Now if whoever made that video really wanted to nauseate someone, they could have had the things extrude some kind of waste from some random holes.
BTW, did you guys know that a snail's anus is right beside its head? I was watching a snail crawl around once and thought that the hole near its head was for respiration. Boy was I surprised!
Still eating, BTW.
I think this is one of the grossest videos I've seen:
Now if whoever made that video really wanted to nauseate someone, they could have had the things extrude some kind of waste from some random holes.
BTW, did you guys know that a snail's anus is right beside its head? I was watching a snail crawl around once and thought that the hole near its head was for respiration. Boy was I surprised!
Still eating, BTW.
It is disappointing to me that I don't recall the name for the type of developement cycle that snails go through where their body turns over on itself making the head right next to the anus. Something like tourniquet but I am failing to find it online.
Torsion. It's a characteristic of mollusc species, particularly aquatic ones.
Well if they are bryozoa then what's in the video is a massive clump of millimeter-long animals, not some huge organy mass. Like a coral reef as imagined by H.P. Lovecraft.
Now if whoever made that video really wanted to nauseate someone, they could have had the things extrude some kind of waste from some random holes.
BTW, did you guys know that a snail's anus is right beside its head? I was watching a snail crawl around once and thought that the hole near its head was for respiration. Boy was I surprised!
Still eating, BTW.
It is disappointing to me that I don't recall the name for the type of developement cycle that snails go through where their body turns over on itself making the head right next to the anus. Something like tourniquet but I am failing to find it online.
Torsion. It's a characteristic of mollusc species, particularly aquatic ones.
It seems like that video is just a scale model of a sewer system, especially when looking at the way the water flows. This is coming from a dude who works in special effects.
Although nothing about the organisms themselves stick out as CG, yet I wouldn't exactly be blown away if they were.
So which is worse, believing something to be real only to find out later that it's fake, or thinking something is fake that later turns out to be real?
The big ones kind of look like a really slimy fruit, but the small ones in the sewer (assuming they are real) are a lot more disgusting. I hate when those veiny threads suck inwards when they shine light on it.
That is really cool. I must have watched too much Star Trek, though, because I didn't find it disgusting at all. I'd be thrilled to stumble across something so strange.
When I first saw the video, I thought it might be a slime mold—but that doesn't seem right given how it moves. Neither should it be a bryozoan colony, because as far as I have read they don't move like that or have the sort of visible tissue differentiation.
While researching I saw a comment that eventually led me to this site which seems to make a good case for the object being a clump of tubifex worms.
For reference, the worms are known to live in sewers and heavily polluted areas, to undulate almost rhythmically, and are about the right color. Some species are sold freeze-dried or fresh as food for aquarium fish.
Colonial invertebrates are by far the most terrifying beasts.
I haven't seen the video but if something is disgusting and claims to be a marine invertebrate it's probably real.
You're forgetting about the whole new levels up fucked-upititude that the arthropods can reach
Although invertebrates in general do have a way of provoking the "kill it with fire" response, and the creepy ones with no discernable symmetry are especially bad for it.
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When I was a little kid I always wanted to go exploring in the storm drains around my house.
Then I saw movies like Ghostbusters, Mimic, and The Thing, and started imagining shit like this living down there. Discovering that it really might be down there is not heartening.
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For some reason, that reminded me of this (PNSFW?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6IPjfgRkxk
Wouldn't have expected something like that to grow so big in the sewers though. So freaky.
I dont know what is more disturbing.
That they are real creatures, or that Bayou rednecks will just fish alien looking facehugger pods out of the swamp and play with them.
That was...um...much more disgusting than the first video.
Still didn't gag, though!
Obviously, you've never grown up in the Deep South.
Those two words don't go together.
How big is it though? It's hard to judge scale from the video, but I kind of assumed it was a pipe about 30cm wide.
EDIT: Also apparently the video is now private.
Because there are people who like watching them.
Also, because people put up videos of anything and everything.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnwDHavlq_M
(I have no idea what the hell that video is about)
Or youtube hates me, which probably isn't the worst thing.
edit: works now. ew.
Torsion. It's a characteristic of mollusc species, particularly aquatic ones.
A BLOG SAYS IT IS REAL! EVERYONE RUN!
....yeah no.
but they're listening to every word I say
Well if they are bryozoa then what's in the video is a massive clump of millimeter-long animals, not some huge organy mass. Like a coral reef as imagined by H.P. Lovecraft.
If it's real, i doubt it's anything new. Remember fungi/bacterium/bumps in the night grow in all sorts of weird places.
If it's a viral, eww.
Edit: Or maybe it does: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=bryozoa&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
And if people here live so close to these sewers why aren't they investigating?
Thank you. That was bugging me.
Um, because that video was the investigation? It was taken by a line-crawling robot that goes through sewers to investigate stuff. Like that.
Yes but that's the video that's in question.
Well some other person thats in Raleigh gets to go down there. It would be interesting, but honestly, I think Ill pass.
Although nothing about the organisms themselves stick out as CG, yet I wouldn't exactly be blown away if they were.
See, more in a sewer! Apparently there are over 8,000 species of them.
Even if it is special effects in the video, things like that exist.
That would make sense.
I haven't seen the video but if something is disgusting and claims to be a marine invertebrate it's probably real.
The whole sponge-blender thing freaks me right the fuck out.
I mean, it's cool, and I understand why it happens, but it's freaky-cool.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
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When I first saw the video, I thought it might be a slime mold—but that doesn't seem right given how it moves. Neither should it be a bryozoan colony, because as far as I have read they don't move like that or have the sort of visible tissue differentiation.
While researching I saw a comment that eventually led me to this site which seems to make a good case for the object being a clump of tubifex worms.
For reference, the worms are known to live in sewers and heavily polluted areas, to undulate almost rhythmically, and are about the right color. Some species are sold freeze-dried or fresh as food for aquarium fish.
I think it's a slimy clump of tubifex worms.
Although invertebrates in general do have a way of provoking the "kill it with fire" response, and the creepy ones with no discernable symmetry are especially bad for it.
Then I saw movies like Ghostbusters, Mimic, and The Thing, and started imagining shit like this living down there. Discovering that it really might be down there is not heartening.
imagine encountering an alien made of silicone plates and shit
he'd like at you and go "ewwww look at that sloppy flesh thing, all...sloughing all over the place."
try to have some empathy here.
To be fair, we are disgusting.
"So Paramedic, how do they taste?"
"...excuse me?"
"The bryozoa, how do they taste?"
"Uhh..."
"I mean they look a little like fruit, so they should taste pretty good, right?"
"...the hell is wrong with you?"