Talk:Star jelly

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  • The film Stephen King's Creepshow included a story segment entitled "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" which also centers around "goo" coming out of the center of a meteorite and changing the main character's life (not for the better).--Lordkinbote 22:19, May 16, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Scientific analysis

Little scientific analysis has been done on Star Jelly, largely because the material dissolves so rapidly.

It's unclear that there actually is a single substance which does dissolve rapidly, so I removed the latter phrase. I would expect another important reason why little scientific investigation has been done is that reputable scientists find claims about Star Jelly to be implausible and not worth looking into. -- Beland 05:31, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

I can live with that. Not a problem. :) RickK 20:30, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

'Reputable scientists' used to find the claims about "stones falling from the sky" (>meteorites) to be implausible and not worth looking into, till in the 19th century it finally was no longer possible to deny. If somebody doesn't believe me that "scientists" (of their day) once felt that way about meteorites, I can give you the references. Alexander 007 07:34, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Sounds like ambergris to me

This rare find washes up on the beach in Wales sometimes and comes from the belly of sperm whales. - "It is described as a foul-smelling, gelatinous substance". The only problem is that it doesn't disappear after a few days, unless somebody who knows how valuable it is happens to stumble across it.

Could explain coastal sightings, but wat about the inland ones?
perfectblue 09:54, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
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