Mackheath said:Shishkebab + Entomologist + Pyromaniac and go Oblivion on thier asses. Makes short work of them!MiracleOfSound said:Giant Radscorpions - the most terrifying creature in a game.
I've had nightmares about them...
...and now I find out they're REAL.
Better crack out the Gauss Rifle and pray the Stranger comes...
I actually have to switch to third person view any time I see one, that's how much they creep me out. Mirelurk Hunters are awful too.
REALLY!?!Skuvnar said:And holy fuck! I'm from the langtoon!lewism247 said:Scottish high five!cousinletsgobowling said:im not ffrom fife but im close.clackmannenshire!lewism247 said:HOLY CRAP!Logan Westbrook said:Fossilized Radscorpian Tracks Found in Scotland
The fossilized tracks of a giant prehistoric scorpion have been discovered in the UK.
Scientists have found the fossilized tracks of a giant scorpion-like creature called Hibbertopterus in the sandstone of Fife, Scotland. The tracks were discovered by Dr Martin Whyte from the University of Sheffield while he was out walking.
If you were to meet the Hibbertopterus, you'd probably run the other way as quickly as you could, as it was over six feet long and more than three feet wide, basically about the same size of a giant radscorpian in the Fallout games.
"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly," said Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife. "But molding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."
This discovery is especially exciting to scientists as it was previously thought that Hibbertopterus spent most of its time in water, rather than walking around for prolonged periods.
Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7613128/Gigantic-scorpion-fossil-found-in-Fife.html]
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I'm from Fife
and that's pretty cool, I remember it being on a documentary thing a while ago about the evolution of humans.
i'm from the lang toon (Only Scots will know where that is)
In fact, it's Thursday night tomorrow!
Which of course means Spoons then Kitties!
And really, only people from said town will know what I'm on about.
Oh I suppose granted, but nonetheless it's pretty wtf knowing that somewhere in your ancestry is that ************.Stone Wera said:
lewism247 said:HOLY CRAP!Logan Westbrook said:Fossilized Radscorpian Tracks Found in Scotland
The fossilized tracks of a giant prehistoric scorpion have been discovered in the UK.
Scientists have found the fossilized tracks of a giant scorpion-like creature called Hibbertopterus in the sandstone of Fife, Scotland. The tracks were discovered by Dr Martin Whyte from the University of Sheffield while he was out walking.
If you were to meet the Hibbertopterus, you'd probably run the other way as quickly as you could, as it was over six feet long and more than three feet wide, basically about the same size of a giant radscorpian in the Fallout games.
"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly," said Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife. "But molding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."
This discovery is especially exciting to scientists as it was previously thought that Hibbertopterus spent most of its time in water, rather than walking around for prolonged periods.
Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7613128/Gigantic-scorpion-fossil-found-in-Fife.html]
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I'm from Fife
and that's pretty cool, I remember it being on a documentary thing a while ago about the evolution of humans.
Skuvnar said:lewism247 said:Skuvnar said:lewism247 said:That's what they want you to thinkcousinletsgobowling said:lewism247 said:HOLY CRAP!Logan Westbrook said:Fossilized Radscorpian Tracks Found in Scotland
The fossilized tracks of a giant prehistoric scorpion have been discovered in the UK.
Scientists have found the fossilized tracks of a giant scorpion-like creature called Hibbertopterus in the sandstone of Fife, Scotland. The tracks were discovered by Dr Martin Whyte from the University of Sheffield while he was out walking.
If you were to meet the Hibbertopterus, you'd probably run the other way as quickly as you could, as it was over six feet long and more than three feet wide, basically about the same size of a giant radscorpian in the Fallout games.
"Removing it and housing it in a museum would be prohibitively costly," said Richard Batchelor from Geoheritage Fife. "But molding it in silicone rubber and making copies for educational and research purposes means that we can still see and research this huge creature's tracks in years to come."
This discovery is especially exciting to scientists as it was previously thought that Hibbertopterus spent most of its time in water, rather than walking around for prolonged periods.
Source: Telegraph [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7613128/Gigantic-scorpion-fossil-found-in-Fife.html]
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I'm from Fife
and that's pretty cool, I remember it being on a documentary thing a while ago about the evolution of humans.
I'm just outside St Andrews,so atm I keeping vigilant for big scary scorpions ....
nope no red ticks on my compass
Actually, the limit is the amount of oxygen in the air. See, Exoskeletal creatures breath via spiracles, some just acting as direct blood-air respiratory exchange processes, others (Such as in Scorpions, Spiders and other Arachnids) through somewhat more advanced "Book Lungs", which are a variant of the gill method of breathing. This means that there's no 'breathing', or muscular contractions resulting in the inhalation and expulsion of air. This (And various other things) mean that these are not as efficient as "proper" mammalian lung systems, and act as an effective limit on the size of the animal.RebellionXXI said:
