Comments on: Barry the Giant Sea Worm: Fantasy Turns Real in the U.K. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/ Sat, 11 May 2013 22:50:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Ste Beresford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10686 Ste Beresford Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10686 Botfly larva, on the other hand... Botfly larva, on the other hand…

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10684 Anonymous Mon, 03 Sep 2012 19:05:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10684 Yeah, no, That never happened. If you're going to make up stories, they might be more believable if you didn't sound like Ralph Wiggum. Yeah, no, That never happened. If you’re going to make up stories, they might be more believable if you didn’t sound like Ralph Wiggum.

]]> By: Freya Mears http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10683 Freya Mears Mon, 03 Sep 2012 13:36:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10683 It could be used to help cancer patients, or anyone else who needs constant blood tests or injected treatments, like dialysis. Permanently numb the injection/blood draw site. It could be used to help cancer patients, or anyone else who needs constant blood tests or injected treatments, like dialysis. Permanently numb the injection/blood draw site.

]]> By: Matt http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10679 Matt Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:39:57 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10679 In reply to the person insisting this be used to treat cancer patients. Permanent numbness is rare and the localised only to about 3cm around the sting wound. The amount you would have to supply (intravenously may I add) to alleviate the pain of internal cancers, would kill the patient then and there. Matt Stone PhD Human biology In reply to the person insisting this be used to treat cancer patients. Permanent numbness is rare and the localised only to about 3cm around the sting wound. The amount you would have to supply (intravenously may I add) to alleviate the pain of internal cancers, would kill the patient then and there.

Matt Stone
PhD Human biology

]]> By: squeemish http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10678 squeemish Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:52:20 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10678 4' long? Oh the humanity... I hate my life right now! 4′ long? Oh the humanity… I hate my life right now!

]]> By: s-man http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10677 s-man Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:37:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10677 I never seen anything like it it was crazy! it layed an egg it one of the staffers leg and he said It lived in his leg for weeks he said he could feel it moving around sometimes ! yuck I feel sorry for him and he still has it in his leg I never seen anything like it it was crazy! it layed an egg it one of the staffers leg and he said It lived in his leg for weeks he said he could feel it moving around sometimes ! yuck I feel sorry for him and he still has it in his leg

]]> By: Pucker and Bloat #5: Eunice | Cephalopodcast http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10676 Pucker and Bloat #5: Eunice | Cephalopodcast Wed, 27 May 2009 03:12:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10676 [...] jaws spread wide, waiting patiently for prey to wander by its snap trap mouth. They also sometimes arrive as unwelcome hitchhikers inside live rock and can grow to several meters ensconced in the protection of a reeftank. While naturally drab in [...] [...] jaws spread wide, waiting patiently for prey to wander by its snap trap mouth. They also sometimes arrive as unwelcome hitchhikers inside live rock and can grow to several meters ensconced in the protection of a reeftank. While naturally drab in [...]

]]> By: Pucker and Bloat #5: Eunice at CephalopodCast.com - The Ocean Podcast http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10675 Pucker and Bloat #5: Eunice at CephalopodCast.com - The Ocean Podcast Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:04:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10675 [...] jaws spread wide, waiting patiently for prey to wander by its snap trap mouth. They also sometimes arrive as unwelcome hitchhikers inside live rock and can grow to several meters ensconced in the protection of a reeftank. While naturally drab in [...] [...] jaws spread wide, waiting patiently for prey to wander by its snap trap mouth. They also sometimes arrive as unwelcome hitchhikers inside live rock and can grow to several meters ensconced in the protection of a reeftank. While naturally drab in [...]

]]> By: Rasselas http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10674 Rasselas Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:19:16 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10674 I agree resoundingly with the idea to use this for TERMINALLY ill cancer patients. It might only be a local (though permanent) anegelisic, imply that others with chronic pain in local regions might benefit as well. For example, it is known that those with leg amputations or such get a symptom known as "Amputated Limb Pain" or such. It's due partially to the brain rewiring itself, and the old brain region interpreting that as "ghost pain" or such. Anyways, wonder if a person who got a permanent local anagelesic would suffer the same fate? If not, then that means that there is a difference between losing a limb and losing sensation. Perhaps the local anagelisic could be applied to the stump of a lost limb to counteract ghost pain? On second thought, I just remembered that people with all limbs but paralysis exhibit ghost pain as well. So it follows that people once stung by the worm also experience ghost pain??? Bets are that chronic pain is still worse than intermittent ghost pain. I agree resoundingly with the idea to use this for TERMINALLY ill cancer patients. It might only be a local (though permanent) anegelisic, imply that others with chronic pain in local regions might benefit as well.

For example, it is known that those with leg amputations or such get a symptom known as “Amputated Limb Pain” or such. It’s due partially to the brain rewiring itself, and the old brain region interpreting that as “ghost pain” or such. Anyways, wonder if a person who got a permanent local anagelesic would suffer the same fate? If not, then that means that there is a difference between losing a limb and losing sensation. Perhaps the local anagelisic could be applied to the stump of a lost limb to counteract ghost pain?

On second thought, I just remembered that people with all limbs but paralysis exhibit ghost pain as well. So it follows that people once stung by the worm also experience ghost pain??? Bets are that chronic pain is still worse than intermittent ghost pain.

]]> By: Uncle Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10673 Uncle Al Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:04:21 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/04/09/barry-the-giant-sea-worm-fantasy-turns-real-in-the-uk/#comment-10673 Are they certain it's a boy? If not, "Barry" might give way to "Maggie" (Thatcher). No surrender, no retreat! That sting sounds like a miracle for people painfully dying of cancer. "Somewhere in Eden, now, a worm, a worm," Rydra Wong. Are they certain it’s a boy? If not, “Barry” might give way to “Maggie” (Thatcher). No surrender, no retreat! That sting sounds like a miracle for people painfully dying of cancer. “Somewhere in Eden, now, a worm, a worm,” Rydra Wong.

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