… starting with a North Carolina sewer.

I’d rather have Ewoks invade the earth

I have an aquarium, and the first thing I thought when I saw this video was: “wow, that looks just like a giant mass of worms” and it was confirmed during a short Google search. It’s funny stuff: it almost seems liquid or pudding-like, when half-emerged in water. When not, you realise that it’s not something most people would like for dessert. Fish love it though.

Google this, it will take you on a great journey meeting conspiracy nuts (”Well, duh, of course the government and scientists will say it’s worms! They would hardly say it if there really was an alien life-form down there, would they?”, “Everyone stock up on supplies! Aliens are hatching!”), commentators that are delighted that their favourite games and movies seem to have come to life (”omg! Resident Evil!” “It looks like the stuff on the walls of Silent Hill!” “Halo3! Kill it with your spiker!” “Zerg!” “Kill it, it might drop loot!”) and people that are simply disgusted (”Eww! I didn’t want to see pig intestines!” “Well… Thanks. I puked.”)

For anyone who doesn’t want to Google ‘disgusting blobs of pinkish-brown goo’:
It looks weird and hardly ever as worms. More often then not, clumped together they resemble a blob of reddish brown to black pudding. And it moves, jiggles, and seems to contract.

The ‘creature’ in the video is called Tubifex tubifex, and you can get it at your local aquarium store. Buy it, cultivate it, make a video and post it on YouTube. Watch people freak.

The thing that amazes me most is that someone apparently thought it a good idea to lower a camera into a sewer, and to post the footage on YouTube. Now that‘s gross.