After a bit of googling, i found the following excerpt from Dr Timothy Wood:
"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."
I find the video disgusting.... and intriguing at the same time.... i think i should put a warning in the thread title
"I am accustomed to sleep and in my dreams to imagine the same things that lunatics imagine when awake." RD
Last edited by maroush; Aug 11th, 2009 at 04:29 PM..
After a bit of googling, i found the following excerpt from Dr Timothy Wood:
"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."
I find the video disgusting.... and intriguing at the same time.... i think i should put a warning in the thread title
That's the thing, i found a few guys arguing that they can't be tubicids, as the tubicids are only a few cm's long.
But then, i don't know how long or wide they are dimension wise.
And yes please, a warning would do. My own interiors are kinda winded up u know.
Last edited by maroush; Jul 15th, 2009 at 05:19 PM..
Oh so you also vomited? Interesting, this video is highly gross. It reminds me of hermophrodite worms we once saw live in the lab rubbing against each other to reproduce
Do you not know? North Carolinan Sewage is ultra toxic.... like radioactive toxic..... he/she probably thought it would terminate the suckers.... but they live and breathe as we speak....
A Raleigh Public Works engineer told TheDenverChannel the video is easily explained.
"They're a colony of tubifex worms," said Senior Project Engineer Mark Senior. "We've seen them before in sewer systems."
Senior said the video was shot "a couple of months ago" by a private contractor -- Malphrus Construction -- inspecting a private 6-inch sewer line that flushes into the city sewer system.
Since the video was posted on YouTube, and reposted around the world, his office has been fielding dozens of phone calls and e-mails.
The video is misleading, Senior said, because it was taken in a 6-inch sewer line.
"The objects are only about 1/2 inch across," he said, "They look bigger in the video."
The worms' reaction to the camera is thought to be a result of heat from the camera light.
Tubifex worms are also called sludge worms, sewage worms, or lime snakes.
"(Tubifex worms) are normally found in the sediment of ponds and are sold as fish food in both live and dried forms," said Ed Buchan, environmental coordinator for the City of Raleigh. "The worms are completely harmless. Because of frequent cleaning and maintenance efforts, the worms are rarely found in city sewer lines."
It wasn't clear how the video from the private contractor ended up on YouTube.
No offence to anybody,but I did not feel anything after watching this.
I do not know abt the authenticity of the video but what I feel is that those stuffs are bacteria/Germs affected 'things' .They looked like breathing because air was being released from those 'things' as part of any chemical/biological reaction and those weird objects have nothing to do with any `lifey' one.
^ Well you're not human if your stomach did not contract at all....You're a Bot
Mirch bhai, thanks for the info.... i actually thought they were huge human eating monsters.... i'm unpertubed now that i know they're iddy biddy 1/2 an inch....
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*runs to bathroom to throw up* 
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