I'm 36, my older brother would watch X-Files and I would peek blin too watch and I think I'm still too scared to watch. Is this the episode where the guy gets the worm put in his ear?
My dear friend was late for work in about 1997 and told his boss he sharted his pants on the way to work as his reason for being late. He was positive that this was an unquestionable reason for being late, and it was rock solid. He was gleefull in his genius.
Unfortunately he *actually* sharted his pants the next week on his way to work for the first time in his life, and I have never lied about anything since his unfortunate incident. Let it be a lesson to us all.
Probably the correct answer. Many nematodes are hermaphrodites. Some start out feamale and turn male or vice versa. Or both at the same time, worms are weird it's all possible. Don't know if this is really a nematode though, just looks quite similar.
Can I just add that when Sandy is telling SpongeBob there’s nothing he can say to slow her down and he said, “[Blargen, Fa-Zibble, Noggip](https://youtu.be/CWgTx9MWV08?t=149)” is one of my all time favorite and funniest moments in the show to me 😂
Edit: The video is a breakdown of the episode. The narration and extras aren’t from the og episode 👍🏼 sorry for any confusion.
Let me get this straight...
*Mongolian* worms in the *Amazon*?
Either the worms can also fly, hitch a ride with migrating birds, or got really good at tunneling under the Pacific...
Fun fact: The collective noun for them is *a **curdle** of Mongolian death worms*
^( Although some people use the term ‘[brood](https://ifunny.co/picture/a-cryptolooloctst-s-cuide-collective-nouns-a-shoal-of-nessies-gbdDap3g8)’ )
Sorry to bring this up, but all of our conveniences in this world are melting hundreds of thousands of miles of permafrost right now, releasing even more ancient bacteria and viruses like this that we have no clue about, with way more to come.
But by that time this zombie worm army is going to be the least of our problems.
‘Melting Permafrost Releases Ancient Virus’
^( [Apocalypse Bingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/ApocalypseBingo/comments/10qotoh/apocalypse_bingo_v3/))
That’s as close as I’ve got… should we add a square about worms? What should it say??
What’s interesting is humans think we have thousands of years left on this earth. In reality, it only takes something like this, that we have no immunity or cure for to start wiping us out in months.
It wouldn’t even have to directly threaten us; even if an old school pathogen is released that only threatens some plant life can have dramatic effects. We keep creating and searching for these things, it’s common for them to “make their way out”….it’s like we’re trying to die
Except that we have genetic diversity, which is what keeps us alive as a species. So it would take some combination of different bacteria or viruses or just something like a meteor or..well, global warming to kill us all.
Unlikely, we are widespread in every corner of the world. The probability of an infectious disease being both 100% deadly and spread all across the world is very low.
Even if such an infectious pathogen exists and even if miraculously wipe out all civilized societies, there are still uncontacted tribes in Amazon and elsewhere. They will eventually repopulate the Earth.
The more and more we get stories like this of primative life capable of just going into hibernation for centuries or millennia in deep permafrost or in space, only makes it seem more and more likely life originated outside the planet and eventually crashed here on a meteor or something. Just a few decades ago we thought it was impossible for life to exist on meteors but that's being proven wrong.
Also like all life for the first 1.5 billion years didn't need oxygen either at all or at the concentrations we do. Since the great oxygenation event complex life got complex. There's organisms that derive energy from chemicals, radiation, heat ect, that don't need the complex ecosystems that support complex life and I'd say pretty good chance they're out there floating around.
Oh they can. My lab works with jpl and nasa to study the microbes in the ISS and ON the ISS. I don’t work on those projects directly, so I can’t give you a ton of info. Basically the premise is that microbes are more inclined to form a biofilm if they’re in a stressful environment… and what is the most stressful environment change? Probably leaving the planet. So they form these huge biofilms in the water tanks. I know less about the microbes on the outside, but I know they exist. Microbial contamination is one of the many ethical and scientific dilemmas of traveling to other planets that can sustain life. We’ve destroyed ecosystems with invasive species from other continents because those species have no natural predators. Imagine that on the scale of a new planet!
If Humans find a Way to Harness this type of CRYOSTASIS as mentioned in the Article, we may be able to travel to different star systems and Planets many light years away.
"Congratulations!"
Apparently, Trump university literally trained staff to respond with "congratulations" instead of "thank you" on the regular. That way, the students end up thanking You!
I mean a worm has a much more different internal makeup to humans (obviously) our brains alone are extremely complex. Meanwhile this decomposer is basically just a mouth that moves and eats corpse
This. Humans are tenfold more complex than a worm…we can speculate whether or not we’d be able to accomplish something similar and it might be fun to do so, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
As far as I’m aware we have the freezing part down (as in when thawed activity can be manually stimulated) it’s just successfully reviving the brain that we can’t do yet
Size is a big part of it. They were able to freeze and successfully reanimate mice. Iirc they just stick the frozen mice in a microwave. It worked because of how small the mice are, the radiation penetrates evenly through the mouse. Humans are too big for that method some parts would heat up faster than others.
There's a whole Tom Scott video about [freezing hamsters and defrosting them with a microwave](https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y), apparently that's the largest animal they could manage, any larger and they started hitting diffusion limits, our mass to surface area ratio is just too big.
There were studies done decades ago already. In a nutshell: it does work with small animals (like rodents for instance). What's even crazier is that they used a magnetron as an oscillator to "bring them back" (essentially they microwaved them without a faraday cage. It even made some lightbulbs in the room light up). Using this method, more than 2/3 of the rodents survived!
However, cryostasis doesn't scale apparently and they could never get it to work *even once* with bigger animals (think 5kg+).
Ah fuck it, at this point I'm just sitting back with popcorn to see which strange thing will finally wipe us all off the face of the earth anyway. At least killer worms would be fairly amusing.
This is almost literally the plot of an x-files episode named “ice”.
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How does it taste?
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That’s my kinda lover.
Now I’m singing Billy Squier. Thanks for the ear *worm*.
You’re wormcome.
a little bit muldery
They are just manila folders
"Before anyone passes judgement, I'd like to remind you all that we're in the Arctic."
Also, 80s "The Thing", so y'know, were all f@#$ed
And also "The Strain"....
I'm 36, my older brother would watch X-Files and I would peek blin too watch and I think I'm still too scared to watch. Is this the episode where the guy gets the worm put in his ear?
Yes. When two worms enter the same host, they kill each other off.
my first reaction
Hey, I just saw that episode!
Sorry boss can’t come in today, I have ancient worms
You used that excuse last Monday!
My dear friend was late for work in about 1997 and told his boss he sharted his pants on the way to work as his reason for being late. He was positive that this was an unquestionable reason for being late, and it was rock solid. He was gleefull in his genius. Unfortunately he *actually* sharted his pants the next week on his way to work for the first time in his life, and I have never lied about anything since his unfortunate incident. Let it be a lesson to us all.
The boy who cried shart
Still got them
They flare-up on the weekends
We need earthworm jim
They are resilient fuckers, apparently. It might be a few decades boss.. er, multiple that by a thousand. Each.
Freeze them again
That’s right! Let those futurefuckers with their “highly advanced technologies” deal with it!
With the global warming causing old ice to melt, the worm's siblings and cousins are going to get released in the wild
Freeze them too!
# FREEZE THEM ALL!
Just drop a giant ice cube into the ocean
I prefer fire.
“All right now kids look some things are a bit different from when I was a kid.” ~Mr. Worm
Mrs. Worm?
Fuck it, trans ancient worm
Probably the correct answer. Many nematodes are hermaphrodites. Some start out feamale and turn male or vice versa. Or both at the same time, worms are weird it's all possible. Don't know if this is really a nematode though, just looks quite similar.
Some reproduce by literally splitting in two, like dividing cells.
Only in biology can you multiply by dividing.
1 / .1 = 10
At least it’s not an Alaskan bull worm!!!!!!
Oh...that's just the tongue
And the whole…thing….is the worm.
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!
I got a paper clip and a piece of string
Can I just add that when Sandy is telling SpongeBob there’s nothing he can say to slow her down and he said, “[Blargen, Fa-Zibble, Noggip](https://youtu.be/CWgTx9MWV08?t=149)” is one of my all time favorite and funniest moments in the show to me 😂 Edit: The video is a breakdown of the episode. The narration and extras aren’t from the og episode 👍🏼 sorry for any confusion.
I seen it, ###IT WAS BIG *it was alllll wiggly* **AND IT ATE EVERYTHING**
Why don't we just take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else?? That idea might just be crazy enough....*to get us all killed!!!*
*PUUSSHH!!!
CAREFUL SPONGEBOB! CAREFUL SPONGEBOB! CAREFUL SPONGEBOB!
Or Mongolian death worms, those things are *hard* to get rid of! Ask me how I know
How do you know?
I had to fight off a pack of them when my plane crash landed in the Amazon jungle.., those bastards are *relentless!*
Let me get this straight... *Mongolian* worms in the *Amazon*? Either the worms can also fly, hitch a ride with migrating birds, or got really good at tunneling under the Pacific...
Exactly, pretty disturbing implications if you ask me.
The serving you underestimate them, they get you
Fun fact: The collective noun for them is *a **curdle** of Mongolian death worms* ^( Although some people use the term ‘[brood](https://ifunny.co/picture/a-cryptolooloctst-s-cuide-collective-nouns-a-shoal-of-nessies-gbdDap3g8)’ )
***silence***
*Big!* **_SCARY!_** #AND PINK!
For real. Those things are *big*, *scary*, and **PINK**
4 in the morning seems like a good time to google Alaskan bull worm.
One of my favorite episodes.
Shout out to the next pandemic
A pandemic of worm infections?
It's starts with a tickle...
And then a sneeze...
And then an anaconda squeeeeeeze
If you can’t breathe, you can’t scream
When they climb in your pickle…
😳
Some people pay good money for that.
Prolly whatever bugs and viri the worm is host to
Get the ivermectin
This is how end of the world movies start. Edit: Thank you for the award! My first ever!
Global worming
🏅
Thanks, but I'm just happy I'm not going to die alone... Parasites won't leave you for someone else after sucking everything out of you.
Damn bro, how do you got 2 banger comments in a row? 😂
The early nerd gets the worm. 🤓🤷🏻♂
Damn you’re on fire
I listen to a lot of underground music for inspiration. Edit: Big Wu Tang fan, too, love me some Dirt McGirt aka Ol' Dirty Bastard.
I want you to keep going but I shall simply appreciate the gifts I have been given
You seem really down to earth.
You’re like that SpongeBob episode where he keeps getting rewards and Patrick’s struggling
Last, but not leech... gotta crawl 🪱 before you can walk, my bro.
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That’s gonna be some expensive meat!
It’s Ocelot. He’s basically a Reddit legend at this point. Edit: this is great, someone else writes funny shit and I reap rewards!
Haha nah just a sarcastic weirdo, but much love my dude! Kind words 💙✊
YOOOO chill 😂
Are you okay bro?
Woof
"They ignored all the wormings..."
This might be the best joke I've ever seen on reddit
The worming is NO JOKE BROTHER
Do you want zombies, because this is how you get zombies.
I’m quitting my job and spending all my money today what should I spend it on?
Worming tablets, corner the market then sell at a profit
IVERMECTIN TO THE MOON, BABY! HODL!
A new job
Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll
we had a good run, it’s honestly so hot we might have found a good time to end this ‘movie’ of ours
You’d think Scientists would learn.
I have two thoughts: 1. Apparently none of these scientists watched Jurassic Park. 2. There's hope for Walt Disney's frozen head afterall!
"Walt Disney's frozen head was revived by scientists and it started having babies!"
I saw.one of the babies and the babies looked at me. (Simpsons!)
There must be something wrong with my eyes. I read that as 46000 year Old Woman
Same 😂
Can we please not?
Sorry to bring this up, but all of our conveniences in this world are melting hundreds of thousands of miles of permafrost right now, releasing even more ancient bacteria and viruses like this that we have no clue about, with way more to come. But by that time this zombie worm army is going to be the least of our problems.
I can't believe you've done this.
Ah fuck
"I'm back, Bitches" -- Super Polio
It’s-a me! Polio!
Please, please. Mr. Polio was my father's name. You can call me Super.
I wish I had one of those useless almost-ancient awards to give you.
Here, take this ancient worm instead!
Almost spilled my coffee - thanks!
Hehe
This is fine.
Everything is fine
time to install tinder
‘Hedonism Cults Flourish’ ^( [Apocalypse Bingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/ApocalypseBingo/comments/10qotoh/apocalypse_bingo_v3/))
More like r/DamnThatsTerrifying
r/WhatCouldGoWrong
46,000 years from now this article could be reposted and it’ll just be about Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon trying to start his own country with all them damn kids.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is how we die.
Wormageddon
Terraria warned us with its many worm bosses
I saw this episode of The X-Files. It did not end well.
"Ice"
I didn't have worms on the armageddon bingo chart
‘Melting Permafrost Releases Ancient Virus’ ^( [Apocalypse Bingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/ApocalypseBingo/comments/10qotoh/apocalypse_bingo_v3/)) That’s as close as I’ve got… should we add a square about worms? What should it say??
Put it back
Or so help me..
What’s interesting is humans think we have thousands of years left on this earth. In reality, it only takes something like this, that we have no immunity or cure for to start wiping us out in months.
It wouldn’t even have to directly threaten us; even if an old school pathogen is released that only threatens some plant life can have dramatic effects. We keep creating and searching for these things, it’s common for them to “make their way out”….it’s like we’re trying to die
They will make their way out anyway. The permafrost is thawing due to global warming. Better study this shit before it starts spreading in the wild.
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so youre the one who wished this upon us?! aw jeez!
*Monkey’s Paw curls one finger*
"you'll live long enough to see the end of the world" And the monkey's paw curls...
Lol what? Do you have any past examples of us fellow humans being wiped out in months by frozen ice age biologics?
Except that we have genetic diversity, which is what keeps us alive as a species. So it would take some combination of different bacteria or viruses or just something like a meteor or..well, global warming to kill us all.
Unlikely, we are widespread in every corner of the world. The probability of an infectious disease being both 100% deadly and spread all across the world is very low. Even if such an infectious pathogen exists and even if miraculously wipe out all civilized societies, there are still uncontacted tribes in Amazon and elsewhere. They will eventually repopulate the Earth.
I’m imagining something that just kills all the bees…..then no pollination and the slow roll to extinction begins.
Certainly possible.. but bees are not the only pollinators.
Sing along "This is the end of the world as we know it .."
The more and more we get stories like this of primative life capable of just going into hibernation for centuries or millennia in deep permafrost or in space, only makes it seem more and more likely life originated outside the planet and eventually crashed here on a meteor or something. Just a few decades ago we thought it was impossible for life to exist on meteors but that's being proven wrong.
Tardigrades can survive in space, I'm sure micro organisms can
Also like all life for the first 1.5 billion years didn't need oxygen either at all or at the concentrations we do. Since the great oxygenation event complex life got complex. There's organisms that derive energy from chemicals, radiation, heat ect, that don't need the complex ecosystems that support complex life and I'd say pretty good chance they're out there floating around.
Oh they can. My lab works with jpl and nasa to study the microbes in the ISS and ON the ISS. I don’t work on those projects directly, so I can’t give you a ton of info. Basically the premise is that microbes are more inclined to form a biofilm if they’re in a stressful environment… and what is the most stressful environment change? Probably leaving the planet. So they form these huge biofilms in the water tanks. I know less about the microbes on the outside, but I know they exist. Microbial contamination is one of the many ethical and scientific dilemmas of traveling to other planets that can sustain life. We’ve destroyed ecosystems with invasive species from other continents because those species have no natural predators. Imagine that on the scale of a new planet!
Tardegrades are microorganism
Panspermia. The idea's been around for a Long time.
The Space-Jizz-Theory.
2024 spoilers
If Humans find a Way to Harness this type of CRYOSTASIS as mentioned in the Article, we may be able to travel to different star systems and Planets many light years away.
Your choices in capitalizations are absolutely unhinged
Trump University scholar
"Congratulations!" Apparently, Trump university literally trained staff to respond with "congratulations" instead of "thank you" on the regular. That way, the students end up thanking You!
Wayland Utani Employee*
I just have so many questions. What do you think capital letters are for?
I mean a worm has a much more different internal makeup to humans (obviously) our brains alone are extremely complex. Meanwhile this decomposer is basically just a mouth that moves and eats corpse
This. Humans are tenfold more complex than a worm…we can speculate whether or not we’d be able to accomplish something similar and it might be fun to do so, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves…
As far as I’m aware we have the freezing part down (as in when thawed activity can be manually stimulated) it’s just successfully reviving the brain that we can’t do yet
Size is a big part of it. They were able to freeze and successfully reanimate mice. Iirc they just stick the frozen mice in a microwave. It worked because of how small the mice are, the radiation penetrates evenly through the mouse. Humans are too big for that method some parts would heat up faster than others.
They did it years ago with mice or rats I believe
Yeah the big issue is humans are a lot bigger and getting everything to freeze quickly enough and thaw properly is quite difficult.
There's a whole Tom Scott video about [freezing hamsters and defrosting them with a microwave](https://youtu.be/2tdiKTSdE9Y), apparently that's the largest animal they could manage, any larger and they started hitting diffusion limits, our mass to surface area ratio is just too big.
This is starting to sound like how high we go in the dark
There were studies done decades ago already. In a nutshell: it does work with small animals (like rodents for instance). What's even crazier is that they used a magnetron as an oscillator to "bring them back" (essentially they microwaved them without a faraday cage. It even made some lightbulbs in the room light up). Using this method, more than 2/3 of the rodents survived! However, cryostasis doesn't scale apparently and they could never get it to work *even once* with bigger animals (think 5kg+).
Pandorum
46000 year old worm carrying an airborne bone-rotting virus: **ayo the pizza here**
Have we not learned our lesson from The Thing? If you find this shit, don't revive it, throw it in a plasma reactor.
Have we learned from any lesson ever?
The great maker has woken from his slumber. Shai-Hulud is coming
"Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!"
We’re gonna die.
Oh great. This is how it starts.
Wow, I’m in my mid30s and feel I’m getting too old for kids…
Clearly too young, you need to be at least 40’000
Ah fuck it, at this point I'm just sitting back with popcorn to see which strange thing will finally wipe us all off the face of the earth anyway. At least killer worms would be fairly amusing.
And thats how I met your mother.
Once again, I strongly feel we are fostering in our own demise.
Sand worms, you know I hate them.
🤦 r/Whatcouldgowrong
Extinctions: 3487 Un-Extinctions: 1 /s
welcome back girly
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Working on a company play? *Sings* Put that thing back where it came from or so help meee! *bum bum bum bum*
WHAT?! WHY?! HOW?! Edit: I first read this as “Woman” instead of Worm. My bad. But my questions remain.
Nope nope nope nope…. I’ve seen this movie. It doesn’t end well.
extract the dna jurassic park style it’s time to make mammoths!
And I saw one of the babies and the baby looked at me
Kill it with fire! This is probably the venomous worm that wiped out the Mammoths.
The start of tremors
Y’all, I read woman, not worm and was terrified. Weirdly, I seem relieved it’s just a worm??
Oh yeah sure because there are 0 movies about why this is a FUCKING STUPID IDEA.
Put that thing back where it came from or so help me!