Gone Fission

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.

Comments

On behalf of the worm people...

[wo1verin3]

"Leave us alone you ugly bags of mostly water"

Re:On behalf of the worm people...

[wo1verin3]

wow....will wheaton DOES read all the comments. :)

Speaking of pink worms...

[Verizon Guy]

I am reminded of this comic....

Great!

[DTC]

You can dial up more than 50 Internet sources for living things that wriggle, creep and crawl. They can be in your mailbox tomorrow via FedEx.

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!

Re:Oh damn...

[acehole]

It'd make for an interesting conversation peice.

"so.. um what's with the large bulge moving around your torso?"

If we are going to go ballistic...

[tlambert]

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.

-- Terry

VERY Bad idea

[squaretorus]

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...

No picture?

[JPriest]

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)

Its a good day for slashdot

[mr_exit]

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!

Eek

[ChrisJones]

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?! ;)

Re:They don't carry cholera!

[Anonymous Coward]

I just thought I'd clear that up for anyone who didn't read the full WP article. :)

ie. The entire Slashdot population.

Bait Articles?

[whipping_post]

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.

good god.

[kin_korn_karn]

The H1-B program really IS getting out of hand.

Curious... this non-story

[ites]

$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.