Comments on: Low Life

By: jack

jack — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:44:50 +0000

I think this might be the answer:

http://www.cryptozoology.com/forum/topic_view_thread.php?tid=20&pid=678162

By: jack

jack — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 22:31:20 +0000

if its fake, its frikkin well done

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:28:09 +0000

Hi Chloë,

As they say: “As above, so below.” It does look like there might be some spaghetti in there.

That’s a remarkably sweet spot in “design space”, to exist unchanged for 350 million years.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:13:02 +0000

I saw this today and my first thought was to send it to you! Of course, you always have your ear to the streets, dad.

My googling found that the consensus is that they are primitive 350 million-year-old “animals” called bryozoans. They are a conglomerate of many single-celled organisms, which are able to filter-feed nutrients from the water. Still pretty alien and disgusting.

Or maybe it’s the reincarnation of the FSM?

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:57:27 +0000

Hi all, Yes, pretty revolting, though perhaps far less so after being rolled in a little batter and immersed in a deep-fryer. Deogolwulf, I assure you I hadn't gone out of my way looking looking for anything like these cowran, tim'rous beasties; I simply followed a link sent by a friend. As always happens in such cases, the experts are weighing in. We haven't been told yet that they are luminous balls of marsh gas, nor that they are weather balloons, but so far the candidates out on the hustings are tubifex worms and bryozoans. Where is Charles Fort when you need him?

By: Jeanie Oliver

Jeanie Oliver — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 00:53:57 +0000

Yuck!

By: Deogolwulf

Deogolwulf — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 23:09:54 +0000

Quite revolting. What on earth were you looking for when you found that?

By: JK

JK — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:52:01 +0000

If I recall correctly Kevin, those pipes are 32″ in diameter (if that helps).

I will say this definitively though, North Carolina might – in a gesture of goodwill, ask some of the skinnier members of PETA if they’d go down and take a look. Whatever those things are, they are camera shy. And if the things have pain receptors (as crabs may), the things’d make for nice silkscreened T-shirts at PETA parades.

By: Horace Jeffery Hodges

Horace Jeffery Hodges — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:12:05 +0000

Personally, I think that these are residues of the blob. Global warming is reviving the monster. Moreover, at about 1:15 into the clip, an image of Warren Buffet can be seen to the right of one of these. Obviously something apocalyptic is coming “soon . . . very soon.”

Jeffery Hodges

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By: Kevin Kim

Kevin Kim — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:41:32 +0000

They seem to be sensitive to light, whatever they are: they all behave the same way when the camera is trained on them. Alas, I get no sense of scale. Are these things a half-inch across? Two inches across? Two feet across? If they’re tiny, why not tap (or rake!) one with a dental hook and see what happens?

Kevin