"The picture is of an Antarctic minke whale taken from the bow of a ship," research scientist Nick Gales explains. "The white bits in the photo are pieces of ice-floe, the stream of pinky color behind the whale is a fecal plume — a.k.a. "poo" — the large circle in the water is indeed the physical eruption of the whale's flatulence."
― Jon Williams (ex machina), Thursday, 28 August 2003 21:37 (twenty-two years ago)