Larv Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 YouTube - Unknown Lifeform in North Carolina Sewer! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKpx2DxGwY&feature=haxa_popt00us01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfiniteNow Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 A biologist at the University of Minnesota seems to think the suggestion that it is a colony of either tubifex worms or bryozoans sounds reasonable. And, according to this story, they've confirmed the tubifex worms hypothesis. Here's the wiki on those things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubifex_tubifex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larv Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 A biologist at the University of Minnesota seems to think the suggestion that it is a colony of either tubifex worms or bryozoans sounds reasonable. And, according to this story, they've confirmed the tubifex worms hypothesis. Here's the wiki on those things: Tubifex tubifex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaI just spotted it today on youtube, so it may be old news. I like the tubifix hypothesis; didn't know that bryozoans were as mobile. Like everyone else, I suppose, I had to recall that old sci-fi movie "The Blob". I think it came out of the sewers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lemit Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 I'm not sure what it is. Maybe there are some medical people around here who can tell me. But first I have to ask: is this a joke that everybody else is in on? Is this some kind of initiation everybody has to go through? I don't like being left out, being laughed at, so please let me know. Nobody? Well, I guess I'm just going to have to assume there might be somebody else who didn't get the message. I don't care how it's labelled. That isn't a sewer, unless the sewers in North Carolina have a habit of moving. I'm pretty sure that if we took Occam's razor to it, it would bleed. That's because the video is a scope of some internal organ. That's where I want help from somebody medical. I thought at first it was a scope of colon polyps, but the proportions and the scale didn't seem right, so I don't know. The only thing I can say definitely about the video is that the only relationship it has to a sewer is if it really is a colonoscopy. --lemit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercedes Benzene Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 The only thing I can say definitely about the video is that the only relationship it has to a sewer is if it really is a colonoscopy. It looks like a sewer to me. Look at > :34 You can see that it's a segmented pipe. It's not an internal organ. It's definitely suburban infrastructure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Tubifex worms no doubt, bryozoans require too much oxygen to grow under those conditions into large colonies. I found a large colony of bryozoans a few days ago in a lake spillway, they do not move to the naked eye. I feed my fish tubifex and black worms, they often appear to be a larger organism at first glance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larv Posted July 3, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 I didn't know that tubufex worms massed up like that, appearing to be members of a colony with a slimy protective coating. The lateral extensions move with the main mass, almost like tentacles of a single organism. Bryozoans that I know about don't move like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted July 3, 2009 Report Share Posted July 3, 2009 Larv, you are correct Bryozoans do not appear to move at all to the naked eye. But this is indeed tubifex worms, the worms are less than 1mm thick often more hair like and they do indeed move in mass in response to stimuli, especially the heat from the light source. the film does not have the resolution to show the worms as individuals that why they seem to be a film instead of a moving mass of worms. I've seen tubifex worms in large masses and they do indeed look like a large ball of slime, only separating out as individual when you look closely or the worms fatten up as they shorten their length. Either that or we are being invaded by excrement eating aliens who are coming to get us through our toilets.... Galapagos 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallenrm Posted October 8, 2009 Report Share Posted October 8, 2009 I think the readers of this thread may like to go through a thread in a similar issue, the thread is entitled Floating stones in Ram setu. It is about the so called floating stones that were similarly reported for an ancient bridge between Rameshwaram in India and Sri Lanka. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stereologist Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 These certainly are not floating stones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallenrm Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Yes, but they very well may be like tubifex worms cited in this thread! Can't they be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moontanman Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 Yes, but they very well may be like tubifex worms cited in this thread! Can't they be? I don't understand what you are saying, please explain. i have seen rocks that float, pumice floats, I've seen quite large chunks of it float. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hallenrm Posted October 10, 2009 Report Share Posted October 10, 2009 What i am trying to convey is how often people can be duped, When it is claimed that stones are floating, the common perception is about granite stones not pumic stones. So it is perceived to be strange. When someone views a video posted on U tube, one cannot make out what kind of stones they are. Video images can be very deceptive, as they may be in the present case! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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