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You ever see a camel spider?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:45 am
by Testiculese
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=64244

That's scary! Roid should like this one. :)

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:58 am
by Dedman

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 9:59 am
by Krom
Ahhhh YIKES! Paint em a different color and they would be about right for the spiders in the movie lost in space.

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 10:15 am
by Tyranny
thats no spider! thats a friggin face hugger from Alien! :P My arachnophobia is telling me to nuke that thing its so big, lol!

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:01 pm
by T-Bone
Wow, for a minute there I thought this joker was really huge then I noticed there was a little forced perspective trickery going on. When you compare it to the partial hand that is holding it instead of the dude's leg in the background its not quite as scary. Still pretty big though.

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:14 pm
by Top Wop
I hate spiders.

That thing scares me. If I ever see one of those ill be sure to load it up with 2 shotgun shots before approaching! :oops:

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:22 pm
by JMEaT
It's the size of my jack russel terrier GET IT AWAAAAYYYy!1

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:30 pm
by Topher
God damn I hate spiders...

Remember that thread about the spider behind the clock? I didn't sleep very well that night...(really)

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:30 pm
by AceCombat
DAYUM!! thats huge.....i think its two spiders too. i see 2 sets of 8 legs

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:33 pm
by Topher
AceCombat wrote:DAYUM!! thats huge.....i think its two spiders too. i see 2 sets of 8 legs
Y-you mean they can combine and become even more powerful?? Kind of like dogs with bees in their mouths!? :(

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:41 pm
by Darkside Heartless
:) I love spiders, I want one like that.

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:43 pm
by T-Bone
But... oh, never mind...

Yeah, it's huge good grief it might gnaw that guys leg in to!

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:03 pm
by Admiral Thrawn
Topher wrote:
AceCombat wrote:DAYUM!! thats huge.....i think its two spiders too. i see 2 sets of 8 legs
Y-you mean they can combine and become even more powerful?? Kind of like dogs with bees in their mouths!? :(
Yes, this particular species is known as VoltronArachnida

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:36 pm
by Topher
Admiral Thrawn wrote:
Topher wrote:
AceCombat wrote:DAYUM!! thats huge.....i think its two spiders too. i see 2 sets of 8 legs
Y-you mean they can combine and become even more powerful?? Kind of like dogs with bees in their mouths!? :(
Yes, this particular species is known as VoltronArachnida
So you're saying they chop you in half with a sword using the same predictable and repeated animations?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 2:38 pm
by Admiral Thrawn
Don't knock the Voltron hippie!

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:44 pm
by woodchip
So they are called camel spiders because they like...eat camels?

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 5:49 pm
by bash
I still think a bear holding a shark is scarier. And if the bear had bees in its mouth, I would buy tickets to see it.

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:02 pm
by Nexus_One
★■◆● THAT!!!! I ★■◆●ing hate spiders, makes my skin crawl just thinking about it...

Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 11:53 pm
by Mobius
"This weird looking arachnid is not in fact a scorpion or spider at all but belongs to its own order- solifugid."

So - not a spider.

Spiders are great. Why the hell would you hate them? They get rid of disease-spreading insects! They are beautiful, and fragile and not-very-dangerous at all, unless you get unlucky.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:01 am
by roid
yes sir, those are camel spiders. they look kinda like miniature flattened grenades with legs and a jaw.

they are viscous huge things, have HUGE jaws. and will chase you and even JUMP (quite high) at you, live in the arabian deserts. but yeah, have no poison, but it doesn't stop them chasing and chewing on you.

somethingawful.com used to think they were the coolest things on earth a few years ago :), that's how i know about them :P

interesting though, i never knew they wern't spiders.
i think our friend "laser spider" would kick it's ass though.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 1:33 am
by Canuck
Looks like one was trying to chow down on the other.
Imagine waking up with these things in your sleeping bag... shudder.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 5:58 am
by Sage
Usually I shoot spiders wit my bb gun, but I dunno if it could kill that thing... :oops:

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:34 am
by JMEaT
Topher wrote:God damn I hate spiders...

Remember that thread about the spider behind the clock? I didn't sleep very well that night...(really)
What?

Image

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 9:54 am
by Topher
shiver...

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 12:39 pm
by Dedman
That was funny. Anyone have the real pic?

I like spiders. They go really good with some pico de gallo on the side.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 2:32 pm
by Topher
Dedman wrote:That was funny. Anyone have the real pic?

I like spiders. They go really good with some pico de gallo on the side.

Uh huh, funny thing how all spiders are poisonous to eat...

Edit: Here's the pics I'm talking about:
http://www.rochedalss.eq.edu.au/spiderphotos03.htm
Search for "clock".

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:04 pm
by AceCombat
Sage wrote:Usually I shoot spiders wit my bb gun, but I dunno if it could kill that thing... :oops:

i bet my high power BB Gun could want to borrow it :wink:

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 3:43 pm
by Liquid Fire
Lets see...as a kid, I kept wild turantulas in cages as pets (inexplicably, the other bugs I put in there kept dying...). The best place to find them was in my pool. Also, at night my dad and I would go hunting for scorpions with a blacklight and a hammer. Then in the day, we would go hunting for black widows under the old motor home with double cans 'o' raid.

Ah, those were the days :) and no, spiders don't bother me.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 4:16 pm
by AceCombat
Liquid Fire wrote: Also, at night my dad and I would go hunting for scorpions with a blacklight and a hammer.


why with Black lights???

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 7:58 pm
by KaTaNa
Yes, I remember seeing these spiders when I was deployed to Desert Storm in '91. Came back one night and found one on my bunk. Took about six smacks with a board before it stopped twitching. Saw one running around outside one night too. The SOBs are FAST.... I have picture of the one I killed, nasty looking beast...about the size of my hand.

Posted: Thu Apr 08, 2004 8:41 pm
by T-Bone
AceCombat wrote:why with Black lights???
Scorpions fluoresce under black lights.

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:35 am
by Battlebot
guess they found the weapons of mass destruction....

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 5:18 pm
by Grendel
More info on that picture..

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:01 pm
by TigerRaptor
Did I just count ten legs on that spider?

Posted: Fri Apr 09, 2004 11:56 pm
by roid
kinda. the 2 front ones are used for catching prey. they are more like ARMS, clasified as a part of the mouth really.

and they're not spiders ;) (but are related, like scorpions, and are arachnids)