Mysterious life form found on ship that docked in Cleveland

DocFeind | 89 points | 12day ago | www.cleveland.com

supermatou|12day ago

> mysterious life form on a docked ship

> black goo

Hey, I've watched this X-Files episode before!

sandworm101|12day ago

This also gave me real xfiles vibes.

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jp191919|12day ago

Exactly what I was thinking, S3 E15 and 16

CrimsonCape|12day ago

>ShipGoo001

Either this is some official iso naming convention, or their department is like my office, where people invent their own arbitrary number formats to say #iamreallysmart. Do you really expect there to be 999 maximum random mystery ship goos? Lol

RugnirViking|12day ago

they mentioned in the article that its only to be named that until it gets a proper (probably latin) name. And that they had found "about 20" previously unidentified strands of DNA in it. So I imagine they registered it as ShipGoo001 through ShipGoo020 in their own computer system

tiagod|12day ago

I think you're taking it too seriously. I think the name is clearly in tongue-in-cheek territory.

burnt-resistor|12day ago

It could be serious to the mariner's wallet if these mystery critters ate up the serviceability of critical boat parts. ;@)

NoMoreNicksLeft|12day ago

We've been at this science thing for nearly 500 years now, and we're only up to ship goo #1. What are the chances we're going to need 4 digits?

lapetitejort|12day ago

Well, for one, we've only recently started to look at the bottom of ships

burnt-resistor|12day ago

And the off-by-one missed opportunity to start at 000. ;)

kibwen|12day ago

You're underestimating Cleveland if you think this is their first goo rodeo.

RestartKernel|11day ago

It's basically no extra investment to add an extra zero or two, and it might avoid a hassle later down the line.

canyp|12day ago

Clearly should have been called MissingNo.

m463|12day ago

Since it is a different lifeform, maybe it has 8 arms and is octal based and numbered in a different scheme, branching out like:

ShipGoo001.003.006.177.004.001.343