pictures shown looked like a miniature of The Blob as in the movie! Icky!
Oh my, what strange things are happening here in Texas! First it's the humongous spider web with thousands of spiders and now it's the blob!
Well, it turns out the blob isn't going to eat anyone and get bigger. (So they say! But Lake Grapevine is closed to the public! Are they really just trying to protect us?)
In a press release, the City of Grapevine said each one "is a colony of millions of tiny organisms (freshwater invertebrates called moss animals or 'zooids'). The colony exudes a protective gelatinous material that makes it resemble a big ball of jelly."
Mysterious Blob
They cause no harm, and their presence signifies good water quality. They actually clean the water by eating microscopic plants.
When they dry up, they turn into a paper like substance that crumbles and disintegrates.
I think Steve McQueen had to trap his big Blob in a diner and freeze it to stop it. Then they flew it to the Arctic so it wouldn't thaw and start eating more people. Hm, with global warming do you think the blob will come alive and start getting big again with the polar bears?
The spiders have rebuilt their giant web again after the last rain. It's not just one kind of spider either; at least twelve kinds have been identified. What's going on here in Texas?
Martha
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