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Spectacular specimen: This bug's a big one - 8 feet long - and New Mexico scientists nabbed...
Albuquerque Tribune ^
| April 14, 2005
| Sue Vorenberg
Posted on 04/22/2005 12:50:39 PM PDT by demlosers
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To: mewzilla
You don't use Die-Bug-Die. You call in airstrikes and carpet patterns with napalm.
Another alternative would be to send U.N. peacekeepers, looking all cute and girly in their powder-blue helmets,
out with flamethrowers. We'll know they find these monsters when we hear the blue-helmeted ones' eeeks and shrieks.
And wouldn't it be another embarrassment if French peacekeepers surrendered to one of these things?
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posted on
04/22/2005 2:35:14 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: demlosers
Arthropleura died out at the end of the Pennsylvanian, probably because the amount of oxygen in the air was reduced from 30 percent during that time period to closer to the 21 percent we have today, Lucas said. needs to be said.......it's Bush's fault.
:-)
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posted on
04/22/2005 3:01:52 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: demlosers
Thank the good Lord it is extinct.
If they had found a LIVE one, the envirowhackos would be screaming to "reintroduce" it, and claiming protection for it as an "endangered" species.
83
posted on
04/22/2005 3:06:04 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: Tax-chick
It's a hugh, disgusting bug, however you date it!I would never date one, nor allow my sister too, either, even if a moose did bite her once.
84
posted on
04/22/2005 3:07:48 PM PDT
by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: ApplegateRanch
What a good brother you are!
85
posted on
04/22/2005 3:09:14 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Marriage is for breeders ... just like paragraphs!)
To: demlosers
We have a 5 foot insect today. It is called Barborus Boxerosus.
86
posted on
04/22/2005 3:11:00 PM PDT
by
doug from upland
(MOCKING DEMOCRATS 24/7 --- www.rightwingparodies.com)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; ValerieUSA; FairOpinion; Swordmaker
I won't be impressed until they find fossil evidence of a kilopede.
87
posted on
04/22/2005 11:02:13 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: blam; FairOpinion; Ernest_at_the_Beach; StayAt HomeMother; SunkenCiv; 24Karet; 3AngelaD; ...
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:03:46 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: MineralMan
"Quibbles! It's a hugh, disgusting bug, however you date it!"
Which Hugh is it?
89
posted on
04/22/2005 11:06:05 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
To: SunkenCiv
90
posted on
04/22/2005 11:10:22 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
To: demlosers
It would take a 55 gallon drum of raid to kill a bug that big.
91
posted on
04/22/2005 11:17:23 PM PDT
by
rdl6989
(If it drives the left into fits, its a good thing.)
To: Tax-chick
Quibbles! It's a hugh, disgusting bug, however you date it! DATE IT?! What kind of movie do you take one of those to?
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posted on
04/22/2005 11:20:59 PM PDT
by
Swordmaker
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To: Darksheare
Hmmmm.... would this have anything to do with YOU?
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posted on
04/23/2005 12:48:04 AM PDT
by
Darkchylde
(The Crazed Unknown Hermit)
To: MineralMan
I take it my usual bug spray wouldn't work on that.
To: BROKKANIC
How do they know it was a bug? Different kinds of animals make very distinctive tracks from each other. Apparently these tracks closely match the feet of an already known arthropod family, but these particular tracks are just really freakin' big compared to the more common specimens.
To: Swordmaker
96
posted on
04/23/2005 5:06:14 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Marriage is for breeders ... just like paragraphs!)
To: demlosers
This brings up an interesting issue. Arthropods don't have lungs (at least, not in the mammalian sense). They breath through their skin. How could a creature this size have taken in enough oxygen to survive? It could only happen, I suspect, if the air pressure was vastly denser than it is now. We must have lost a lot of air somewhere along the path of history.
I have on occasion seen fossils of flying insects that are orders of magnitude larger than their descendants of today. This also suggests that the air was once much more dense.
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posted on
04/23/2005 5:57:47 AM PDT
by
Renfield
(Philosophy chair at the University of Wallamalloo!!)
To: Red Badger
Looks like it would taste like a giant LOBSTER..........More like ammonia if the taste of the modern ones is any guide...
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posted on
04/23/2005 7:34:53 AM PDT
by
null and void
(You're in Bloody Hands with Allah State...)
To: gdani
And how exactly did Noah get that thing on the Ark?He didn't, they're extinct!
DUH!
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posted on
04/23/2005 7:36:25 AM PDT
by
null and void
(You're in Bloody Hands with Allah State...)
To: righttackle44
You don't use Die-Bug-Die. You call in airstrikes and carpet patterns with napalm.LOL! Bug hunt!!!
And wouldn't it be another embarrassment if French peacekeepers surrendered to one of these things?
For us, yes. For the French, non.
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