Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/31/sandworms-are-real.html
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Not the Dune kind, but…
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Yes. For now.
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Somebody call Kevin Bacon
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I always felt really, really bad for Chekov and Captain Terrell. Those ear worm things were super nasty/creepy.
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Yeah, it’s just a niche waiting to be filled. Give them time.
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Wonderful. Clowns, snakes, spiders, and now these damn things. Thanks a lot.
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It’s like a giant ant lion. The aliens are us.
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Larval form of the Sarlac?
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Gee. That’s from one of the later sequels, right? Or is it the TV series? (It looks too fancy for the original.)
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At first, I was all “neat! It’s iridescent.”
Then I was all “holy hell, what nightmare fuel!”
Now I’m all “you really suck* sometimes, @beschizza.”
*Pun intended.
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A crab must have set out a thumper as a prank.
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Terrell’s self-disintegration pretty much took care of that earache, though.
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And this, perhaps the most bizarre thing I’ve read on Wikipedia in a long, long time:
The name “Bobbit worm” was coined in the 1996 book Coral Reef Animals of the Indo-Pacific, in reference to Lorena Bobbitt,[8] who was then very much in the public consciousness. The name is inspired only by the scissor-like jaws of the worm; the common supposition from the name that female eunicids cut off the males’ penises is baseless, and the worms in fact lack penises entirely, as they are broadcast spawners.
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Oh… is that really a thing? Or has someone mocked it up as a homage to poor old chang’s dreams of a graboid museum? Though realistically chang would have a graboid museum and convenience store.
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