Which khukuri for giant scorpions?

Howard Wallace

Howard Wallace

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You guys can stop worrying about zombies for a while. I just saw this item.

The first one of you that bags one let me know. I have this great recipie for scorpion.

from http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L30435352.htm

Tracks of extinct, giant scorpion found in Scotland
30 Nov 2005 18:46:38 GMT

Source: Reuters
LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Tracks made 330 million years ago by a six-legged water scorpion bigger than a human have been found in Scotland.

Martin Whyte, the geologist at the University of Sheffield in northern England who discovered the tracks, said on Wednesday they were left by a scorpion that measured 1.6 metres (5 ft 3 inches) in length and one metre across.

"To my knowledge, this is ... the largest terrestrial trackway of a walking arthropod to be found so far," he said in a report in the journal Nature.

Arthropods include insects, spiders, crabs, shrimps and lobsters. They have a body divided into distinct parts, an outside skeleton and jointed legs.

Whyte said the now extinct giant scorpion had at least three pairs of appendages of different lengths. Its lumbering movement indicated the creature could have survived out of water.

"The slow, stilted progression, together with the dragging of the posterior, indicates that the animal was buoyant and that it was probably moving out of water," Whyte added.
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We're going to need penetration because of the exoskeleton. We can't be too slow because of the pincers and barbed tail.



munk
 
Just pit the zombie beavers against them. Once they battle it out, we can mop up the survivors (probably the Great Water Scorpions, but now sans limbs and mobility).

They'll be easy targets for hot-dog armed SEELS.
 
"The slow, stilted progression, together with the dragging of the posterior,"

IIRC married one like that once....

Rose. (With stag handle & extraneous tine, dipped in garlic)
 
Howard, out of curiosity, where'd you come up with that link? Oh, and probably a big Gelbu special.
 
The author of the article in post 1 has jumped to an unsupported conclusion. All animals are designed to be a certain size, and you cannot significantly change the scale without redesigning the mechanism. You can have giant scorpions, but they would bahaive or look very differently from their smaller cousins.

Here is a copy of Haldane excellent essay on the subject of scale

Link: On Being the Right Size, J. B. S. Haldane

http://entomology.unl.edu/lgh/ent108/on_being_the_right_size.htm

n2s

p.s. I would go with an 18" AK khukuri. This thing would be slow on land and I am going for penetration.
 
the bbc over here actually had a series of docu-dramas here, one of which featured the giant sea scorpion. the narrator was swimming with them in his chain mail diver's suit & they were trying to eat him. kinda slow, one of the other predators would grab & eat them while the narrator hid in a crevace in the sea floor. he did get nipped on the leg by one when he waded into the sea while spouting his narration & had to be assisted ashore. fortuneatley he was a time traveller going back in time to show the monsters of the past in the 10 most dangerous times for sea creatures. the age of the sea scorpions was fairly low down the list. lotsa bigger,meaner, and toothier stuff at earlier/later ages. mebbe one of the US networks will buy & show it over there. being a touchy-feely type narrator, he never carried a kukhri tho, a major weakness in the story line imho.
 
Which khukuri? Why a Janawar Katne of course.:thumbup: ;) :D
In this case I would prefer a very long thin and light khukuri.
 
A UBE of course...

Ugly Bug Exterminator.
 
25" Gelbu Special. I ain't gettin' near that thing.

I hate regular sized scorpions enough. And now, I have to worry about brown recluses, too. I always thought they were bigger than that.

Have both under my (wrecked) house. Maybe they'll eat each other, and leave me out of it.


Ad Astra
 
A bilton...duct taped to the end of a 12ga loaded with slugs.

I'm gonna have to go with my 20 or 25" Kobra. If it's slow, then I'm thinking the Sher movie model. Heavy, but has a really good point on it. I bet a sea scorpion boiled with melted butter wouldn't be bad eating.

Jake
 
An arthropod of that size does sound delisciouos. I'd like a picnic talbe covered with the claws boiled in some hot cajun seasoning (liquid AND the little baggies). I want a few potatoes and some corn boiled in there too. And BEER. You gotta have beer to keep your face from burning and stinging. I bet you could break those legs and pull out chunks of meat the size of turkey legs. MMMMMMMMMM. Now das a cajun feass yea!!!! 'D be wort a trip to Angland for dat kinda fare.

Although they aint famous for their fare are they?

I'd use a shotgun for sure sha.

Andy
 
Ya ever read the Gunslinger (Dark Tower) by Steven King? There's this seen where he's attacked by these crab monsters, gave me the shivers. I saw a giant King Crab at the Boston Aqurium years ago, it gave me the creeps, even though the next aquarium over had a big shark in it. (Guess I'm used to sharks, being here, and all.)
 
Man you guys got me goin now. How you gonna find a pot big enough to boil up a mess o dose giant scorpio-crabs?
 
Shann said:
I saw a giant King Crab at the Boston Aqurium years ago, it gave me the creeps, even though the next aquarium over had a big shark in it. (Guess I'm used to sharks, being here, and all.)
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You would have loved the job I had in Alaska. When a crab boat would come in with a load of thousands of king crabs in the hold, they would pump the seawater out of the hold and in a couple of us would go. They would lower in a big net called a brailer, and we would pitch the monsters into the net. They do indeed move slowly out of water, for the "physics of scale" reasons previously noted.

After the first load we would have a hole dug in the living mass, and when they pulled the brailer out we could sit down on the crabs with our legs in the hole.

King crabs have one big pincer, and one small one. If you put a broomstick in the big pincer and let it clamp down you can hear the wood splintering. Just because they're out of water does not mean they're less strong.

Anyway, one day when we were sitting down and talking, waiting for the next brailer to come into the hold, one of those slow-moving pincers got ahold of a sensitive piece of anatomy on my co-worker. I still remember his little dance with a 5 ft, 20 lb crab attached.

I used to run the cookers too. Nothing beats minutes fresh king crab, right out of the cooker. Few people have tasted this, as most of the commercial stuff is frozen for transport.
 
Mee too Howard. I'd give $100 to see that guy jumping around with a crab hanging from him. LOL!:D :D :D
 
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