# Any Updates on the Bloop? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [April 20, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021 "2011-04-20T00:08:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mac\_bolan00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b3f665/32.png) [@mac\_bolan00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mac_bolan00)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/1 "2011-04-20T00:08:32Z")
i’m talking about that one-sound anomaly taken by several sonar/audio phones scattered around the (atlantic?) ocean back in 1997. oceanographers say it sounded like it came from a biological source. but to have been picked up over such a large area by several phones, it had to have been bigger than any animal known to man. google for specifics. i’ll welcome different interpretations as well. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/2 "2011-04-20T00:21:39Z")
I am going to go with [massive methane release](http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_02/) from deep sea methane hydrates. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/3 "2011-04-20T02:26:03Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am going to go with [massive methane release](http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_02/) from deep sea methane hydrates. Is this based on certain properties of the audio profile, or just a hunch? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/4 "2011-04-20T09:02:07Z")
Just a hunch, and the belief that it is more reasonable than a gigantic sea monster. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/5 "2011-04-20T11:22:02Z")
It’s okay. We were able to get it back into the containment vessel and the implementation timeline of the project was only set back by six months, so the full release will be on the vernal eqinox instead of the autumnal. We apologise for any inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/6 "2011-04-20T11:39:29Z")
_In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits farting_ Either that, or Christopher Moore got it right in **Fluke** ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/7 "2011-04-20T11:39:51Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > I am going to go with [massive methane release](http://www.giss.nasa.gov/research/briefs/schmidt_02/) from deep sea methane hydrates. In other words ancient massive flatulence, which is still kind of an eldritch abomination. ---
**Author:** ![Hbns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8edcca/32.png) [@Hbns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbns)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/8 "2011-04-20T12:15:28Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > Just a hunch, and the belief that it is more reasonable than a gigantic sea monster. Better stick with the sea monster or the global warming denialists will jump all over the bloop as evidence that man has nothing to do with it. ---
**Author:** ![snowmaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e99b99/32.png) [@snowmaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowmaster)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/9 "2011-04-20T13:32:29Z")
> [@Hbns](#): > > Better stick with the sea monster or the global warming denialists will jump all over the bloop as evidence that man has nothing to do with it. See, **Fear Itself** , shaving with occam’s Razor can give you some nasty razor burn. ---
**Author:** ![MacLir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@MacLir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacLir)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/10 "2011-04-20T15:17:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits farting_ > > Either that, or Christopher Moore got it right in **Fluke** Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhartagn 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/11 "2011-04-20T18:04:41Z")
Let the Kraken release a fart! ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/12 "2011-04-20T19:30:07Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Either that, or Christopher Moore got it right in **Fluke** Let’s hope not! ---
**Author:** ![cafink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@cafink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cafink)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/13 "2011-04-20T19:42:23Z")
Brian Dunning produced a really great episode of his “Skeptoid” podcast about The Bloop a couple of years ago: > **[The Bloop](https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4177)** > > This mysterious sound captured by NOAA hydrophones was not a sea monster. ---
**Author:** ![LonesomePolecat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@LonesomePolecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LonesomePolecat)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/14 "2011-04-21T16:20:22Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > _In his house at R’lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits farting_ And I’ll bet he blames it on Yog Sothoth, too. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/15 "2011-04-21T20:18:06Z")
I have an ironclad alibi, so don’t even ask. ---
**Author:** ![wbeaty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/439d5e/32.png) [@wbeaty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wbeaty)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/16 "2011-04-21T21:53:08Z")
If a sea monster, why aren’t we detecting constant Bloops? Or perhaps a bloop-cluster per year during mating season? The lack of blooping distant mega-sealife suggests more like a one-shot geological phenomenon. Or maybe it was the death-scream of the last Bloop creature, when shot by idiots testing a submarine acoustic weapon. ---
**Author:** ![Shot\_From\_Guns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ccd318/32.png) [@Shot\_From\_Guns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_From_Guns)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/17 "2011-04-21T21:56:22Z")
Maybe the Bloop Create was on a once-in-a-lifetime Bloop holiday to an exotic Bloop destination that it will never visit again. Betcha didn’t think of that, Mr. Smart Guy. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2011, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/18 "2011-04-21T22:15:51Z")
> [@LonesomePolecat](#): > > And I’ll bet he blames it on Yog Sothoth, too. Hey WTF, don’t blame it on me! It was probably that bitch Shub Niggurath and her horde of a thousand bastards ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/19 "2011-04-22T00:52:18Z")
Did it emanate from the Marianas Trench? ---
**Author:** ![Billy\_Rubin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billy_rubin/32/3622_2.png) [@Billy\_Rubin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy_Rubin)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2011, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021/20 "2011-04-22T02:44:10Z")
Flatulence. I haz it. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-updates-on-the-bloop/579021.md?page=2)