Worm Charmers

[Panda]

Hey, Dune fans. Lol. I was reading some stuff about worm behavior and found out that people can cause tons of worms to shoot up to the surface by placing a metal steak in the ground and loudly rubbing another piece of metal. An experiment was done by worm charmers (people collecting them as bait) to prove that they do this as an escape response from moles, not as a signal to rub up against one another and mate when they sense vibrations caused by rain.

[Hobo Joe]

[knorke]

i want to see the moles these worms must flee from.

[Master-Athmos]

What's new about this? There for a long time have been those metal sticks you put in the ground which is bundled to some sort of electric device which vibrates / generates waves in the ground that make the worms dig up. It's used by fishermen...

[Panda]

What's new about this? There for a long time have been those metal sticks you put in the ground which is bundled to some sort of electric device which vibrates / generates waves in the ground that make the worms dig up. It's used by fishermen...

They didn't know why rubbing metal sticks against metal steaks that were put into the ground worked.

i want to see the moles these worms must flee from.

Lol. It's kind of cute.

[knorke]

oooooh.
omg i saw the picture, "dune" and thought this was some "in-fantasy-science" but the wormrider people on dune and was like wtf thats random.
actually still a bit random but yea, moles are cool.

[KDR_11k]

A mole could be considered cute or a horrible monstrosity. Look at those ugly claws!

[Argh]

Worm-grunting is indeed a funky phenomenon.

[PicassoCT]

They used those rods to collect worms in chernobyll to compare the mutation rate among them. (some worms there get 25 cms lons)

[Panda]

Neat. I hadn't heard about that.

[Jazcash]

I heard UK worms are super sized.

[Columbus]

25cm? That's not'n!
In Estonia, I've found some longer than half a friggin meter! Pretty scary, really.
Just have to know, where to look

[Hobo Joe]

I saw Irwin holding a ~3 foot worm somewhere in Australia once. That was intimidating. They were like 2 inches in diameter.

[Tribulex]

i would post a zwzsg gif here of animated TA worms but i forgot the url to his site.

[Tribulex]

Thx for pm zwzsg

[Panda]

Oh, no! The units are being eaten by giant worms! Cool gif.

[Tribulex]

do you play spring/ota? Or do you just like hanging out with a bunch of trollish teenagers online? just wondering

[Panda]

I'm just hanging out and looking at all of the games.