The scientific research was tending towards imitating the worm, studying how it lives and the effect of that on man, maybe we could use one or two way and see what they are after. Life's void can be filled if this people can look deeper than studying worms.
Could that be for an extra terrestial bodies. Are there futuristic probe made and they showed those in outer space are worms? I am yet to get a foot on this things yet.
But we kept studying worms and paid heavily for it. Even the NASA were heavily involved in this research.