Hey All You Buggers

[phee]

Interesting story.... I love stuff like this, even though some others might find it frightening

Here

[freydis]

wow.....

that's kind of....scary......

[Msterbeau]

I heard that on NPR this morning. Glad we don't have to deal with them now!!

[phee]

I heard that on NPR this morning. Glad we don't have to deal with them now!!

Yeah.... the sci fi channel will probably make a movie about it....

But then again.... we do have Cheney...

[SuZQZ]

It does bring to mind one of those old, black and white, cheesy movies with cavemen and dinosaurs... can easily picture giant bugs added into the mix!

[phee]

It does bring to mind one of those old, black and white, cheesy movies with cavemen and dinosaurs... can easily picture giant bugs added into the mix!

I think the women on this board have strange sexual fantacies involving giant bug sex...

[nilhil_glory]

theres also been discoveries of fossilzed millipeds actually larger than that scorpion....

and another aspect is

most of our ocean floor remains undiscoverd we could have something crawling around there scarier than that....

and there is a chance that they could possibly find fossilized spiders and other types of insects just as big

[phee]

theres also been discoveries of fossilzed millipeds actually larger than that scorpion....

and another aspect is

most of our ocean floor remains undiscoverd we could have something crawling around there scarier than that....

and there is a chance that they could possibly find fossilized spiders and other types of insects just as big

Indeed

[Kit Kat P]

I had to send that to all my friends that hate bugs, ty

[GOREgeouslyDecorated]

that was really fuckin' interesting - thanx for sharin Phee

[Homicidalheathen]

I was just talking with someone about this the other day.....what if you could go back in time via time machine to the age when T-rex was the least of your worries, check out the bugs!!!

[Gaf The Horse With Tears]

um... Sea Scorpions existed 400million years ago... T-rex was about 65mllion. Nothing to worry about.

[LuluVox]

I heard that on NPR this morning.

Same here. Hearing reporter-dude say "they were like MEAT SUBMARINES!!" made me laugh pretty hard.

[Destroit]

What I'm wondering is HOW they got so big...having exoskeletons and all. The exoskeleton is a good reason insects are as small as they are now...maybe it was REALLY warm back then all the time? I'm only guessing, I haven't brushed up on any prehistorical science or anything in awhile.

[Head Wreck]

yes Mesothelae was 1/2 meter in size

[phee]

What I'm wondering is HOW they got so big...having exoskeletons and all. The exoskeleton is a good reason insects are as small as they are now...maybe it was REALLY warm back then all the time? I'm only guessing, I haven't brushed up on any prehistorical science or anything in awhile.

A lot more oxygan in the biosphere back then...

[Head Wreck]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9ZWyyCrRf0

[SuZQZ]

I think the women on this board have strange sexual fantacies involving giant bug sex...

Take "giant bug" out of the above quote and replace with "hot, deviant" and it would be more accurate

[creatureofthenyte]

This thread bugged me