So what’s so special about the mysterious Bloop? Three things:
1. It’s alive! Everyone -- every article -- agrees that it is biological in origin! [1]
2. It’s the biggest animal on Earth! Even a blue whale can't bloop so loud!
3. And nobody knows what it is!
That’s so cool that I’m going to repeat myself: The biggest animal on the planet is out there in the depths of the oceans, and nobody knows what the hell it is! Some have speculated that it is a giant squid, but CNN quotes marine biologist Phil Lobel from Boston University, whose specialties include “fish bioacoustics”, as saying, "Cephalopods have no gas-filled sac, so they have no way to make that type of noise".
We love a beautiful mystery, and this, folks, is a big one…
Amazingly, however, I stumbled across the answer to this mystery while reading comics with my kids on the very day that I drafted this here post. According to Namor,[2] "The largest living thing in all the world [is] ... Giganto!" Check it out, and quake in your boots, humanity:
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Footnotes:
[1] Except for a few that don't. Bah. That guy probably gets his jollies from telling kids why there ain't no Santa. Probably tells widows there ain't no god, too.
[2] See page 15 of The Fantastic Four, Volume 1 # 4 (page 93 of the 2005 Omnibus), drawn by King Kirby!
At first I found your idea that the bloop comes from Giganto utterly presposterous. Surely such a behemoth would make a deeper and more rumbling bloop than the fart in a fishtank presented here? But then I took note: this is the bloop sped up 16 times. The slower, deeper version must surely be the work of Giganto!
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It's alive!
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