what fresh hell is the blob dropping on us now;

When Dr. Jane Ruby sent me a sample she had collected over a period of approximately six months near West Palm Beach, Florida, I didn't think much of it at first. Although I agreed to look at the sample under a powerful digital microscope, I didn't expect to see much there other than dust and dirt particles. I also agreed to run it through ICP-MS (mass spec) analysis in my food science lab to test the concentrations of aluminum and heavy metals, and I didn't expect to find much there, either.

Boy was I wrong.

On both counts.

Under the microscope, this sample -- take from a plastic sheet covering tomato plants on her property -- showed a multitude of strange biological structures... things that resemble tiny eggs, bacterial colonies, fungal structures, algal features and more. The microscopy photos below reveal some of the details. The most zoomed-in photos are taken at a magnification of around 2000x.

Here's one that reveals the diploid egg-like structures that are scattered across the surface of the plastic. There are seemingly millions of them:...........more.........