Judgement Day

from CNN.com:

GREENLAND -- Earlier this month, the Atlantic Transport freighter Northern Belle contracted for a research project funded by Carnegie Mellon University and led by Dr. Eugene Preskin, discovered an unidentifiable blue gel hidden within the ice of an Arctic glacier. Some of the blue gel turned into a blue mist that headed East on the wind currents as soon as it hit the air. Since that day it has been continuing East toward Greenland, where it finally reached this morning at approximately 10:30 AM local time.

Scientists have suspected that the cloud is biological in nature and have been curious to see what, if anything, would happen when the cloud came in contact with land and animals. Because they could not be certain what the results would be and because Dr. Preskin and the Northern Belle have been out of contact for several days, the precautionary measure of evacuating the small tourist town of Quqertarsuaq was made two days ago.

All air and maritime traffic were ordered to keep a radius of three miles from the blue cloud. Press helicopters equipped with long range cameras took up positions along the coastline to capture the cloud’s landfall. What they saw was amazing. As the cloud approached, all animals in the area seemed to sense approaching danger and began running or flying in all directions away from the cloud.

The cloud itself seemed to be dispersing for the first time in its long journey across the ocean, spreading to a thin line stretching north and south. But instead of completely dissipating, it held together forming a line like a front on a weather or military map, covering a much wider area of coastline.

As it moved inland pushed by strong wind currents, it began to overtake some of the smaller and slower animals making their exodus inland. It seemed that as soon as the cloud reached these creatures they fell, leaving fields strewn with the bodies. As it progressed, the cloud itself seemed to increase in size, continuously advancing.

The animals continued to charge East across the island, swarmed through the town of Quqertarsuaq and out the other side. When they reached the Eastern coast of the island about 90 minutes later, the animals still on their feet charged right into the ocean in an unprecedented mass suicide.

While scientists and governments continue to theorize on the exact nature of the cloud, evacuation orders have been issued for all inhabited areas of Greenland and all ships, boats and aircraft have been ordered to take part in what is the largest multinational evacuation effort to date. The UN has also advised any nations in the apparent path of the growing cloud to make preparations to evacuate as quickly as possible.

CNN will continue to follow this situation as it develops. We will be making constant updates to our television and internet outlets simultaneously until some sort of resolution is reached.

This confirms my grave suspicions of the status of Eugene’s ship. The question remains of how the Navy will proceed.