We were arguing about this on IO9 yesterday. I still say it's viral video, possibly for that District 9 movie, which seems to have a largish ARG behind it. Also, as His Holiness points out, there does appear to be some kind of string or wire tugging on that last pustule thing at about the 1:55 mark in the video.
Who knew that improperly sealed sewer pipe joints would be end of mankind? I did. It was right there in the job specifications for the Cameron Village Sewer Main Extension. Nobody reads them.
According to this link: [deepseanews.com] (currently being murdered with traffic by the entire internet), it's a clump of worms:
"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."
@malphigian: I can't relax until I get an explanation for the retractable spike the last one has. Because otherwise I can only assume it's full of a toxin that liquefies its prey for easy digestion.
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Who did the lighting?
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I will no longer assume she's glimpsed a rat.
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HamNo, we need a better name for these monsters. "Carolina Contracting Clumps" is just not catchy.
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well, I guess they're already IN the gutter...
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Can we kill it with cold, or a Kevin Dillon mullet?!
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"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."
Sounds science-y and plausible, I dunno.
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Go look at 1:57 and then tell me this is plausible and science-y.
Man. People are gullible.
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