Scientists find fossil of enormous bug

metalinvader · 11-21-2007, 11:47 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071121/ap_on_sc/biggest_bug_ever;_ylt=At0kpRdNYhC8D5rdd_HQmkYPLBIF

8 feet freakin' long...All I can picture is that scene from Clash of the Titans...

ClintonHammond · 11-21-2007, 11:59 AM

I donno about anybody else, but it makes me glad I wasn't around 390-million-years ago! LOL

Yer gonna need a bigger boat!

,-)

herr gruber · 11-21-2007, 01:50 PM

Empire Of The Ants! Starring Joan Collins! A True Story! Suddenly!

indy34 · 11-22-2007, 12:44 AM

bloody hell thats as long as my whip

Gustav · 11-23-2007, 08:05 PM

I like this part:"Hundreds of millions of years ago, these sea scorpions had the upper hand over vertebrates — backboned animals like ourselves."

Imagine if they had won the arms race instead of us.

I just saw The Mist too. If you've seen it, you know why that's relevant.

Matinee Idyll · 11-23-2007, 08:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by indy34

bloody hell thats as long as my whip

And almost as long as my ****!

ResidentAlien · 11-23-2007, 08:55 PM

Reminds me of Arthur Clarke's Songs of Distant Earth.

Fantastic book.