A Giant Hot Blob is Heading Toward New York City—and It May Be Capable of Dividing Continents

Popular Mechanics ^ | August 12, 2025 | Emma Frederickson

[SuperLuminal]

So... Stacy Abrams is headed to NY???

[njslim]

Yes saw it on late night in my teens

one reviewer classified it as “deliciously paranoid “

[hal ogen]

Tone it down! I suggest using “steaming pile” when describing that wretch.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Slow, slow tectonic plate movement “pushed” into a dramatic breathe-taking story of New York City being melted from underground.

Too much drama. Not enough information to understand. No maps.

[dfwgator]

There’s something solid forming in the air,
The wall of death is lowered in Times Square.
No-one seems to care,
They carry on as if nothing was there.

The wind is blowing harder now,
Blowing dust into my eyes.
The dust settles on my skin,
Making a crust I cannot move in
And I’m hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway.

-Genesis (Fly On A Windshield)

[SunkenCiv]

In case it hasn't been suggested in this particular thread as of yet, Cthulhu.

[left that other site]

Great Minds...

[gleeaikin]

If this blob is traveling 12 miles per million years, why would it take 15 trillion years to reach New York. Surely that is a typo. In that many years, the blob could probably travel all the way to the moon.

[Red Badger]

NYC tolls always create a traffic jam................

[Red Badger]

I remember that!..............