Big fudging spiders

[tharpdevenport]

Watching the Discovery Channel with cGI dinos and exstinct animals.

They got a spider the size "of a human" that if were alive today, would be "hunting house cats".

It stabs its vicitims with long fangs.


Creeped out yet?

Picture time!

 

[kitkat]

Holy shit!! That's terrifying!

 

[Sephiroth]

did it taste like chicken?

 

[Aragorn]

When the giant spiders reappear on earth, they'll remember that I was nice to them and let them outside instead of squishing them and I'll rule my own continent. Of course, this would also mean they weren't wondering what happened to the spiders I didn't set free.

 

[Borjis]

Looks just like that spider from Return of the King.

 

[M'Sharak]

Watching the Discovery Channel with cGI dinos and exstinct animals.

They got a spider the size "of a human" that if were alive today, would be "hunting house cats".

It stabs its vicitims with long fangs.


Creeped out yet?

Picture time!

Hmmm...

Talking about the same program, from here:

In the BBC documentary Walking with Monsters (2005), a Carboniferous era species of Mesothelae was shown as being as large as a human head and shown hunting reptiles the size of today's cats. In the series, it is depicted as living like tarantulas in burrows and either lying in wait for its prey or chasing it through the jungle.


However, no spider that large has ever been found, but when the series began production the sea scorpion Megarachne was mistakenly believed to been a spider. The correct classification was not made until Walking With Monsters was well into production, and the giant spider was left in and called "Mesothelae" instead of Megarachne. Megarachne servinei had up until this time been the biggest known spider.

They found out it was wrong, but they'd already shot that part of the program, so they left it in. Three years ago.

Edit:

And "fudging"? Seriously?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I saw it last night, too. It actually said the spider was the size of a human head, which is still not something I'd want to find in the basement.

But it turns out that it was actually a sea scorpion, not a spider.

In the BBC documentary Walking with Monsters (2005), a Carboniferous era species of Mesothelae was shown as being as large as a human head and shown hunting reptiles the size of today's cats. In the series, it is depicted as living like tarantulas in burrows and either lying in wait for its prey or chasing it through the jungle.

However, no spider that large has ever been found, but when the series began production the sea scorpion Megarachne was mistakenly believed to been a spider. The correct classification was not made until Walking With Monsters was well into production, and the giant spider was left in and called "Mesothelae" instead of Megarachne. Megarachne servinei had up until this time been the biggest known spider.

What the article doesn't mention is that even Megarachne Servinei turned out to be a sea scorpion, too.

Edit: Heh. M'Sharak beat me to it.

 

[RevdKathy]

Discovery channel explores life on Metebelis lll

 

[tharpdevenport]

They should have put a disclaimer in re-runs like the one I saw, that no such spider existed.


Still, kind of disappointed there were no human head sized spiders with fangs.


"fudging" ... well, if I have put "fucking" in the head line, it would have been edited by a MOD.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Well, you never know. There are a lot of undiscovered fossils out there.

 

[Worf412]

"fudging" ... well, if I have put "fucking" in the head line, it would have been edited by a MOD.

You could always find a way to express yourself without resorting to dull, dumbed down and overused qualifiers?

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I'd just assumed he had recently watched A Christmas Story.

It's September, so stores will start putting up the decorations any second.

 

[Neeka Keet]

Watching the Discovery Channel with cGI dinos and exstinct animals.

They got a spider the size "of a human" that if were alive today, would be "hunting house cats".

It stabs its vicitims with long fangs.


Creeped out yet?

Picture time!

*cringes* *dies*

I hate spiders with a passion that knows no bounds. Ewwww!

 

[Sephiroth]

i'll protect you Neeka (grabs shotgun)

 

[Chris3123]

Keving Smith will have something to say about this thread...

 

[M'Sharak]

I'd just assumed he had recently watched A Christmas Story.

It's September, so stores will start putting up the decorations any second.

I have never seen A Christmas Story. References and allusions to it tend to escape me, a lot of the time.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I'd just assumed he had recently watched A Christmas Story.

It's September, so stores will start putting up the decorations any second.

I have never seen A Christmas Story. References and allusions to it tend to escape me, a lot of the time.

It's a classic! You got to watch it. Wait for Christmas. On a rare occassion on some boards, I use a quote for it as my signature:

"Randy lie there like a slug; it was his only defense."