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Everyone is sending me this video of a strange pulsing blob found in a North Carolina sewer inspection. It is officially creepy and disgusting, and someone from the SciFi channel is racing to make creature feature about it right now, I'm sure.
I have no idea what it is, but the explanations that it is a colony of either tubifex worms or bryozoans sounds reasonable. I want to see a sample of that thing put under a microscope.
You are now free to make jokes about <despised NC figure>'s colonoscopy exam in the comments.
The best explanation so far is from Deep Sea News: they're almost certainly tubifex worms, and they have a comparison video to demonstrate it.
Life Science
Comments
Posted by: Brock | July 2, 2009 10:41 AM
Oh shit. Somebody call the Ghostbusters!
Posted by: Minus | July 2, 2009 10:44 AM
Please make that picture go away.
Posted by: Michael | July 2, 2009 10:45 AM
Spectacular. I work a mile from Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC, where the thing is located and eat lunch there most days.
And for despised NC figure, insert John Edwards. Nobody likes him. Nobody ever really did.
Posted by: Dave Wisker | July 2, 2009 10:46 AM
Saw the same creature in the film "Dogma".
Posted by: antilulz | July 2, 2009 10:47 AM
its a zerg cerebrate. duh.
Posted by: Michael | July 2, 2009 10:47 AM
Spectacular. I work a mile from Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC, where the thing is located and eat lunch there most days.
And for despised NC figure, insert John Edwards. Nobody likes him. Nobody ever really did.
Posted by: Goheels | July 2, 2009 10:48 AM
Oh dear, I live about 10 minutes from Cameron Village in Raleigh, maybe it'll grow like that monster in that terribad movie Evolution. And yes, Michael is exactly right, nobody here can stand John Edwards either.
Posted by: Minus | July 2, 2009 10:49 AM
Please make that picture go away.
Posted by: Jeroen Metselaar | July 2, 2009 10:49 AM
Awwwwww, cute!
Where can I get one?
Posted by: PZ Myers
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July 2, 2009 10:49 AM
Language fail: I really don't mean to say the fine fellows at Deep Sea News are a colony of tubifex worms, the blobs are.
Posted by: Didac Lopez-Martinez
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July 2, 2009 10:49 AM
I have no idea of what it is. However, my Zoology lessons were more than 15 years ago. It's amazing the number of creatures that it is hard to identify without calling your more closed zoologist. And, if PZ has also no idea of it, we must wait to the histological results.
Posted by: Lucilius | July 2, 2009 10:49 AM
Next report: John Edwards and Mark Sanford fight over who gets to sleep with it.
Posted by: Watchman | July 2, 2009 10:50 AM
Shit. McQueen is dead, so I guess we're going to have to rely on Kevin Dillon to deal with this one.
Posted by: Standard curve
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July 2, 2009 10:50 AM
How would a superstitious nut interpret this? Let's see...
Demon larvae?
Aliens?
US Govt. genetically engineered sewer monsters?
Pokemon?
Posted by: Erik | July 2, 2009 10:55 AM
It reminds me of a slime mold, only weirder an bulgier and faster-moving.
Posted by: Jeroen Metselaar | July 2, 2009 10:56 AM
Awwwwww, cute!
Where can I get one?
Posted by: Magnus | July 2, 2009 10:57 AM
Zerg!
Posted by: Martin Christensen | July 2, 2009 11:00 AM
#14:
Protolawyer?
Martin
Posted by: J | July 2, 2009 11:02 AM
Definitely the product of a certain scumbug lawyer/politician/dying-wife cheating-dirtbag... none other than John Edwards
Posted by: Ubbo-Sathath | July 2, 2009 11:03 AM
Dammit! I told the kids no more spooking sewer workers.
Posted by: greg | July 2, 2009 11:04 AM
If I'd known that such things were living in Raleigh, I never would have left to move to DC in search of such lower lifeforms.
Posted by: Paul from NH | July 2, 2009 11:04 AM
Hm. Yeah, could be a zerg, but it might also be a shoggoth. Either way, it could be dangerous to wait until it grows up to find out...
Posted by: Desert Son
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July 2, 2009 11:05 AM
Clearly, this is the early stages of either that ancient foe of the Elder Things—a flying polyp—or it's a nascent shoggoth soon to erupt in a plastic writhing mass to wreak havoc on the the surrounding area.
But perhaps it'll clean out the local ghoul problem . . . .
Iä! Iä! Cthulhu!
No kings,
Robert
Posted by: Stanton
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July 2, 2009 11:08 AM
Colonies of tubifex worms: I've seen them pulse like that whenever I took clumps of them out of the water
to play withto feed other pets with.Posted by: Luke | July 2, 2009 11:17 AM
Well crap ... now I'm not gonna be able to shop for groceries at the Cameron Village Harris Teeter without getting a creepy crawly feeling.
Posted by: LMR
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July 2, 2009 11:18 AM
According to this story
http://www.news14.com/content/local_news/triangle/611427/raleigh--sewer-creature--surprises-city-officials/Default.aspx
they say they have already confirmed they are tubifex worms.
Definitely creepy looking.
Posted by: Glen Davidson
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July 2, 2009 11:18 AM
Wait, wait a minute, I think it's Pat Buchanan, a bit worse for wear.
It looks like what would have written that collection of oozing shit that was linked here recently.
Glen D
http://tinyurl.com/mxaa3p
Posted by: Marc Morgenstern | July 2, 2009 11:18 AM
Ray Comfort?
Posted by: Dave | July 2, 2009 11:19 AM
Heh... Well the Sewer people seem to think its tubifex worms. Check out the local news.
http://www.news14.com/content/local_news/triangle/611427/raleigh--sewer-creature--surprises-city-officials/Default.aspx
And, ya I did come across the above link from the io comments.
Posted by: Bill | July 2, 2009 11:19 AM
The BLOB Lives...
Posted by: Darren Garrison | July 2, 2009 11:21 AM
Worms? Pshaw. Those are obviously the larva of these things:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oPxa3C3iu0
Posted by: JefFlyingV | July 2, 2009 11:21 AM
Can't be a dino turd, much too large.
Posted by: Dave | July 2, 2009 11:22 AM
Shoot... beat by 1 min w/ the link.
Posted by: AAB | July 2, 2009 11:32 AM
Is it just me or does it look like a nipple?
Posted by: John Mark | July 2, 2009 11:32 AM
Haha, next time I'm at the library there, I'm going to have this temptation to poke around in the sewer.
Yes, and it's definitely John Edwards' fault.
Posted by: daveau
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July 2, 2009 11:35 AM
I, for one, welcome our new tubificid overlords...
Posted by: JHS
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July 2, 2009 11:38 AM
Why do I have the sinking feeling that a plague of tiny Jesse Helmses are about to be hatched...
Posted by: AAB | July 2, 2009 11:38 AM
Is it just me or does it look like a nipple?
Posted by: AAB | July 2, 2009 11:40 AM
Is it just me or does it look like a nipple?
Posted by: Happy Tentacles
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July 2, 2009 11:44 AM
I'm sure it was in an episode of 'Doctor Who' in about 1975.
Posted by: Qwerty | July 2, 2009 11:45 AM
AAB @ # 38 and 39 - It looks like a nipple to me too until you start the video.
Posted by: Ouchimoo | July 2, 2009 11:46 AM
HOLY! Those graphics are Awesome! I can't wait to get my hands on that FPS!
All kidding aside, that is freaky! I can't imagine what the reaction was by the people who discovered that.
Posted by: Barklikeadog | July 2, 2009 11:53 AM
Yeah, but do you fry or grille?
Posted by: Blondin | July 2, 2009 11:53 AM
Where's Quatermass when you need him?
Posted by: Rev. Bigdumbchimp | July 2, 2009 11:53 AM
And for despised NC figure, insert John Edwards. Nobody likes him. Nobody ever really did.
hello Jesse helms
Posted by: Felix | July 2, 2009 11:54 AM
All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom,
He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid,
Who made the spikey urchin,
Who made the sharks, He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.
AMEN.
©Monty Python
Posted by: Becky | July 2, 2009 11:56 AM
Add some fur and BAM you have Tribbles, take them to sci-fi conventions and sell them to Star Trek fans.
Posted by: featheredfrog | July 2, 2009 12:05 PM
It seems the video has been on the wikipedia page for Tubifex tubifex for some time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubifex_tubifex
Posted by: Doc | July 2, 2009 12:08 PM
Um, guys, this is *clearly* a failed attempt at creating a Dalek-Human hybrid. I'm honestly surprised no one has sequenced the genome and recognized the planet of origin. The morphology just screams 'Skaro'.
Posted by: Michael | July 2, 2009 12:29 PM
@Rev. Bigdumbchimp (#45)
Surprisingly, some people did like Jesse Helms. He was continually re-elected. John Edwards was only elected by North Carolinians once, beating Lauch Faircloth.
Posted by: Darren Garrison | July 2, 2009 12:30 PM
I donno-- the last Dalek-Human hybrid I saw looked like a guy wearing an octopus for a hat-- like in the second from last panel in this Japanese scroll:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14668359/Scroll-Panels-From-the-Tale-of-Fujiwara-Hidesato
Posted by: Randomfactor | July 2, 2009 12:35 PM
Whatever it is is now among the top three likely Republican nominees for President in 2012 by attrition alone.
Posted by: Peter Ashby | July 2, 2009 12:38 PM
Yes, this why you are recommended to wash live tubifex under clean running water before feeding them to your pet fishes. There are aquarists who won't touch live tubifex because of the disease potential. They live in some very nasty places and will form dense, pulsating aggregates. It is sad how once common knowledge is fading away . . .
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 2, 2009 12:41 PM
bryozoans?
why would somebody think that?
Posted by: Robert S. | July 2, 2009 12:43 PM
They found Newt Gingrich's soul!
Posted by: Der Bruno Stroszek | July 2, 2009 12:45 PM
It sucks that the Rutans have invaded our sewers, but at least it means there'll be no more Sontaran invasions.
Posted by: strangebeasty | July 2, 2009 12:45 PM
Oh wow! I used to see little colonies of tubifex worms in a drainage ditch near my home! I always wondered what those things were!
Posted by: Intelligent Designer | July 2, 2009 12:49 PM
Would you guys believe that Jesse Jones from King 5 news just contacted me about one of my blog entries and is doing a segment on the topic tonight?
Posted by: Alyson Miers | July 2, 2009 12:51 PM
I blame Liddy Dole.
Posted by: matt | July 2, 2009 1:01 PM
at the end of the video you can see one of the worms come out of the mass and then it quickly goes back into it
Posted by: Eamon Knight | July 2, 2009 1:10 PM
When we were keeping tropical fish, we used to feed them freeze-dried tubifex (which came in little cubes, making the name "cubifex" irresistible). We got some live ones from the aquarium shop once. Once. They were pretty disgusting to deal with, especially when they died and looked and smelled like an unflushed toilet used by someone with diarrhea.
Posted by: Fred the Hun
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July 2, 2009 1:10 PM
Jeroen Metselaar @16,
Your local aquarium store may have them.
Posted by: Tophe | July 2, 2009 1:18 PM
You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Posted by: Mu | July 2, 2009 1:23 PM
This video needed to end with a big splat on the lens, and a remark that the camera was found the next day in an empty sewer, with no sign of the camera operator, or the blobs.
Posted by: Phodopus
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July 2, 2009 1:24 PM
Nice! Give them another few dozen millenia and they might just evolve in some kind of colonial lifeform like portugese men-of-war. It already looks like they really feel comfy in a slimy blob, they seem to be able to move as a collective, I wonder if they can also eat and reproduce like this...
Posted by: Epikt
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July 2, 2009 1:25 PM
Are we looking at the Pharyngula Dungeon?
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 2, 2009 1:35 PM
Sure. Some people liked David Duke too.
I'm from NC, campaigned for Harvey Gantt twice, so I know.
Some people liked Edwards too. Fortunately, not a lot.
Posted by: Sili
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July 2, 2009 1:39 PM
I love the fact that there are people who can look at that stuff and then just go "Yeah, nifty. Those are tubifeces. Now what's all this hubbub then?"
Posted by: Art | July 2, 2009 1:47 PM
I'm no expert but they supposedly aren't uncommon to sewers in Mexico as reported at:
http://www.gsas.org/Articles/1997/tubifex.html
"Tubifex were once commonly collected in open sewers in Mexico because they thrive in polluted waters with high aeration and good circulation. These days, most Tubifex come from Worm Farmers or from trout or salmon hatcheries, where they are collected from the race-way effluent."
They are used as fish food, sold live, and bred to sell to people keeping fish. Looks like a batch sold as fish food got flushed or someone got careless washing down their tubifex breeding tank.
Then again there are medical centers that are reported to grind and treat, usually with bleach, their waste. If a tumor was to be ground up, wasn't killed by the bleach, and was washed into the sewer ...
In eighteen years it slithers out of the sewer and demands the right to vote.
I for one welcome "Amorphous Americans".
Posted by: Andy Steinberg | July 2, 2009 1:49 PM
Hi Mom!
Posted by: naturalist | July 2, 2009 2:01 PM
It's something that escaped a test tube from one of the big pharma labs in RTP(Research Triangle Park),NC
Posted by: littlejohn | July 2, 2009 2:26 PM
Don't give it water after midnight!
Posted by: Cyrock | July 2, 2009 2:34 PM
Clit
Posted by: MikeS29
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July 2, 2009 2:42 PM
Not sure what this means, but my nutsack made the EXACT movements while watching that thing...
I'm sure we can all agree it is the second coming of our lord and savior jesus christ what the hell was that!!!
Posted by: Geoff | July 2, 2009 2:45 PM
Festering pile of lowlife worms I dub thee The Discovery Institute.
Posted by: jody | July 2, 2009 2:45 PM
Kill it with fire now, plz.
Kthxbai.
Posted by: Steanshovelmama | July 2, 2009 3:07 PM
56 - you are absolutely right, it is definitely a Rutan scout... just not glowing green at this present moment.
And damn you! I was going to post that first!
Posted by: Nangleator | July 2, 2009 3:10 PM
I'm reminded of John Carpenter's The Thing.
On second thought, it makes me want to reach for my boom stick.
Posted by: The Tim Channel
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July 2, 2009 3:19 PM
Worm orgy on film
Provokes a nutsack comment
Not sure what that says
Enjoy.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/07/01/fioreround.DTL
Posted by: William | July 2, 2009 3:21 PM
Aw shit, it's the thing from The Thing! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
Posted by: J. A. Baker | July 2, 2009 3:24 PM
North Carolina, hell. More like Pennsylvania State Sen. John Eichelberger's colonoscopy!
Posted by: Nichole | July 2, 2009 3:26 PM
lulz @ # 52.
Maybe the thing was what made Sanford confuse Argentina with the Appalachian trail. And hiking with fucking a mistress. Clearly, the force is strong with this thing.
Posted by: alreadydead | July 2, 2009 3:31 PM
Zerg rush incoming, bunker up!
Posted by: Carpworld | July 2, 2009 3:34 PM
Clearly these are juvenile C.H.U.D.s, no?
Posted by: jennyxyzzy | July 2, 2009 3:37 PM
Yeah, I thought I recognised Kenny about 35 seconds in... And was that FtK over on the right in the third blob???
Posted by: Barry | July 2, 2009 3:46 PM
I used to make extra money collecting these and selling them to tropical fish stores. But that was when I was younger, I’m to old to go down in the sewers and sewage ponds anymore. Besides, my girlfriend at the time put a stop to it – “You put your hands on that crap just one more time and you’ll never touch me again!”
Posted by: blf | July 2, 2009 3:47 PM
Tubifex worms? That isn't a puppy dog? What have I been tortuing most Sunday mornings whilst waiting for the babies to finish cooking…?
Posted by: Watchman | July 2, 2009 3:53 PM
Robert S. FTW:
Posted by: Sili
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July 2, 2009 3:55 PM
Speaking of colonoscopies - when are you liveblogging yours, PZed?
Posted by: Phil | July 2, 2009 3:59 PM
OT: VenomfangX is appearing on jessewoodrow.com in 2 minutes
Posted by: litlejohn | July 2, 2009 4:29 PM
When I was single, several centuries ago, I woke up next to...Oh god, you don't want to know. Alcohol was involved.
Posted by: ragarth | July 2, 2009 4:30 PM
Quick! Call the Priest! I thought I saw a jesus silhouette in that thing!
Posted by: landrew | July 2, 2009 4:42 PM
fetal CHUD?
Posted by: AdjacentOrigin | July 2, 2009 4:52 PM
ZERG! No wait,it's Rush Limbaugh! He has regressed into an earlier form of gestation. I'm not at all surprised to find him in a sewer though.
Posted by: Uerba | July 2, 2009 5:06 PM
I know this isn't related to the above topic, but I felt that this was the best place to ask anyway. Sorry...
Anyway, a question: During a recent venture to a certain nationally famous book store's science section, I noticed two copies of the "science" book, "The design of life" , sitting on the shelf. Who should I complain to?
Posted by: Dr.Woody
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July 2, 2009 5:09 PM
It's Rupert Murdoch's sense of taste...
Posted by: Elwood Herring | July 2, 2009 5:23 PM
Just don't lean over it, that's all I'm sayin'...
Posted by: randy | July 2, 2009 5:41 PM
It took 73 comments to get to my first impression; could have something to do with the dominant demographic of PZ's blog.
Posted by: Mark Mobley | July 2, 2009 5:50 PM
Anyone seen the Andromeda Strain? That looks quite disturbingly similar. If it is we're all screwed...
Posted by: Rodger T NZ
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July 2, 2009 5:51 PM
I thought they had finally found GwB`s brain.
Were the contractions a reaction to the cameras light?
Posted by: 'Tis Himself
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July 2, 2009 5:53 PM
For those of you who've ever worked aboard a ship, you'd know that is a larval bilge monster.
Posted by: kody_frog | July 2, 2009 6:15 PM
Ewwww, so gross! SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ggggggrrrrrrrrrrooooooooossssssssss!
Posted by: Badger3k | July 2, 2009 6:16 PM
Does anybody know where Rush Limbaugh was when this was photographed?
Posted by: Owlmirror | July 2, 2009 6:33 PM
Speaking of shoggoths and zoology, this interestingly creepy novelette is a Hugo nominee:
http://www.elizabethbear.com/shoggoths.html
("Oracupoda horibilis, the common surf shoggoth")
Posted by: robotaholic
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July 2, 2009 6:42 PM
Hey look it's Sally Kern's FACE
Posted by: Lily | July 2, 2009 6:45 PM
It's awesome! I'm going to stop cleaning my kitchen sink and see if I can grow one. My roommate will probably hate it, though.
Posted by: ginckgo | July 2, 2009 7:18 PM
Certainly doesn't look like any freshwater bryozoan.
From the link that #26 provided:
"But N.C. State University biology professor Tom Kwak said it may not be a group of worms.
"I think it's a colony of bryozoans," Kwak said. "They are small animals like a hydra that live together in colonies, and they stick out tentacles to feed. And when they're disturbed, they withdraw into small tubes that they built."
Kwak said the bryozoans aren't dirty and don't carry diseases, and they don't bite or sting.
"There's really no reason to clear them out unless they become an issue of clogging the sewer pipe," he said."
Hydra?!? Not even remotely related to Bryozoa. And Phylactolaemate bryozoans are gelatinous colonies that do not have the string-like structures that move in the video.
Can anyone off the street get a professorship in the US?
Freshwater bryozoa are a major problem if they infest your drinking water system though. Their 'spore' (statoblasts) are just about indestructible, and they quickly clog up all the pipes and machinery.
Posted by: Lewis Thomason | July 2, 2009 7:18 PM
Simple The designer produces another ID defender.
Posted by: James F | July 2, 2009 7:21 PM
"Villains!" I shrieked, "dissemble no more! I admit the deed! - tear up the planks! here, here! - It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
Posted by: damnedyankee | July 2, 2009 7:23 PM
Relaxed in the throes of oxycontin-induced bliss, Rush Limbaugh loses control and reverts to his natural form...
Posted by: littlejohn | July 2, 2009 7:45 PM
Hasn't anyone else noticed we're getting counter-crashed at the previous poll posting?
We're losing badly. This can't happen.
Please, get those vote-bots going!
Can we really let "Evolution is a myth" win overwhelmingly? It's happening!
Posted by: littlejohn | July 2, 2009 8:09 PM
@pzdumb:
Please learn how to spell "you're." Asshole.
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 2, 2009 8:13 PM
uh-oh.
Mabus is loose.
Posted by: Strangel
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July 2, 2009 8:14 PM
Yeah.. um.. to the freakish owner of comments #112-114; Go outside. Take a walk. Breathe in some fresh air. I think you might be suffering from a little lack of oxygen... well... could be education as well. Try reading (outside).
Posted by: Wowbagger, OM | July 2, 2009 8:18 PM
Don't feed the troll.
Posted by: 'Tis Himself
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July 2, 2009 8:19 PM
Mabus has chewed through the leather straps again and is posting. Please ignore.
Posted by: ScottB | July 2, 2009 8:25 PM
I bet they vote Republican...
Posted by: Carlie | July 2, 2009 8:36 PM
Having Flashblocker means I don't have to look at it at all; I just see a little blue triangle that I am NOT GOING TO CLICK ON.
Posted by: Gra | July 2, 2009 9:08 PM
So when a christian says "Look around you at the trees, the birds, the flowers, how can you not believe it was create by god?" I can reply with 2 words: "Tubifex worms".
Posted by: LordJiro | July 2, 2009 9:14 PM
That looks disturbingly like one of the infection-bulges from Prototype.
Posted by: Finganforn | July 2, 2009 9:17 PM
I'm glad this isn't available in Smell-O-Vision.
Posted by: Azkyroth | July 2, 2009 9:24 PM
So, is the Republican party grooming it as a challenger for Kay Hagan's senate seat yet?
Posted by: chuckgoecke
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July 2, 2009 9:35 PM
Looks like some ungodly spawn, the result of hybridization between Annelids and higher forms, and they seem capable of moving up and out of the sewers(shudder). Looks like I ought to find a different way of disposing of my excess DNA; maybe now I can convince my wife to help me out with that.
Posted by: tresmal | July 2, 2009 9:59 PM
For Chrissakes Mabus take the pills the nice nurse lady is trying to give you. They will make the voices stop.
Posted by: Notagod | July 2, 2009 10:20 PM
It looks like Jesus sucking it.
Suck it Jesus!
Posted by: wagonjak | July 2, 2009 10:26 PM
That's gotta be Harry Reid's one shrunken ball scrotum!
Posted by: Chris Swanson | July 2, 2009 10:33 PM
I keep expecting a face-hugger to pop out at any moment...
Posted by: MormonMissionary | July 2, 2009 10:34 PM
Harry Reid is of my faith (Mormon), as is Mitt Romney.
Posted by: Angel Kaida | July 2, 2009 10:41 PM
James F, THANK YOU. That made me grin so much.
Posted by: another | July 2, 2009 10:41 PM
I notice that one of the species of tubifex worms is called Tubifex longipenis.
Undoubtedly a good friend of Biggus Dickus and Incontentia Buttocks.
Posted by: another | July 2, 2009 10:46 PM
Oh, and pzdumb? There is no hell. Stop wasting your life worrying about it.
Posted by: Steve_C | July 2, 2009 10:54 PM
I'm having a stiff bourbon in honor of your Mormon faith. Bottoms up!
Posted by: Christopher Guerra | July 2, 2009 11:05 PM
It's The Real MICHEAL JACKSON! STOP HIM BEFORE HE GETS AWAY
Posted by: Christopher Guerra | July 2, 2009 11:08 PM
It's The Real MICHEAL JACKSON! STOP HIM BEFORE HE GETS AWAY
Posted by: genesgalore | July 2, 2009 11:18 PM
red rover, red rover: send prep H right over. Ain't that right, pzdumber???
Posted by: Rey Fox | July 3, 2009 12:03 AM
"Harry Reid is of my faith (Mormon), as is Mitt Romney."
That's nice, dear.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 3, 2009 12:09 AM
Depeche mode is the worst band ever.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 3, 2009 12:12 AM
What type of holes do you prefer?
the a hole is nasty
Posted by: Rey Fox | July 3, 2009 12:15 AM
That's nice, dear.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 3, 2009 12:21 AM
Who you jiving with that cosmic debris?
Posted by: Sven DiMilo | July 3, 2009 12:43 AM
Nice clip, Rev. The band is the Aug/Sep 1973 unit; as shown here, the last tour with Ponty.
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 3, 2009 12:53 AM
Going to see Zappa plays Zappa day after my birfday here in Chuck Town.
2nd row center. Pretty fired up
Posted by: Rev. BigDumbChimp | July 3, 2009 1:20 AM
More from that show
Just me and the pygmy pony
Good example of what a guitar bad ass Zappa was
Zappa's not dead, he just smells funny.
Posted by: pseudostratified | July 3, 2009 1:36 AM
I can't believe it. The sign I've been waiting for. This proves the Flying Spaghetti Monster is real!
Posted by: AttemptingReason | July 3, 2009 1:53 AM
Reminds me of the game System Shock 2. Don't let the brain eating annelids get you!
Posted by: Muzz | July 3, 2009 2:20 AM
Geek insult coinage go! "You ambulatory colony of Tubifex Worms!" "Didn't I see you sucking on a drain wall" "I wouldn't come near you with a sewer survey robot!"et cetera.
Get thee to the local Tshirt-you'll-only-wear-once concern, stat.
Posted by: Charlie Foxtrot
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July 3, 2009 2:27 AM
Hmmm... tubiflex worms, eh? Very interesting, yes...
...
...I say we take off, and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Posted by: Lyvvie | July 3, 2009 4:43 AM
Bad enough worrying about toilet snakes, but now there are CHUDS trying to reach out and touch our bums!!
Posted by: Nick | July 3, 2009 5:01 AM
Am I the only one who had to think of those carnivorous creatures hanging from the ceilings at Half-Life?
Posted by: Rorschach | July 3, 2009 5:47 AM
Hehe, you beat me to it...:-)
Love the rorschaching going on about them too.
Posted by: hillbilly78 | July 3, 2009 8:52 AM
If I believed in such things I would swear it was the reincarnation of Jerry Falwell.
Posted by: Somnolent Aphid | July 3, 2009 9:27 AM
getting kind of turned on.
Posted by: sornord | July 3, 2009 9:36 AM
Definitely not in a sewer. Look at the water flowing. This is an extreme close-up of something small in...something.
Posted by: BlueIndependent
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July 3, 2009 10:06 AM
I have never heard of tubifex worms before, and based on the basic observations offered so far, they appear to be the plausible answer. My human proclivities want to exclaim "eww! gross!" but this is the kind of sighting one doesn't often see happening out in the open.
Posted by: IST | July 3, 2009 10:10 AM
No no no.. that's Richard Burr (R) NC, writing belligerent responses to constituent emails...
Posted by: Janeothejungle | July 3, 2009 1:42 PM
Anyone else not sleep well last night? Strange pulsating aliens seemed to intrude into my subconscious....
Posted by: Alan Kellogg | July 3, 2009 1:59 PM
Now we know what Loren Coleman and PZ Myers have in common besides Darren Naish, an inordinate fascination with animated sewer ick.
Posted by: Monado | July 3, 2009 5:31 PM
Three guesses:
* The monster that devoured Cleveland
* The next GOP candidate for President now that Sarah Palin has admitted can't take the heat and Mark Sanford has been exposed as a hypocritical adulterer
* A fugitive from A. E. Van Vogt's The War Against the Rull
Posted by: Keippernicus | July 3, 2009 11:45 PM
God damn it I saw that crap on youtube and thought to myself "Man I cannot wait until that crap gets fileted on Pharyngula and PZ has something mean to say about my state."
Be nice man, we got a lot of atheists down here in charlotte and whatever that crap was I promise I did not flush it down the drain in order to plague some local pentecostals.
I promise.
Posted by: Justin | July 4, 2009 2:58 PM
Yeah, first thing I thought of was The Many from System Shock 2.
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Posted by: Kat | July 9, 2009 3:29 AM
Hmmmm...if this was filmed in April, why hasn't anyone seen it before now? And, if it's been that long, why hasn't anyone gone down there, brought up a specimen and sliced it open to see if it really is a ball of slimy worms? I have an idea, send Mike Rowe down there for a special episode of Dirty Jobs or something!!!
Posted by: transitionaform | July 9, 2009 11:59 AM
Ray Comfort? Amazing how dog made this creature so perfectly suited to life in sewer lines.
Posted by: TransitionalForm | July 9, 2009 12:01 PM
Ray Comfort? Amazing how dog made this creature so perfectly suited to life in sewer lines.