Talk:Star jelly

Weasel vomit?

Nuff said.

• 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)

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)

Yes, and those "stones falling from the sky" were found to be natural phenomena. Which "those damn scienteeests!" provided evidence for themselves. If this is occurring, as it still hasn't even been established if it's completely factual or even the incidents related at all, then it will be either natural, a hoax or "naturally" (animal vomit or excretions) placed there. 124.148.235.41 (talk) 07:26, 10 May 2010 (UTC) Sutter Cane

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)

FLYING WHALES!? *GASP* ;D

Prop: New assessment category

Sanity: This one would get delusional. The red rain refd to in Scientific analysis has no obvious connection to Star jelly, unless doing characteristic insane jumps-to-conclusions. Said: Rursus ☻ 15:48, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

I added a Template:Importance-sect to that section, refering to the following:

Whatte hecc has red rain to do with star jelly?

More to come. Said: Rursus ☻ 16:05, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

-I came in here using special:random, and I can see right now it needs some work on opposing theories (and grammar), so I'm going to rearrange it to make it more skeptically. I'm just writing to let you know if you don't like it, you can just revert it.

7h3 3L173 (talk) 20:22, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

I like the current state of the article better. The topic is delusional, but the article is in better shape now. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 12:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

You NEED to check out the Belcher/Swale paper. It is perhaps still the definite treatment of the stuff. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 00:55, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Pop culture

The pop culture section seems to contain this and that unrelated to the topic, just any phrase that happens to have anything like "jelly" or "star" in it. I propose the section is simply deleted. Four of the refs are dead links, the http://www.bartleby.com/216/0205.html link provides a ref to a allegedly poetic text that provides similes, happenstance one with "star" and afterwards one with "jelly". Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 13:10, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

FYI

ALGAE-L Archives gives some explanations that I don't exactly know if they're properly citable, but it contains some non-UFO, non-astronomical explanations that doesn't sound too far fetched, in my estimation. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 13:43, 17 February 2010 (UTC)