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Eddie writes "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into that snakehead fishpond behind the shopping center in Crofton, Md., now comes word of a new threat slithering into our environment - "nuclear worms" from Vietnam carrying cholera and other deadly diseases." There are a bunch of blurbs here and there about these worms - apparently this Washington Post story was the origin of most of them.
"Leave us alone you ugly bags of mostly water"
A fluorescent, hot pink worm, having diarrhea. Now this I have to see.
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I am reminded of this comic....
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Jeez this article is from July 27th.. Isn't there something more recent to talk about?
I guess i'll have to get rid of my ringworm farm.
Intestinal worms make the best of friends...
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Against giving animals stupid geeky names. "Nuclear Worms"? Seriously, what genius came up with that one?
Why not fork?
I really hate to see people importing forgein plants and animal species into this country without really stopping to think as to what the consequences could be. These worms not only have the potential to wipe out certain bi-valves. The article seems to imply that they really don't know what damage they could do. A bit of research would be a great idea. Anything that can survive on the dash of a hot car for 3 days is a serious ecological threat. However the northern states have little to worry about, since the worms can't live under 68 degrees there is little chance of a problem occuring there, however florida in particluar could have some SERIOUS problems, since these breed in mangroves (florida has plenty) and florida does'nt really get cold enough to kill them off, there is a great likely-hood of these gaining a foot-hold there. Like I said, bad idea, really bad idea.
The article seems to be presenting this as a good thing. Any imported animals are likely to cary disease, and they're a new import so it just needs to be found out what safeguards and restrictions should apply, just like fruit. /bigger/. And this one seems to have come about naturally, no mention of any genetic engineering, and for everybody who doesnt bother to read the article: "Nuclear" Worms is just a name. Come up with to market the things. These are just animals being brought from one region to another. Like horses. But getting chopped into bits after the sale.
Just another developement in the modern way of making everything
Any "Threat" is more likely going to be based on survival-of-the-fittest, not some non-obscure diseases which happen to be in some worms which have been imported for years with no related cases of illness.
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I don't think nuclear worms are our worst problem when I see MS ads on this story!
Not only can I get worms that carry viruses via e-mail in my Outlook mailbox, thanks to M$, I can now get them in my P.O. box via snail-mail thanks to FedEx!
I wonder how this article ever got accepted. I bet a lot of articles 10 times more relevant and interesting to the slashdot community than this one have been rejected.
From the WP article...
:)
> Early imports were packed in material found to
> contain the pathogen that causes cholera,
> though no cases resulted.
It was the packaging, not the worms, that were the problem. I just thought I'd clear that up for anyone who didn't read the full WP article.
If we are going to go ballistic over non-native species, then we should start by wiping out all the pigeons in North and South America, please.
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if only it has some bloody pictures at least!
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I guess 2am sunday morning isn't the pintical of news. This doesn't exactly go in my, "Stuff I"m glad I know", file.
I do security
That must be the worst joke I've ever heard.
You're operating under the assumption that submissions are reviewed. That's clearly hogwash. Worm stories may satisfy a juvenile urge to talk about things that squirm, but as you point out, they aren't that interesting and are obviously filler to get us to load the ads and up the counts.
Submissions are apparently only used as a source of amusement. The so-called 'editors' use a dartboard to decide what makes it on the main page....that and a 'good old boy' network which, like most cliques, operates behind the scenes in a smoke filled room.
"Ignore the man behind the curtain!"
Gone Fission
A good name for a sailboat.
That sounds like exactly what I was saying when the first Starbucks arrived in Scotland. Everyone thought that it was pretty cool that a coffee could come in so many different ways - and that biscuits had italian sounding names!
But pretty soon they had ousted most of the indiginous coffee places, and even quite a few other minority species like good record shops, and cheap wineries.
Now all you see for miles around is shops with silver chairs and tables out the front and streets littered with empty 4 gallon coffee cups.
I drive over the cups whenever I see them, which I take to be their eggs or young. And I refuse to give them the money they need to survive. Some day I am sure they will suffocate us. There are no food shops within a mile of my home now, but there are 4 starbucks. My how things change...
Check out Pat Buchanan's article about the worms, "Oriental Gay Worms use their Hot Pink bodies to spread diseases to regular American worms".
Just imagine a Beoworm cluster of those guys...
I think this should be categorized under the heading "You rights online" as you are clearly reporting a story about my private parts and I want you to stop!
How do you have a story about a nearly fluorescent 5-7 foot worm and not include a picture? Maybe it should also be A.K.A. vapoworm(tm)
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When I first saw this I thought "yeah, ok", but after some googling it appears that they are actually real and not some washington post made up crap. This link
Maryland Marine Notes which discusses concerns for Chesapeake bay mentions how the Department of Natural Resources classifies the "nuclear worm" on their list of no known problems but potentially dangerous creatures.This one is by the US Wildlife field service:
more info I've been trying to find a photo but everyone has the same info... basically wildlife angencies are trying to figure out what the hell it is and how dangerous it is... fisherman use it as bait, and the press hypes up the "nuclear" part of it by saying it was created by agent orange and napalm. The actual name nuclear worm was made up by a bait salesman on chesapeake bay because it sounded good. *rolls eyes*
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i'm finding mention of these worms from as far back as '98 in fishing sources.
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and I think i found the reporter's tracks, too:
http://www.atbeach.com/fishtalk/messages/29
this being so, does it really have relevance or is it a reporter making hype? if it weren't hot pink, would anyone care?
secondly, does anyone have a picture? I can't find anything through google. i'm certainly curious. also, can anyone link pics of the chernobyl worms a friend of mine just told me about? how strange the world is...
The Scientific name mentioned in one of the Maryland Marine Notes links articles "Namalycastis abiuma" according to another source (Manual for Watershed Health and Water Quality) is:
Scientific Name: Namalycastis abiuma
Description: Segmented white thread-like worm with pad-like legs on every segment; living in vegetation and leaf litter in streams and ponds. Can reach up to 2 cm.
First we get news of fricken laser beams, now we have mutated, ill tempered..... uh......... worms.
and all on the same day we get an article that holywood is down the tubes, must be a slow geek day!
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Is this the start of a Goa'uld like species? Are we all going to be enslaved by snakeheads thanks to the US government tipping thousands of tons of exotic chemicals on the world?! ;)
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like, umm, err, you guys in us of a don't have any greater threats to your environment? haven't imported anything LOT WORSE like? what i personally dislike very much in this article is the naming of the worms, and how the whole article gloats on that, and simply assumes that the worms got made in some pond that had a) lot of agent orange b) lot of other bad stuff, and no, it doesn't actually say so, but it lets you believe it.. and reporters should really THINK before they type nuclear into anything these days.. especially if it's likely to be read by n+1-number of people that don't have brains and will start YELLING FOR BLOOD, I MEAN OMG! VIETNAMS ARE GOING TO KILL US WITH NUCLEAR WORMS!!!!!!!!!!!
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What, you didn't realise that Slashdot is really about fishing?
If 42 persons, who want SOMETHING and their NAME, written on Slashdot, post an article about fish baits you instantly turn the site into a fishing portal. Great service, our feedback matters! If an article contains the words "nuclear" and "worm" it has gotta be interesting, right? It would be interesting to know how many of these submissions were posted under "security".
Aussie joke.
Specifically, a type of fly fishing, known as 'trolling.'
1) Starlings, imported by a nutter who wanted all the birds from Shakespear in the US.
:-)
2) The British, Spanish, French, Germans, Irish etc
3) The not so "Native" Americans (2 millions years ago... I think not)
4) Mammals... 200 million years ago
5) The planet, 10 billion years ago it wasn't there.
Good God, George Bush is the ultimate environmental fundamentalist, he wants to return the planet to its original state... dust
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First we've got CODERED worm from China, and now those nuclear worms from Vietnam...Damn, stop it!
"... live-worm imports alone were a $70 million business in the US from 1998 to 2000."
And here I've been trying to make a living working with computers like a sucker... WORMS FOR SALE!!!!!
aha!
Combine this with Lasers, and big, pink, bad worms..
I can finally play real worms. Bananna bombs ahoy!
Now i can finally build my RADEOAKTIV WURM GUN!
Still need that NUK tho...
(looks worriedly around and wonders if ANYONE else remembers the old Future vs. Fantasy Quake mod...)
Wow, getting outraged a slashdot story.. Christ you must lead an interesting life "holy mother fucking shit that paperboy deliverd the paper this morning, better kill that fucker! I don't want to read anything that isn't interesting to me!"
No, what he was referring to is that the story contains no "news for nerds" OR "stuff that matters". The only people that would be interested in the latest worm craze would be redneck fishermen. The closest most of us get to fish is in the frozen food section of the supermarket, and the closest place to worms is our IIS servers getting exploited or our Apache logs being filled with the latest Code Red variant trying to attack.
Kudzu
Shoutout from Crofton, Maryland! Woo hoo!
You know, I'd just *love* to see a bunch of modern day enviro-weenies during the days when the dinosaurs were going extinct - can you imagine the uproar that would ensue? Bake sales to 'save the dino's', bumper stickers, a great outpouring of compassion toward the terrible lizzards, vast weeping and wailing over the destruction wrought against nature by humans, legislation by the ton passed to restrict human activities, all over a perfectly natural and freely occurring change in climate, living conditions, evolution, etc. Why people get so upset and start beating their chest and automatically assume some mantle of cosmic guilt for being alive over every little pertubation in the global ecosystem (species come and go, some thrive, others die out, but somehow, life goes on) is just an amazing phenomena to watch. Freud would have a field day - not with kudzu or worms - but with the way your average enviro-conscious-sensitive-guilty-american can so easily have their chains yanked by the news media.
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dont forget: 6) Soccer, it's endangering baseball... bhwhahahaha..ok...not really...
I bet I fish more than 99.999% of the folks that read this (about 5 days a week from April-November) and even I can't believe Slashdot is now doing bait-and-tackle articles.
The H1-B program really IS getting out of hand.
These worms aren't sold for fishing...
They're sold for "fisting."
Really, you don't want to know.
$25,000 of business is "explosive"?
No photos? One weak story copied by
several weak editors
Ites says: for the full scoop, please
interview the worms and find out how
they feel about being imported in unclean
boxes, chopped into little pieces, and
used as fishbait.
Not to mention the insulting name.
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lol... Monty Burns' yacht is named "Gone Fission."
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I have not seen such a poorly reported, uninformative article as this in a long time.
I read this in the Post 3 weeks ago.
Just wondering if someone didn't read the article, but saw nuclear worms and decided to post it.
Gar
The species in question is Namalycastis Abiuma.
A picture can be found here.
The same Article Text and a better picture of the monstrous bugger can be found Here. Scary lil bastard eh?
Can't find much out there on the actual habits of the lil bugger. I user a vermicomposter with redworms to reprocess kitchen vegetable waste for the garden. Anyone know how well these little(?!?) monsters eat? Be interesting to toss one in a bin, and see how it does.
If there's a castle floating upside down in the sky, then there's a castle floating upside down in the sky.
will now be pulled from the libraries. Geesh. And that was one of my favorite books too...
All the worm recepies inside... yummy.
There's a gorilla from Manilla whose a fella that stinks of vanilla and has salmonella.
"the nuclear worm has been welcomed into Chesapeake Bay bait buckets like a bloodworm wired on Viagra."
Say what? I don't think I'd be welcoming any worms on Viagra to anywhere.
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Sorry folks, this is all a big misunderstanding. It's really a 5-7 *INCH* hot pink worm and it lives in my pants. My girlfriend was joking with some friends about how big my hot pink worm is and someone overheard her and took it literally. She said I could use it for fishing it's so long (but not as fish bait). She made mention of nuclear sex or nuclear orgasms or some such and, well, you know how these things spread. I don't know where the Vietnam stuff came from, unless it was from when she said 'that hot pink worm makes me hotter than a napalm weenie roast!' And that whole 'deadly diseases' thing, well, that's just not true, I swear! Anyway, I apologize for the scare, I've already told my GF to try to keep it in my pants from now on.
Yeah-- I thought this might be a new virus or something-- some cross between Code Red and the old Nuclear Macro Virus ;)
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>There are a bunch of blurbs here and there about these worms - apparently this Washington Post story was the origin of most of them
I wondered what the origin of most of the worms was.
People used to think worms appeared spontaneously in rotting meat. Now we know it actually happens in newspaper stories.
No where in this article is it implied that these things have actually gotten loose. The only thing that is remotly interesting in the article is that its called a "Nuclear" worm. In reality there is nothing "Nuclear" about it. That is just a marketing ploy. Introduced species present a large threat to our environment, however this worm, thus far, has not presented any real threat. I have to admit though I do like the title: Gone Fission, if I thought that up I would probably post it too.
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I really hope this is a typo, I just get this strange feeling a 7 foot long worm would make a rockfish sucking it up like sushi look like a 7 year old slurping up speghetti.
But then again...
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Washington Post makes worms now?