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  • VIMS scientists help solve mystery of “alien pod”

    11/01/2010 3:43:26 PM PDT · by decimon · 15 replies
    Virginia Institute of Marine Science ^ | October 29, 2010 | David Malmquist
    > Co-worker Charlie Schmuck says “The lake is behind our office. Tracy was walking by the lake, saw the object, and asked everyone else to come out and take a look.” Tracy thought it was “a huge dead snake.” Charlie thought it “looked like some weird underwater fungus, like the ones that explode when you poke them.” > The scientists at VIMS were equally intrigued. The e-mail read “The object is about 4 feet in diameter. It has moved about 6 feet down the shoreline in the last 24 hours. It 'jiggles' when the waves in the lake hit it…...