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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

Roll out the bug spray.

It's cool, but I still don't consider something a bug that lives underwater. ;)

The freaky thing is that a horse-sized scorpionish thing appeared in my dreams a couple days ago.

Interesting how humans grow taller while everything else is shrinking.

reminds me of the Flintstones

You'd need a missile launcher instead of bug spray!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

Kinda makes me glad I didn't live back then...

It's cool, but I still don't consider something a bug that lives underwater. ;)

I'm guessing that's so you can justify your eating of underwater crustaceans without thinking it equivalent to eating, say, a woodlouse? :p

Imagine how much butter we'd have to have melted for that!

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/NSG/Sign.jpg

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u275/Gravlen/NSG/Sign.jpg

I have an ex-girlfriend that should have come with the same handling instructions. :p

an eight foot tall scorpion? Sweet. Imagine catching one of those things while net fishing.

Rolling squid;13236303']an eight foot tall scorpion? Sweet. Imagine catching one of those things while net fishing.

Imagine one of those catching YOU while you're net fishing. :p

I would so ride that thing.

I bet it tastes like chicken.

The amount of oxegyn during that time was 5x greater than there is today, thus allowing all life to burn more energy and hunt for food more hench growing larger. think of it in terms of riding a bike at high altitudes where the air is thinner.

The amount of oxygen during that time was 5x greater than there is today, thus allowing all life to burn more energy and hunt for food more, hence growing larger. Think of it in terms of riding a bike at high altitudes where the air is thinner...

..., hence growing larger on your mountain bike? I'm not sure I want to follow your line of thought..

Speaking of big bugs... http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This sparked my interest not long ago. It can lift up to 70lbs in its claws, has a hybrid gill/lung and drowns if submerged in water, yet needs to remain moist to breathe.

Interesting, no?

Speaking of big bugs... http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This sparked my interest not long ago. It can lift up to 70lbs in its claws, has a hybrid gill/lung and drowns if submerged in water, yet needs to remain moist to breathe.

Interesting, no?

GET AWAY FROM HER, YOU BITCH!

Speaking of big bugs... http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This sparked my interest not long ago. It can lift up to 70lbs in its claws, has a hybrid gill/lung and drowns if submerged in water, yet needs to remain moist to breathe.

Ironically, I also can lift 70 lbs, drown if submerged in water and need to remain moist to breathe.

The amount of oxegyn during that time was 5x greater than there is today, thus allowing all life to burn more energy and hunt for food more hench growing larger. think of it in terms of riding a bike at high altitudes where the air is thinner.

Note: Amount of oxygen not really five times greater. Nor even that much higher than it is today. The high point was in the Mesozoic, and that was just above 30%. Quite frankly, you can't go much above 30% before things start exploding.

Second note: Being aquatic, this wouldn't give a damn about atmospheric oxygen.

Note: Amount of oxygen not really five times greater. Nor even that much higher than it is today. The high point was in the Mesozoic, and that was just above 30%. Quite frankly, you can't go much above 30% before things start exploding.

Second note: Being aquatic, this wouldn't give a damn about atmospheric oxygen.

The estimate I found for peak atmosphereic O2 is 35%, so close enough. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn8074.html

And indeed five times the current level would be rather difficult. A 105% O2 atmosphere would, however be... interesting. ;)

Don't ask me how, but I misread it as "That's one big hug!" (must be my computer screen...)

Anyway, it figures that bug is that big- they'd need to be in order for the dinosaurs to know that they're there...

Ironically, I also can lift 70 lbs, drown if submerged in water and need to remain moist to breathe.

Ditto. I've even been accused of being crabby. ;)

Anyway, it figures that bug is that big- they'd need to be in order for the dinosaurs to know that they're there...

You mean, they had to be that big so the dinosaurs could swat 'em for being pesky bastages, just like we do with their smaller offspring today!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

lol, reminds me of Starship troopers. :p

You mean, they had to be that big so the dinosaurs could swat 'em for being pesky bastages, just like we do with their smaller offspring today!

*nods* Yeah...if they're too small, they can't do their jobs. :D

Speaking of big bugs... http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This sparked my interest not long ago. It can lift up to 70lbs in its claws, has a hybrid gill/lung and drowns if submerged in water, yet needs to remain moist to breathe.

Interesting, no?

More like fucking terrifying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

Is it just me, or has the human sillouhette they used for size comparison been pumping some serious iron?

Is it just me, or has the human sillouhette they used for size comparison been pumping some serious iron?

If you were going to be up beside a huge lobster thing, you'd want to work out first.

Slice the lemons! Get the tartar sauce! Melt the butter! I'm going in.

Slice the lemons! Get the tartar sauce! Melt the butter! I'm going in.

He's going in!

...

I wouldn't.

Speaking of big bugs... http://vom.it/wp-content/uploads/coconut_crab.jpg

This sparked my interest not long ago. It can lift up to 70lbs in its claws, has a hybrid gill/lung and drowns if submerged in water, yet needs to remain moist to breathe.

Interesting, no?Ah yes, the Coconut crab...

Story from our Island Quarantine area... a shipment of Coconut crabs was intercepted and placed in the quarantine wharehouse to be shipped back to where they came from. the idiot (and you'll soon know why I use such a label) put the crabs in cages made of Chicken wire. now these crabs, husk and eat coconuts so you can imagine what they though of the chicken wire cages they were in...

the offical, who's computer I was working on, chuckled as he told me about the Great Crab Roundup in the warehouse the next morning... :p

Ironically, I also can lift 70 lbs, drown if submerged in water and need to remain moist to breathe.but can you hust a coconut with your bare cla... er... hands?

That's the second largest bug I've ever seen! :eek:

I have an ex-girlfriend that should have come with the same handling instructions. :p

Don't we all LG, don't we all?:cool:

Ah yes, the Coconut crab...

Story from our Island Quarantine area... a shipment of Coconut crabs was intercepted and placed in the quarantine wharehouse to be shipped back to where they came from. the idiot (and you'll soon know why I use such a label) put the crabs in cages made of Chicken wire. now these crabs, husk and eat coconuts so you can imagine what they though of the chicken wire cages they were in...

the offical, who's computer I was working on, chuckled as he told me about the Great Crab Roundup in the warehouse the next morning... :p


That's awesome!

When I found the picture, I just had to know more about them. I spent the better part of two hours surfing wiki and youtube X3 I like that they pretty much eat anything that can't outrun them, coconuts, rotting leaves, garbage, dead rats, baby turtles. X333 I want one of a pet.

Have you seen one in person? Are they really those pretty, bright colors, or is that just a trick of the camera?

He's going in!

...

I wouldn't.

...is this a rare moment of sanity?

I have an ex-girlfriend that should have come with the same handling instructions.

Don't we all LG, don't we all?:cool:

er.... not me? :)

Finally, another use for the Zweihander!

Well, aside from chopping off a horse's legs in battle.

er.... not me? :)

What about that one girl that you drunkingly made out with in college but wouldn't stop stalking you even though you explained to her that you were drunk and it meant nothing? ;) You know the one I'm talking about, the one that sent you those nude pictures of her, trying to seduce you to the hot lesbian side?

I'm kidding of course. :)

...is this a rare moment of sanity?

8 ft. Scorpions tend to jump-start my survival instinct. :p

er.... not me? :)

Maybe LG should have been more Politically Correct and said "Ex-significant other" instead of "ex-Girlfriend":p

Charlotte's Moral: Never laugh off science fiction. Remember when we thought space travel far off back in the thirties? It's real, now.

That's awesome!

When I found the picture, I just had to know more about them. I spent the better part of two hours surfing wiki and youtube X3 I like that they pretty much eat anything that can't outrun them, coconuts, rotting leaves, garbage, dead rats, baby turtles. X333 I want one of a pet.

Have you seen one in person? Are they really those pretty, bright colors, or is that just a trick of the camera?

not a live one. but one stuffed and mounted on a display of "critters to look out for" at our island inspection site.

yes, the colors are like that... and they do get THAT BIG!

I've heard that their meat has a hint of coconut flavoring in them.

8 ft. Scorpions tend to jump-start my survival instinct. :p

*drags 8' dead scorpion out of sea*

pssh. Wimp.

K...I need a really big pot of boiling water...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

No, but you would have had Steve Irwin working for Terminix in such a case...

"We'ar out for the DAN-ger-us Sea Scorpion... It's got MASSIVE claws that could cut a man in half in one chop!... You've got to respect the Sea scorpion... Now watch as I wrestle with this creature so I can polish its carapace! Do not try this at home, kids...."

Interesting how humans grow taller while everything else is shrinking.
We have better nutrition than our ancestors which allows us to reach the heights our genes tell our bodies to reach instead of being stunted. Also, a relatively short period of getting taller doesn't mean anything on a geological or evolutionary time scale.

fire a Nuke down a Bug hole ,thats a lot of dead Bugs

What about that one girl that you drunkingly made out with in college but wouldn't stop stalking you even though you explained to her that you were drunk and it meant nothing? ;) You know the one I'm talking about, the one that sent you those nude pictures of her, trying to seduce you to the hot lesbian side?

I'm kidding of course. :)

That would be true except for the fact that is didn't happen, and that I never got drunk in college... that's not what yer boring Phi Beta Kappas are like.

Maybe LG should have been more Politically Correct and said "Ex-significant other" instead of "ex-Girlfriend":p

I don't have any of those.... anymore..... ;)

You'd need a missile launcher instead of bug spray!

RP idea....

No, but you would have had Steve Irwin working for Terminix in such a case...

"We'ar out for the DAN-ger-us Sea Scorpion... It's got MASSIVE claws that could cut a man in half in one chop!... You've got to respect the Sea scorpion... Now watch as I wrestle with this creature so I jam my thumb in it's butthole! Do not try this at home, kids...."

Fixed!

See? http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=13236947

:D

That would be true except for the fact that is didn't happen, and that I never got drunk in college... that's not what yer boring Phi Beta Kappas are like.

shhh... you hear that?

That's the sound of alot of fantasies being crushed by Katganistan... :p

shhh... you hear that?

That's the sound of alot of fantasies being crushed by Katganistan... :p

Dicto simpliciter? I daresay you are very much -unwarrantedly - judging others by your own standards.. ;P

*hands Junii some kleenex for his tears*

shhh... you hear that?

That's the sound of alot of fantasies being crushed by Katganistan... :p

Sounds remarkably like a bunch of guys quietly weeping in their beers.:D

Dicto simpliciter? I daresay you are very much -unwarrantedly - judging others by your own standards.. ;P

*hands Junii some kleenex for his tears*

You say tears, but we all know we're thinking something else.

That would be true except for the fact that is didn't happen, and that I never got drunk in college... that's not what yer boring Phi Beta Kappas are like.



I don't have any of those.... anymore..... ;)

*sicks pet 8' marine scorpion on Kat as defence*

*realized a marine scorpion can't go on land and kats hate water*

*backs away slowly*

You say tears, but we all know we're thinking something else.

There is rarely a moment in my life where I am not very, very glad that I have no need or reason whatsoever to take any responsibility whatsoever for any thought that any poster on NSG might or might not have.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=AlT39WzbJRRfvQs_nd3CuOKs0NUE

Do you think the Terminex guy would run for it, or would he and the Orkin man team up against this?

(*scoffs*) WHO IS this "big bug" who dares challenge me? And as for for this "Terminix guy" and this "Orkin man", I have no need of them to help me exterminate this "big bug", so they would do best to remain on their knees. But now for this big bug:

Come to me, big bug, if you dare! I defy you! Come! Come and kneel before Zod!...ZOD!

(*shoots the "big bug" with eye lasers, utterly destroying it*)

There! Now you humans have no need to fear any "big bugs" or anything else. Now it is time for all of you to resume kneeling before Zod!

(*scoffs*) WHO IS this "big bug" who dares challenge me? And as for for this "Terminix guy" and this "Orkin man", I have no need of them to help me exterminate this "big bug", so they would do best to remain on their knees. But now for this big bug:

Come to me, big bug, if you dare! I defy you! Come! Come and kneel before Zod!...ZOD!

(*shoots the "big bug" with eye lasers, utterly destroying it*)

There! Now you humans have no need to fear any "big bugs" or anything else. Now it is time for all of you to resume kneeling before Zod!

You play too much C & C mate, although it is a pretty kick-ass game