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- snarkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6
Scorpion: 999,999,999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall... - chicken101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Note to self: Never f&*% with a scorpion.
- pingviini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3in fifth grade, this boy brought in a scorpion in a jar at the begining of the year. Low and behold, when we got back from spring brake, I was board and looking at it and suddenly it moved! I told everybody around me but nobody believed me till I opened the jar and poked it with my pencil and it fought back.
Last time anyone called me crazy, at least in that class. => - CyberSmackdown, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Big Deal. Anna Nicole did that first.
- Sacrifusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Why is this news? Scorpions have been knows to live over 2 years with no nourishment. Must have been a very slow news day. I used to freeze scorpions and thaw them out and they would still be alive moths later. They are very enduring creatures.
- signal15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I caught a huge spider, put it in a sealed peanut butter jar and forgot about it outside for over a year. The thing was outside over the winter. When I found the jar later and shook it, the spider started crawling around. There wasn't any food in the jar, and it was airtight.
Those things are freaky. - MiseryQ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope somebody remembers this 20 years from now when Scorpions rules Salt Lakes ecosystem. (:
- kalisphoenix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Interesting. I've read some other stories with this same premise -- about frogs and salamanders (and even a pterodactyl) living inside otherwise-solid rock and escaping when the rock was broken. Since almost all of these stories came from the late 1800's or early part of the 20th century, I assumed they were all *****. Still pretty dubious about the pterodactyl, of course ;-)
- Flipino, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That must have been traumatic.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I CALL *****
This is s ploy to get his project discovered. - Chongo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0alien scorpions......just great..... damn Mormons.
- spectracide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0i'm more interested in the "tiny pneumatic jackhammers".
hand held jackhammers? sounds awesome. - Herolint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think the story would have been better if he would have sawed open the mold, saw the scorpion, freaked out, and then squished it with his shoe.
- mistshadow2k4, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Same here, kalisphoenix. Makes me wonder; what is it about amphibians and reptiles (and now, possibly arachnids) that allows them to put themselves in a quasi-suspended animation? Is that what happens? If so, what ramifications might that have for us trying to put ourselves in suspended animation via technology? Perhaps we could learn a thing or two from these critters if our scientists would accept the evidence long enough to study them.
- 404notfound, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diapause
Cool. - iamsjn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I totally believe this. I put a scorpion in a beer bottle and sealed it then stuck it under a bush out in the desert of New Mexico during a party. A year or so later, a buddy of mine remembered it. We ended up going back out there. We found the bottle and opened it up. Once we shook it, out popped one PISSED OFF scorpion!! I couldn't friggin believe it!!
SjN - pingviini, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0oops...
board EQU bored
better... - FourDoor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Dugg just on the nice Friday LOL comments posted here. =D
- drbroccoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Poor scorpion. Just imagine the horror of being trapped in a rock, and when released, captured and place in a jar! But seriously, that's cool.
- snoudude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Big Deal. Anna Nicole did that first."
I'm still laughing.... I think only the sting of a scopion will stop the laughter. - bossm4n, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When I was a kid, my best friend bought a new tent. When they brought it home and unpacked it, a live scorpion was rolled up in with the tent. Something I will never forget. Those are some seriously tough critters.
- PsycoMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow, that must of been one booooorrreeedd scorpion
- gODfall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don't ***** wit a scorpion.
- dextroz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Poor guy, that must have been one bored scorpion in there…
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+02 things:
1) So scorpions mediatate? How do they conserve energy?
2) If they can survive for such a long time, how about using insects for space exploration? - GrandMaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"He set the scorpion free in a field on the west side of Salt Lake City." Haha Salt Lake in January.. the thing is dead now.
- Haplo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Scorpions can indeed handle being without food for a long time. And if it's a desert kind of scorpion, it can handle being in a dry environment quite well. I guess the plaster had originally quite some moist, which slowly, slowly went away.
I like scorpions a lot, excellent pets (as in study object), and luckily they are living around (my) corner: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/2006/01/14/walk-el-limon-totalco.html - brockpetrie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"Scorpion: 999,999,999,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall..."
lol- best comment ever. - tristram, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0anyone who has seen MST3K S01 Ep13 "The Black Scorpion" should get some extra amusement out of this story...
"It's an ancient squeaking scorpion!" - sailor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Scorpian survives 15 months seal in fossil mold, only to be squashed by startled scientist....
thats what I would have done...nasty bugs! - mrfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0ha ha Jaxun. Good idea.
- mattb5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Is this like when the bass player on Spinal Tap was stuck in that pod? Was that based on a true story happening to Matthias Jabs? ;)
- jaxun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0@kaboom -
I propose then, that the Final Solution to the Scorpion Issue is to equip our troops with Shoes. Of course, we cannot condone the individual purchase of untested third-party Shoes, lest we put our troops at risk of voiding their Death-By-Sting-Or-Really-Really-Painful-Pinch survivor benefits. - dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was rockin' like a hurricane.
- canucksin2006, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Um.....this is on digg.com why?
Post this ***** on your personal blog!
No Digg!!!!!
No one cares about your comments!!! - Jeppy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Um.....this is on digg.com why?
Post this ***** on your personal blog!
No Digg!!!!! - iamserious, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Once I fell asleep and didn't even wake up for 22 hours.
Another time, I saw bigfoot. And for Valentines Day one year, I gave away cards with candy. - Zonkzor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0There is not much more to the article than what's already in the description. In the end though, he just lets it free. Woudn't it be interesting for some scientist to examine?
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http://CollegeCheapskate.com - 0Troy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+01. who cares
2. tech angle???
thanks for sharing sparky. no digg.
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