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ooze,contract,R lyeh,north carolina,slime,bryozoa Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer

Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer

posted by atara 4 months 1 week ago • 22215 views
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These creatures were found in the sewer under Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC. Speculation 'round the campfire is that they're bryozoans, although there's some debate about that.

Other theories floated: annelid worms, cnideria, slime molds, and shoggoth spawn.

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Oh god it looks like meat! HEART MEAT! wtf indeed


written by rosekat  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Is that what happens to discarded tumors from cancer operations?


written by notarobot  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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group living worms?


written by grinter  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Ugh, someone please tell me what they hell this is!


written by Darkhand  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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ALIENS!!!!!!!!!


written by ant  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Omg. At times it looked like what I imagine an actual testicle to look like inside the scrotum, and then at other times it looked like a giant wall-vagina trying to eat a meatball. I'm truly horrified.


written by EndAll  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Amazing! Wikipedia doesn't seem like much of a help.


written by rychan  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Unless someone explains straight-away what this actually is, I'm calling a *viral on this.

If this is real, wouldn't it be a break-through scientific discovery of a new life form? COME ON!


written by Jaace  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Invocations (viral) cannot be called by Jaace because Jaace is not privileged - sorry.


written by siftbot  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Why doesn't the sewer robot have a flamethrower?


written by Crake  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Dude, its what happens to lung chunks.


written by Creature  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Mr. Hanky is a lot cuter in the cartoon.


written by therealblankman  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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oh I've seen this shit before.... one of these flew down and attached itself to Spock's back, they damn near blinded him killing it. If it wasn't for his Vulcan physiology he would have probably been blinded forever!


written by deathcow  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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"THE CREATURE THAT BEAR GRYLLS WOULD NOT EAT"


written by deathcow  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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They should take a DNA sample and find out.


written by jwray  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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If this is genuinely a 'mystery' life form, then this is very hard to believe. That's not to say it isn't true - i wouldn't call fake out of hand, i'm just saying that it's hard to believe.

Because there's only a few alternatives:
1) This type of thing has always existed on our planet, we've just never realised it.
2) It ..evolved.. over the space of, what, 20 years? Or less?
3) It isn't native to this planet.

And all of those are hard to believe when you account that this was taken in a sewer. 1 and 3 are unlikely to be true for a sewer and 2 is to our knowledge impossible.


written by dannym3141  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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i hope to fuck these are real but massive props to those responisble if not.

the slight lurch at 0:59 made my arse cheeks clench.


written by deputydog  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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That's creepy as hell. Somehow more so with the absence of sound.


written by dag  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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You guys have it all wrong. What we need to do, is:
-Check for the presence of any evil guy paintings in the closest museum.
-Get a sample of the slime monster and put it in a toaster to make it dance.
-Then, of course, hose down Dan Aykroyd with it.


written by JiggaJonson  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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That is truly some horrifying stuff. I'm at a loss. All I can say is W. T. F.

I hope someone's going to try to figure out what those creepy bastards are. This can't be the end of the story: "Hey, Bob. Look at this video of what I found in the sewer. Let's put it on YouTube and forget about it."


written by lucky760  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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It's the next evolutionary life form. First, the dinosaurs, then us. I suspect these guys will be fighting the cockroaches for the planet once were gone.


written by videosiftbannedme  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I, for one, welcome our new ... overlords.


written by cybrbeast  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Holy motherfucking shit... that is truly crazy looking.

I really wonder if it is a viral or not... anyone know the source??


written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Where are the Space Marines and Sigourney Weaver when you need them?


written by NobleOne  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Must've been all that mexican food I ate...


written by rottenseed  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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From YT description:

...notice the retraction of a stiff nail like object from the third and last creature from the seam in the pipe.

Gah! I think it's The Flood.


written by schmawy  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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sentient haggis


written by festusdirk  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I created an account just to comment on this crazy thing.

What freaks me out is that I live above this road, right across the street from this place. I submitted the link to WRAL, our local news station. Perhaps they can shed some light on this.

Gah. Watch it be some bacterial organism that's been down there for ages.


written by zenandcoffee  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I look at this thing and it confirms in my mind that there is no God.


written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I knew they'd be back. http://www.legendsofhorror.org/pages/critters.html


written by chilaxe  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Mommy! Where does doody go when we flush? It goes to the silent ones dear.


written by redyellowblue  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Our turds are evolving! Run for your lives!


written by blankfist  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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At first I was freaked out but after watching it a couple of times I think its fake at least in my opinion could be wrong.


written by ctrlaltbleach  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I knew there was a reason I played that awful sewer shark game...


written by Croccydile  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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The Zerg have finally arrived.


written by Psychologic  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I thought everyone knew about these, they're C.H.U.D. eggs.


written by Drachen_Jager  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^ponceleon:
I look at this thing and it confirms in my mind that there is no God.


See now, I look at it, and it confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Old Gods really do exist.

We're looking into the maw of madness, my friend.


written by KnivesOut  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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The Blob.


written by Napalm  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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http://www.wimp.com/lifeform/

Go here now, the original poster set the video to private...

Suspicious? I say yes.


written by zenandcoffee  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^Psychologic:
The Zerg have finally arrived.


Yeah, watch this be a viral stunt by Blizzard to promote Starcraft 2.


written by furrycloud  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Lots of invertebrate water creatures out of water look really alien. I'd like to see this thing under water. What if then it looks like a Sea Anemone. Those things shrink back in. My friend thinks this video is totally fake saying how that creature used up all its energy just to flinch like that. Which i say .. blah! This vid looks completely real. Notice there is no obsessive camera focusing, or mundane camera movement to simulate "Look how real this is".


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written by Ornthoron  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I love how they have to comment on everything obvious in that trailer.


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Anyone? Anyone? All right: SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS.


written by Crake  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Touche, that is some serious C'thulu shit right there...

>> ^KnivesOut:
>> ^ponceleon:
I look at this thing and it confirms in my mind that there is no God.


See now, I look at it, and it confirms beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Old Gods really do exist.

We're looking into the maw of madness, my friend.



written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Oh, word on the street is that this is a pod of something called Tubifex worms which are often used as fish food.

http://www.fishchannel.com/images/exclusives/aquarium-fish-international/tubifex-500-c.jpg


written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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^ Hmmm. Doesn't look very similar though. Looks more like a solid bit of tissue.


written by dag  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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^
The post I saw said that they are known to form "cyst sacks." I'll see what I can dig up...

Edit: here's a description of the cyst...

http://www.springerlink.com/content/g50476g52883m413/

Edit 2: They can also survive in areas so heavily polluted with organic matter that almost no other species can endure. By forming a protective cyst and lowering its metabolic rate, T. tubifex can survive drought and food shortage. Encystment may also function in dispersal of the worm.


written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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MOAR VESPENE GAS REQUIRED


written by ElJardinero  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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In other news, Mr. Goatse, of internet fame, recently moved from Christmas Island to the neighborhood of Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC.


written by spawnflagger  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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It's either the natural selection 2 team with a viral or wesker actually managed to release uroboros into the sewage system.


written by Seric  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Apparently it's been identified as a species of Bryozoan by a local wildlife expert.


written by Pprt  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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And another expert says it's NOT Bryozoan:
"Dr. Timothy S. Wood who is an expert on freshwater bryozoa and an officer with the International Bryozoology Association. I sent along the video and this was his reponse…

Thanks for the video – I had not see it before. No, these are not bryozoans! They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video."

This video makes it a little more believable that it could be a clump of these worms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn9kh7MaFQQ&
if you imagine that they would look deflated and slimy when the water in the pipe is drained.


written by rychan  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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^ Told ya it was Tubifex!

If you read my links above, they describe exactly what is being shown; the tubifex, when faced with harsh conditions, clump into a "cyst."


written by ponceleon  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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^ I don't think it's a cyst. I don't really have any expertise in the area, but my guess would be that the cyst is not a colony related arrangement and it is not a short term transition. I would guess cysts are very small (single worm) and inert.


written by rychan  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^grinter:
group living worms?


no love for grinter


written by vairetube  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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"Mystery Life Form in NC Sewer"

Firstly, that is not NC Sewer!
Secondly, how on earth did you get a hold of my last rectal exam video? O.o
Thirdly, ... uh, ignore the secondly. That IS the NC Sewer after all. Yeah, that's the ticket!


written by pierrekrahn  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^ElJardinero:
MOAR VESPENE GAS REQUIRED


YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG


written by CaptainPlanet  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Looks like the mushroom king got hit with the de-evolution gun again.


written by Tymbrwulf  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I thought that bryozoans were more hard rigid looking?
Maybe I am mistaken?


written by inflatablevagina  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I think I just killed one of those in Dead Space...


written by r10k  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


written by ReverendTed  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Seriously. What the fuck have we created?!? It seems they don't like the light. They clench up when they sense the light hitting them. If we're lucky, they'll only come out at night to feed on our sleeping children.


written by ForgedReality  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^ponceleon:
^ Told ya it was Tubifex!

If you read my links above, they describe exactly what is being shown; the tubifex, when faced with harsh conditions, clump into a "cyst."


That would also explain the protuding tendril seen extending vertically from the last sack in the video. It was just a little worm all along!


written by KnivesOut  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^zenandcoffee:
I created an account just to comment on this crazy thing.

What freaks me out is that I live above this road, right across the street from this place. I submitted the link to WRAL, our local news station. Perhaps they can shed some light on this.

Gah. Watch it be some bacterial organism that's been down there for ages.


So WRAL picked this up, and it will be on the news at 5:30 tonight. Yay! They actually listened to me.

https://twitter.com/wral

Apparently it is some type of worm, but not the tubifex....atleast so news 14 reports. Hopefully WRAL will do a better job reporting it!


written by zenandcoffee  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Discarded parachute.


written by Payback  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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If you read the paper in poncelon's link, you'll see that cysts are on the order of 2 mm. So, as rychan pointed out these are not cysts. Tubifex do sometimes live in close aggregations, with their hardened tubes adjacent to one another. Again, my guess is that this is aggregation of tubifex or another annelid.


written by grinter  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Life forms....
Ti ny lit tle life forms

dee dee doo doo doo doo DOO!


written by MarineGunrock  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Killer Ball Sacks from Outer Space!


written by raverman  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Needs sparkles!


written by MaxWilder  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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And here's the writeup from the local news station WRAL:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5483707/

Their expert votes Bryozoa.

I thought it was interesting that the sewer line is only 6 inches across. I got the impression that the space was much larger, 18 to 24 inches across.


written by rychan  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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grooooooooooooooooossssss


written by Raaagh  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^Ornthoron:



"Starring Steve McQueen...and a cast of exciting young people"
LOLZIPAN!


written by Raaagh  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^CaptainPlanet:
>> ^ElJardinero:
MOAR VESPENE GAS REQUIRED


YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG


YOU REQUIRE MOAR VESPENE GAS.


written by ElJardinero  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I first thought it was a man size sewer but then look 6"CP which probably stands for 6" copper pipe, the distance travelled by the camera (LC1) did confirm my assessment. So the thing must be 1 or 2 inches size. First thing every one should have looked first...


written by Red  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^ReverendTed:
Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.


obscure james cameron "aliens" reference!!
10pts!!


written by enoch  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Wow, I can't believe I got a downvote...my comment wasn't even controversial or neo-con political agenda-ish.


written by Jaace  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Some sort of egg sack? God help us when they hatch.


written by toymachines  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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http://gizmodo.com/5305380/disgusting-sewer-creature-update-its-fing-real

Tubifex it is. Ponceleon called it.


written by blankfist  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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still no love for grinter or zenandcoffee.. the REAL heroes.


written by vairetube  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I want to poke it with a stick


written by QuadraPixel  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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We must prepare for the coming of Gozer the Gozarian! All hail the mighty Gozer for it shall come to save us all, starting with the sewers of Cameron Village in Raleigh, NC!!!

(Yes, I've been playing the new Ghostbusters game... )


written by OpticNerve  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Annelid worms? Somewhere, SHODAN is giggling maniacally...


written by Payback  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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I agree with Dag,

>> ^dag:
^ Hmmm. Doesn't look very similar though. Looks more like a solid bit of tissue.

Nor briozoan, nor tubifex it is ...


written by Red  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^Red:
I first thought it was a man size sewer but then look 6"CP which probably stands for 6" copper pipe, the distance travelled by the camera (LC1) did confirm my assessment. So the thing must be 1 or 2 inches size. First thing every one should have looked first...

I wasn't really sure about the size of the pipe at first, but what tipped me off was the movement of the camera and the water running by.
Admittedly, the units on the display should have been my first clue.


written by ReverendTed  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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Holy shit, i'm never going down in the sewers again... I mean, I'm never going.


written by BicycleRepairMan  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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My god! It's a series of tubes, like the internet!! now it's alive!


written by ravioli  | 4 months 1 week ago | CH
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