Mystery Goo is toxic, hundreds dead in California!

[OrtwinS]

Have we been visited by Kerbals?

A mysterious substance is killing hundreds of birds along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay.

Scientists have factored out petroleum, fish and vegetable oil as the culprit, but the makeup of the mystery goo remains anyone's guess, reports CBS News correspondent John Blackstone.

They know it's not the usual suspect, an oil spill, but it's as dangerous.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mystery-goo-in-california-killing-hundreds-of-birds/

'Enjoy'

[Dizzle]

Huh. So this is what happens when the goo escapes into the water. Oops.

[Frank_G]

And they seem to not have progressed far enough through the tech-tree to use a lab module and clean the escaped experiment...

And besides the funny coincidence its an ugly tragedy...

[Alshain]

That's very disturbing. Sorry to say, it just doesn't seem like something to joke about.

[xcorps]

uh, it's a couple hundred birds...not the extinction of everything avian...

[sal_vager]

Chemical spills can have extensive knock-on effects, there may be no way to know how much damage something like this can do :/

[Delrey]

I saw a picture and it looks like the goo feels right at home

[LordFerret]

Any decent lab with spectrography equipment could tell them what the 'mysterious' goo is... likely for a lot less than the $8000 per day they're spending for cleaning the birds.

[NovaSilisko]

Maybe we should change the thread title to be more descriptive and less uselessly sensationalist. Mentioning that it's birds, not people, for starters.

[Whirligig Girl]

Maybe we should change the thread title to be more descriptive and less uselessly sensationalist. Mentioning that it's birds, not people, for starters.

Pfft, stop being so human-centric, man.