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cowofdoom78963

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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #30 on: July 01, 2009, 10:56:43 am »

None of these links work...

Its as if... someone is trying to cover it up! :o
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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #31 on: July 01, 2009, 01:25:20 pm »

Backup link/video:
http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/creatures-from-the-sewer/

Thanks this link works at least...holy cow, this creautre is really disgusting.. :-X :o
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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #32 on: July 01, 2009, 01:31:39 pm »

Backup link/video:
http://deepseanews.com/2009/06/creatures-from-the-sewer/

It looks like a very, very, very diseased human genitalia.
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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #33 on: July 01, 2009, 04:58:28 pm »

You could have kept that thought to yourself >:(

None of you have obviously ever heard of a Shoggoth.
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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #34 on: July 01, 2009, 07:01:31 pm »

IF this is alien life, then why  hasn't it been on the news might i ask?
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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #35 on: July 01, 2009, 07:16:46 pm »

It's a collection of tubifex worms. Anyone who has bought and fed them to their pet fish would know. Basically, they need to cling onto something to survive (which usually is dirt) but in the sewers... not much dirt and soil. So they cling to each other. You can imagine that when one worm moves, the rest will move with it. That's what happens.

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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #36 on: July 01, 2009, 07:17:48 pm »

holy cow, this creautre is really disgusting.. :-X :o

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This is what Dr. Timothy S. Wood, an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association had to say about them.

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No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting.

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Re: strange, sewerdwelling creature
« Reply #37 on: July 01, 2009, 07:24:31 pm »

Certain sci-fi players will twitch at the word "annelid", even though it's quite a normal thing.
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