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[brettoniasam]

Sandefjord

[CloverfieldClues.com]

If you look at the Google map of where the location of the Garbanzo restaurant is, it looks like it is a house, although there is some kind of large building/store nearby.


Also, I looked up Sandefjord in Wikipedia, and they have a long history of whaling. Here is their coat of arms:

[tiny420]

Whales...Weird O.o;;

[brettoniasam]

...which leads to an interesting thought:

Maybe there's a symbiotic relationship between whales and whatever our Mystery Ingredient is. Hell, kaitei no mitsu (or whatever it's called) could wind up being some kind of plankton or krill...and maybe Tagruato has to follow whale migration routes to set up their drilling rigs to harvest the stuff that makes Slusho so darn tasty...

[Dib]

wow, thats a coincidence.. or is it? xD

[shortestfuse]

"The worm IS the spice, the spice IS the worm."

[brettoniasam]

[Cthulhu]

Maybe I should search this, but I'm to lazy and powerful.

Have gas hydrates been discussed? They're frozen gases and minerals at the bottom of the sea floor. They contain many different substances, and are often found near petroleum chambers on ocean bottoms. Look them up.

The ingredients in the chambers have to be kept frozen, and resemble snow when brought to the surface. If not kept this way, they dissolve into powder and gas, and separate.
Just a thought.

[Red Walrus]

"An interesting side note here is that one of the most active areas of exploring for extremophile microbes is in the skeletons of beached or dead whales in their naturally cold environments"

http://science.nasa.gov/newhome/headlines/lifeontheedge_faq.htm

"Whale skeletons, another source of microbes, are also like isolated islands, so isolated that they are tricky to find. The US Navy helped out scientists by locating one when it was looking for a wayward Triton missile, but in other cases researchers have resorted to towing dead, beached whales out to sea and dumping them.

Isolation is not the only attraction of whale bones. "They ooze complex lipids [greasy molecules that line the outside of cells] over periods of up to 20 years," says Stein. Bacterial mats that grow on the bones are a rich source of the lipases and esterases needed to break down the lipids, and these two classes of enzymes are especially important to industry. The organisms and their enzymes are adapted to the deep-sea cold;"

[keeno_82uk]

not sure about the beached whale theory but i think the gas hydrates informaiton is quite interesting and should be looked into

[Finch]

I just like the fact we are broadening our global look at this thing beyond the so far US/Japan thinking. Anyone do any research into the surrounding countries of the other drill sites?

[kosmopol]

Very interesting find!

[Hurley]

Something strange, or not, about the Sandefjord page. At the bottom is an external link to Gaia.no, a page relating to an ecology movement. The organization is involved in conservation and bioharvesting. Unfortunately, when you get to the links and other information buttons, they dead end. It's like a page designed and thrown together overnight. Wanted to throw that out there

[Hurley]

Sorry, almost forgot. The subject of other countries involvement. If you follow the small symbol links at the bottom of slushozoom.com, the url that takes you to a pharmaceutical company brings you to their main page. If you nav through the sight, theres an ad for a swiss bio tech company that carries and produces a very interesting piece of machinery. If it's new to you all, have a look.

[Finch]