By ssjrem
I have absolutely no life. As such, I have a lot of time on my hands. Everday, I go to Youtube and look at the most viewed clips of the day. Most of these are stupid and I rarely bother even watching them, but I always check to see if anything catches my interest. Today, I looked the clips up as I always do and noticed the most viewed clip immediately. It’s at over 3,000,000 views already, which is a tremendous amount for one day. With just one day, it already ranks sixth for the videos uploaded in the past month. The title of said clip is “Unknown Life-Form in North Carolina Sewer!” So, yeah, I’ll shut up now and just let you watch the clip.
So, yeah, there you go. It freaks me out a little. There’s the obvious possibility that it’s a hoax or something like that, but if this is in fact real, then that’s pretty fascinating. If that is truly some form of life, then it’s a rather bizarre one, is it not? There’s basically nothing to go on with the clip and any sort of conclusion is impossible to derive. Go ahead and go to Youtube itself to watch it and read all the comments and such. I rather wanted to blog about something other than Dragonball Z and Youtube acted as my savior today. So, yeah, there you go. Peace out.
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It’s actually what Jason Tugend morphs into at 3:33 a.m. I’ve witnessed it. It’s scray.
By: dukemich on July 2, 2009
at 6:40 pm
I wouldn’t doubt it. It looks like something Ivan Ooze would sick on the Power Rangers.
By: hydro033 on July 2, 2009
at 11:22 pm
I found the apparent answer..
“Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. I sent along the video and this was his reponse…Thanks for the video – I had not see it before.
No, these are not bryozoans! 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.”
By: hydro033 on July 2, 2009
at 3:20 pm
I see… Well, that’s somewhat disappointing. I was hoping for something a bit more exotic. Oh well. Still pretty interesting, though.
By: ssjrem on July 2, 2009
at 5:01 pm
It may not even be animal. It could be a colony of fungi that are sensitive to the light. It seems they contracted once the light was on them for about two seconds. It was probably the first time it ever encountered light and I’m wondering what kind of photoreceptors it even has if any at all. I don’t think the tool prodded them at all. It definitely seems like a legitimate organism, unknown species? Well, let’s let some scientist look at it before we let some people on youtube shout “Aliens!!”
Things I noticed:
It’s not breathing.
It has the ability to contract it’s outgrowths.
It seems sensitive to a light stimulus.
It may have eye stalks like a snail, I did see something at “top” or what I think is the anterior end of the organism.
On the second specimen, notice the contractions on the left side. Once it pulls in its extremities, it seems like it’s wiggling as if it might have voluntary control over it? It seems like the rest is a mucus coating or something but there may be smaller yellowish appendages along the bottom right of the organism. Maybe it’s a cocoon of some kind. Determining if the organism is sessile or mobile would help.
Some dude in the youtube comments also thinks it’s a colonial type of fungus called from the phylum Bryozoa. We studied them in biology, and I must say that it would be Bryozoans if anything. They’re just as disgusting.
By: hydro033 on July 2, 2009
at 2:46 pm