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Chemist Identifies Mystery 'Blobs' Washing Up in Newfoundland

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73 points mykowebhn | 1 comments | 15 Nov 24 18:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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Terr_ ◴[15 Nov 24 20:10 UTC] No.42150414[source]▶
> a spongy interior and range in size from a coin to a dinner plate, have been found for miles along Placentia Bay

For a moment I misread that as washing up on Placenta Bay, which would have added a whole extra level of odd.

Come to think of it, that blend of unsettling reproductive metaphors and coastal desolation would fit in the game Death Stranding.

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ikiris ◴[15 Nov 24 20:16 UTC] No.42150458[source]▶
You don’t want to live on the shores of anywhere named placenta bay.

There’s guaranteed to be a historical reason for a name that out there, and not in a way that’s good for property value or sunset watching.

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yencabulator ◴[15 Nov 24 23:49 UTC] No.42152679[source]▶
Usually it comes from a reasonably common last name Placencia, which comes from a town on the border region between Spain and France.
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1. tecleandor ◴[20 Nov 24 13:51 UTC] No.42193927[source]▶
Friendly picky correction for several different ways of writing it:

  French: Plaisance
  Occitan: Plasença
  Spanish: Plasencia
And some extra trivia: There are a bunch of different French towns named Plaisance, some of them near the Pyrenees, so probably that where the Plasentia name came from, as I saw that it was French and Basque sailors the ones that arrived there.

The Spanish city of Plasencia is quite far away from the Basque Country, in Extremadura, so probably they weren't referring (or remembering) that concrete city.