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Strange Video, lifeform in sewer in North Carolina
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kmduke
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 		Strange Video, lifeform in sewer in North Carolina
This weird video has been seen in a couple of blogs/forums. Not sure what it is actually... if it is fake it is a good fake

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKpx2DxGwY

/EDIT: Since it's not a trailhead moving it to V&S. -ndemeter

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 		One comment on youtube:

Quote:
Looks like a guy bending over pushing his <edit>stuff</edit> behind his legs


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GalvanicSpiral
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 		That would be a Bryozoan. It's a primitive, aquatic life form(technically a *very* primitive animal, believe it or not... Shocked ) that evolved 350,000,000 years ago. The ball is composed of individual organisms that are all clumped together, and feeds off the food particles found in the waste-water supply. Weird, yes, but most definitely *not* an alien. +1 for science! Wink

And before you go all crazy and think I'm some kind of Marine Biologist, actually a quick google search clears this up. Razz

EDIT: Actually, on further googling, it appears it is, in fact..... a tubifex tubifex(thought I was going to say alien didn't ya!), another kind of marine animal.
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 		So the youtube comment is false? Stupid YouTube commentators.

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 		They were also sighted in Denver. Nothing to worry about, just a primitive life form that has survived all these years.

http://www.kdvr.com/kdvr-prehistoricsewermonstercaug-5439314,0,673974.story

I am sorry for all the Cloverfield fans that got their hopes up. Wink
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ndemeter wrote:
They were also sighted in Denver. Nothing to worry about, just a primitive life form that has survived all these years.


How about something a little older. Anybody else think scientists ought not have reheated a virus 120,000 years old? <raises>
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bug-resurrected-after-120000-years-2009-06

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natas wrote:
ndemeter wrote:
They were also sighted in Denver. Nothing to worry about, just a primitive life form that has survived all these years.


How about something a little older. Anybody else think scientists ought not have reheated a virus 120,000 years old? <raises>
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=bug-resurrected-after-120000-years-2009-06


Actually, I thought it was pretty interesting. Then again, I have the SCIAM RSS feed on my browser's homepage, so I probably would find it interesting. Wink

I guess I don't see the harm in it, because scientists working with microbes are professionals who are trained to take proper precautionary measures to assess and mitigate any danger microbes pose. It's not like a bunch of kids running around playing with worms, not having any idea what the crap they're doing.

Don't get me wrong; it's good to question whether we should be messing with things we haven't encountered before, but we shouldn't let ourselves become frightened hermits simply because something, somewhere, sometime *might* pose a threat to safety.

Remember, if no one ever explored the unknown we would still be living in caves, wondering how to arrange our rock furniture to best feng our shui. Wink
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GalvanicSpiral wrote:
Remember, if no one ever explored the unknown we would still be living in caves, wondering how to arrange our rock furniture to best feng our shui. Wink

This is infinitely quotable. 'Specially the "feng our shui" part. Very Happy
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krystyn wrote:
GalvanicSpiral wrote:
Remember, if no one ever explored the unknown we would still be living in caves, wondering how to arrange our rock furniture to best feng our shui. Wink

This is infinitely quotable. 'Specially the "feng our shui" part. Very Happy


Ha, thanks! Wink

It's true though, you know? The way I look at it, we humans are part of the same universe as everything else, evolved to have/gifted with a sense of curiosity and intelligence that allows us to discover and understand the amazing things that exist with and around us, and we should use that to better understand how this universe formed, so that we may appreciate it all the more.

While the idea that there are things that are, or should be off-limits to "mess with" is understandable due to the basic human belief that we are somehow supposed to let things be and just "let God deal with(or protect us from)" anything we don't yet understand(or can't/don't want to handle), I think ultimately this argument fails when we begin to understand that the universe, and for that matter, everything contained in it, is not this mysterious, spooky place that is God's domain that is sacrilege to tread on. However, we can use that built-in caution in a constructive way to make ourselves safer when we do explore things "out there."

If we had more people willing to take the initiative to do that, we could have solved a whole slew of problems, climate change chief among them.

Trying to get people to understand that is a whole other can 'o worms, and extremely frustrating, to say the least. Rolling Eyes
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 		I vote we start a climate change discussion (Wasn't it "global warming", last week?).
Personally, I think it's changing, but that the IPCC standards and research are lacking and that human impact is much smaller than the "experts" would have us believe.
If nobody's up for that, we could debate the ethics of citing Nazi hypothermia and other medical research.
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