We've all seen this movie before, and we know what happens!The worms, which are about the size of the tip of a pen, were aboard Columbia as a life sciences experiment that was sponsored by NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, Calif. The worms were being flown to test a new synthetic nutrient solution and were to have been analyzed the day the shuttle landed.
New synthetic nutrient solution, exposure to space, accident happens, you know where I'm going, don't you.
Instead, the canisters fell from the sky inside a shuttle middeck locker, landing somewhere in eastern Texas, the primary debris recovery site. The nutrient solution, which was sealed in the Petri dishes along with the worms, evidently proved more than adequate, as the creatures not only survived, but thrived, cycling through four or five generations in the three months since the accident.
I expect reports of giant worms rampaging across Texas, eating herds of cattle and tourists any day now. My god, the 4th ID is still in Iraq, who will stop these Giant Space Worms! It's Bush's fault!
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