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Gone Fission

Posted by michael on from the live-bait dept.

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.

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  1. Oh damn... by acehole · · Score: 0, Troll

    I guess i'll have to get rid of my ringworm farm.

    Intestinal worms make the best of friends...

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  2. Other non-native imports that have caused problems by MosesJones · · Score: 1, Troll

    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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  3. Scene's we'd love to see by ch-chuck · · Score: 0, Troll

    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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