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    Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    07/01/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Someone needs to go back and re-document this with a better camera...
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    Image of charlesvillard charlesvillard
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    It got taken down, but for those who haven't gone looking; I found it!

    _profilepage

    Apparently they're annelid formations.

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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/30/09

    @Charles Villard: Video is fixed! You should be able to watch it above.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    As GalvinImbibery says above, some sciency guys think it might actually be knots of tubifex worms.

    [deepseanews.com]

    These worms will clump together tightly but these things appear more like nets or sheets of tissue rather than separate strands. I'm still leaning toward a viral campaign for a movie or perhaps a new entree at Applebee's. Whatever, it certainly has peaked my imagination.
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    Image of Alexis Alexis
    06/30/09

    @Grey_Area: Double Gak and an appetizer for $20!


    What a deal.

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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Video is down. And I suggest "GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR HELL-DEMONS" tag, personally. Monty got one.
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    Image of ArnoldDeepak ArnoldDeepak
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    they removed the vid...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...!!!! NOOO
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @ArnoldDeepak:

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    For those of you who doubt the existence of remote sewer cams, this a clip from a company in Portland, ME who inspect pipe systems with a little track-driven camera probe. Here they encounter some more active lifeforms:



    And now there will be some super-experts saying that the mole looked totally fake. This company has a bunch of clips including root cutting, a seawater intake pipe, and shots of their bitchin' 4x4.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @Grey_Area: And yes, I'm certain that the mysterious blobs in the Raleigh video are a very clever stunt.
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    Image of robotsattack robotsattack
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    It looks like a very clever special effect- maybe a combo of cgi and a real organism. But check out the movement of the water flow in the "sewer". I imagine that's a small model and not a man sized sewer that someone can walk thru. The flow just doesn't seem powerful enough for how "deep" it is. Also the camera looks too smooth, and not hand held.
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @robotsattack: I'm thinking it's all practical effects with clever editing. Good old-fashioned latex, puppetry, Kayro syrup and whatnot.


    It is meant to look like video from a remote camera in a smaller sewer pipe. This kind of equipment is in use, check out the system used by the city of Arlington, VA. It can inspect pipes as small as 6" across.

    [www.arlingtonva.us]

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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Now that's some weird shit.
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    Image of Palmerlime Palmerlime
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Or it was inspired by it, at least. Either way, I grabbed the movie before it was pulled so :P.
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    Image of Palmerlime Palmerlime
    06/30/09

    .@Palmerlime: Oh.. and the speed was adjusted, too. It was sped up to make the slime move faster. I pulled it into Final Cut and played it backwards. The string is obviously being picked up off camera and then pulled. In reverse and faster, the movements behave differently.


    I'm done now.

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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    06/30/09

    @Palmerlime: So do you subscribe to the Cloverfield 2 viral theory? This seems like a great deal of work and talent just for a gag.
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Its real. Its got to be. Its not a viral video. Its premoting nothing. If it was released whilst leading up to the cinema release of 'Slither' then yeah I would be dubious. But if and I mean a big 'IF' this shits (sorry), fake then the CGI is big budget movie quality. This looks very real. People are finding new specis all the time in undicovered parts of Rainforests. Weve discovered more of space than our own oceans. Why not find a new species closer to home. THE SHIT MONSTER. Watch Attenbourgh get his team together for a shit monster special. Yummy!!
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    Image of CoffeeJedi CoffeeJedi
    06/30/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard):

    Maybe the CGI is big budget movie quality because.... um, its for a big budget movie?


    Or, maybe its not CGI at all but simple latex and air bladders, old school Rick Baker style. We're so used to seeing bad CGI that when something that looks "too real" comes out, we forget the easiest alternative.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    @CoffeeJedi: Yeah, when the thing inflates you can see parts of the elastic goo sticking it to the walls detach like gelatin. It just looks like a really well-made but real-world special effect.
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    Image of se7a7n7 se7a7n7
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    It looks like the sewer walls have grown some nutsacks.
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    Image of Annalee Newitz Annalee Newitz
    06/30/09

    @se7a7n7: The question is whether this nutsack can trump Devastator's nutsack.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Clearly this is viral, as no sewer-cam has either the resolution, or the nice movement this has.
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    Image of smcallah smcallah
    06/30/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: What exactly leads you to say that no sewer-cam has the resolution for this?


    Those cameras are used to find problems in sewer lines that people cannot fit inside of, and if I can buy a home camcorder with 1080p resolution, I can imagine that commercial cameras used to inspect pipes can be had with YouTube video resolution.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    @smcallah: Have you ever seen a pipecam? It's bascially a giant armoured cable they jam down a pipe with a large machine. It has extremely limited mobility, and generally not a great picture quality as it doesn't really need one. It's just to find tree roots and cracks and the like. Anyways. Until you see one, don't bother inventing reasons why this could be plausible.


    It's clearly not. Anyone who thinks this is real needs a hobby.

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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    @smcallah: Here. Just to show you how unblievable gullible you are, here's a demonstration from an actual drain-scoping company:
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    Image of Artobot Artobot
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Yuuzhan Vong have infiltrated our planet!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!
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    Image of dethklokso dethklokso
    06/30/09

    @Artobot: the beginnings of the earth worldbrain perhaps? perhaps global warming is just a cover up for Vongforming the planet.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    06/30/09

    @dethklokso: Vongforming is less of a danger than us realizing we're part of a poorly-plotted and adolescent universe.


    Now if you'll excuse me, my parents just died in a fire caused by the Emperor, and I have to go train to avenge them by killing the agent who caused their deaths who also just happens to be my childhood girlfriend, a smoking hot, large-breasted spy.

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    Image of Islandkiwi Islandkiwi
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    Let's call it a retch, because I just did.
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    06/30/09

    In reply to Video Footage Surfaces of North Carolina Sewer Creatures
    If that is not a viral ad for something I will eat my hat with my head in it.
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    Image of AlanIn4D AlanIn4D
    07/01/09

    @Perhaps Not: if you won't do what you just said, then you've just wasted comment space for something completely and utterly pointless.
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    07/01/09

    @AlanIn4D: Welcome to the internet!
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