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| Shuttle Worms Found Alive, Alive, I tell You! |
| 2003-05-01 |
| We've all seen this movie before, and we know what happens!The worms, which are about the size of the tip of a pen, were aboard Columbia as a life sciences experiment that was sponsored by NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The worms were being flown to test a new synthetic nutrient solution and were to have been analyzed the day the shuttle landed. New synthetic nutrient solution, exposure to space, accident happens, you know where I'm going, don't you. Instead, the canisters fell from the sky inside a shuttle middeck locker, landing somewhere in eastern Texas, the primary debris recovery site. The nutrient solution, which was sealed in the Petri dishes along with the worms, evidently proved more than adequate, as the creatures not only survived, but thrived, cycling through four or five generations in the three months since the accident. I expect reports of giant worms rampaging across Texas, eating herds of cattle and tourists any day now. My god, the 4th ID is still in Iraq, who will stop these Giant Space Worms! It's Bush's fault! |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #8 This goes a long way toward explaining the origins of Jacques Chirac. |
| Posted by: tbn 2003-05-02 00:44:16 |
| #7 So what is the proper term for a herd of worms? A wiggle? Little bloody hemaphrodites! Where in the hell did I drop those two? Ohmygodddd! Ahhhhhh......... |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-05-01 16:02:44 |
| #6 Are we sure.....we found them all? To be continued. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-05-01 14:33:29 |
| #5 It's the Tiny Worms from Outer Space! |
| Posted by: KP 2003-05-01 14:12:24 |
| #4 "Texas. It's like a whole other country." Yep. I expect the "mutated" worms will fit in just fine with our own worms - everything is bigger in Texas, anyway, doncha know. |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-05-01 13:55:51 |
| #3 "How many worms in a stampede? Is it three or more? Is there a minimum speed?" |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-05-01 13:43:39 |
| #2 I was thinking of the Simpsons episode when Homer, floating aboard the shuttle eating potato chips, broke the ant colony experiment - now you've got me envisioning Tremors |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-05-01 13:25:24 |
| #1 Do not taunt Happy Fun Worm! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-05-01 13:06:22 |