Strange Sewer Creature...

[supervike]

For you biologists out there...

Is this something real or a \'internet viral video\'?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELoqZiamr4E

It\'s bizarre, and disgusting.

 

[Mosch]

Starcraft 2? Cloverfield 2?

And for the record: I think it\'s a viral video.

 

[darklord]

looks fake to me but it is well done if it is

 

[Necroghast]

My god that is disgusting.

 

[darklord]

he\'s not that bad - he did show us the link after all!

 

[BPI]

\"It\'s bizarre, and disgusting\"

Cheers for the warning, I\'ve not watched it lol

Still a bit too freaked out by these two...

http://www.mainlymedieval.com/ozpainters/viewtopic.php?t=2372
http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/viewthread.php?tid=33341

B.

 

[Roger Bunting]

Apparently it\'s something called a tubifex worm, or rather a group of them. They\'re normally found at the edge of rivers in the soil or whatever.

 

[Niall]

Wow those look strange!

 

[darklord]

so its real?! man i hought they were fake!

 

[Kegge]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8EoEOSje28

I got bored

 

[No Such Agency]

I\'d be very surprised if this was real, I don\'t recognize it as any life form I\'ve ever heard of. Also, it pushes too many \"movie creature\" buttons, lol

/biologist

 

[Undave]

Yeah it\'s likely to be some kind of encysted worm, if not one of the Tubifacidae, then something similar. That pipe looks to have quite a small diameter so those cysts are probably less than a quarter of an inch across. No cause for mahusive sewer beasty panic just yet lol

 

[darklord]

Originally posted by Undave
Yeah it\'s likely to be some kind of encysted worm, if not one of the Tubifacidae, then something similar. That pipe looks to have quite a small diameter so those cysts are probably less than a quarter of an inch across. No cause for mahusive sewer beasty panic just yet lol

depends, maybe they \'re just the giant sewer beasts sperm

 

[Roger Bunting]

http://gizmodo.com/5305380/disgusting-sewer-creature-update-its-fing-real

 

[Dragon Forge Design]

Cloverfield 2 is in production...

Take it as you wish..

 

[ScottRadom]

Well that is gross. Cool news about Cloverfield 2. Loved that show for the throwback to everything I loved abotu Godzilla.

If it was a viral campaign, it\'s a brilliant way to start!

 

[supervike]

Originally posted by ScottRadom
Well that is gross. Cool news about Cloverfield 2. Loved that show for the throwback to everything I loved abotu Godzilla.

If it was a viral campaign, it\'s a brilliant way to start!

The only bad thing about Viral Campaigns, is that I find them about a year after the \'event\' has come and gone....

I liked Cloverfield too!

 

[Trevor]

It is worms...

RALEIGH – Public utility officials have solved the mystery behind a purported \"sewer creature\" seen in an online video taken under Cameron Village in Raleigh.

Local bloggers at New Raleigh picked up on the YouTube video after it was posted on the Gawker science fiction blog io9.com. The video shows a sewer camera inspecting a pipe under Cameron Village on April 27. The camera stops to focus on several pulsing sacs clinging to the crevices in the pipe.


A YouTube video shows this worm colony in the sewer lines under Cameron Village. Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator at the Raleigh Public Utilities Department, said staff biologists have confirmed that the \"creature\" is actually a colony of tubifex worms. The colonies attach themselves to roots that gradually work themselves into weak points in the pipes.

\"They seem to respond to the light from the camera,\" Buchan said. \"That light is pretty hot.\"

 

[supervike]

Very very bizarre....

It reminds me of the HUNTER in HALO, which are supposedly an entire colony of worms banded together to form a creature...

 

[Roger Bunting]

I could have sworn I mentioned they were tubifex...maybe I was mistaken.