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krode		2005-12-01 01:12:59 AM

oops, link didn't seem to work...

pops

A pic for the ones too lazy to click!

/10 points if you can figure out what the name triops means...
//see images for hint!

South		2005-12-01 01:13:49 AM

Was this after Xenu blew up all the souls he collected in volcanoes with thermonuclear bombs?

Find me Xenu tracks, then I'll be impressed

/bagging on Scientology = new pastime
//too easy

Tekdude		2005-12-01 01:18:07 AM

LIKE OMG!? Do they hovar?! WITHOUT FLAPPING?!

/obscure?
//any NS Players?
///Sniper Marine?

saarq		2005-12-01 01:36:13 AM

The tracks, found by Martin Whyte of the University of Sheffield, cover nearly 20 feet (6 meters) of ground. They reveal a lumbering, jerky motion, Whyte explains in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.

eX7		2005-12-01 02:19:16 AM

triops.
Tri = 3
ops = vision, sight, survailence.

3 eyed freak!

SustainedHavoc		2005-12-01 02:39:24 AM

tobyclick
OK, it took me 2 looks to get it. It late, I no good.

krode		2005-12-01 03:17:29 AM

10 points to eX7, yay.

Nik Hatha		2005-12-01 03:20:46 AM

5 feet long and 3 feet wide...fark me! I'd run my arse off if I saw one lumbering out from the water, even if they are harmless.

skink		2005-12-01 03:26:16 AM

RTFA...Not a scorpion, a WATER scorpion. Closest living relatives are land scorps, land crabs, and the aforementioned horseshoe crabs.

I love horseshoe crabs...They always remind me that good design is timeless, intelligent or not.

BlueGargoyle		2005-12-01 04:02:41 AM

They were killed by Perseus of course...

Spidey88		2005-12-01 04:45:24 AM

Dookus Head:

better change that "n" to an "r" before someone more rude than myself calls you funny names.

Pyrtwist		2005-12-01 08:26:48 AM

5 feet long! STEP ON IT BEFORE IT GETS TO THE CHILDREN!

jlowejd		2005-12-01 09:16:47 AM

did-a-chok?

joelvis72		2005-12-01 09:26:01 AM

they roamed the earth, only to be defeated by richard denning in 1957...

TManPsycho		2005-12-01 10:20:43 AM

Ignignokt: "Just say 'here', and let's consider the word 'here' to be short for, 'here I am, rock you like a hurricane'."
Err: "You do as the Scorpions have done before you!"

North_Central_Positronics		2005-12-01 11:54:40 AM

jlowejd: did-a-chok?

dad-a-chik?

/lobstrocities

grizzlyjohnson		2005-12-01 01:06:14 PM

"The scorpion, a six-legged thing called Hibbertopterus, was about 5 feet (1.5 meters) long and 3 feet (1 meter) wide. It is long since extinct."

I should farking hope so! That's the exact dimensions of the desk I'm sitting at.

ska_is_dumb		2005-12-01 01:57:03 PM

reminds me of that 2 part episode of the new Outer Limits called "Sand Kings".

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