Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mystery. Show all posts

Monday, May 20, 2013

The Secret Of The Ooze

Just in time for blockbuster season, a flashback to an old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film... apparently, ooze creeped from the cracks of a Nanjing street, as-of-yet unexplained, only to disappear back:



Am I ever glad our environmental policies are so strict we can rule out human behaviour as a cause of all of this. I'm particularly fond of MSN's hypothesis:
No one knows what the substance was, but the official explanation says it was a material used to soften soil for a nearby subway construction, and was as harmless as soap bubbles. Many people are skeptical, preferring to blame China's corner-cutting efforts to save money. Whatever it was, it soon seeped back into the cracks, raising two even more important questions: Where did it go, and what is it planning?