1,000+ New Species Discovered!
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Originally Posted by sickstrings84
That's cool, I don't think I ever heard of that...as far as the spider goes...I don't think I would want to be anywhere near it. I saw enough gigantic spiders in Iraq to last me a lifetime...stupid Camel Spiders...ugh.
Yea those things are monsters! Did you ever see the picture of what really looks like a huge one, but it's really two (1 devouring the other), with a soldier holding it up? I was watching a show quite a while ago, I think on the history channel, don't remember which one though, and some 19th century explorer visited the amazon I think it was, and in his diary he stated that one breed of spider walked across the road, almost as big as his jeep. Imagine seeing that thing walking across your home.
1,000+ New Species Discovered!
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Originally Posted by bobthenuker
Yea those things are monsters! Did you ever see the picture of what really looks like a huge one, but it's really two (1 devouring the other), with a soldier holding it up? I was watching a show quite a while ago, I think on the history channel, don't remember which one though, and some 19th century explorer visited the amazon I think it was, and in his diary he stated that one breed of spider walked across the road, almost as big as his jeep. Imagine seeing that thing walking across your home.
Yeah...they can get rather large...most of the ones I saw in Iraq were prolly like 4", not too huge, but way too big for an arachnaphobe such as myself to wanna ever deal with. I think I've seen that picture that you're talking about, those damn things will eat anything they can get their fangs on, esp. each other. The biggest one I saw was dead and it was about 7-8" legspan, creeped me out for days, I was constantly checking all my gear for spiders for the whole 13 months I was over there.
A spider the size of a Jeep?!? I think that would be the point that I would turn around and say fuck the Amazon, I'm going home...lol.
1,000+ New Species Discovered!
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Originally Posted by sickstrings84
Yeah...they can get rather large...most of the ones I saw in Iraq were prolly like 4", not too huge, but way too big for an arachnaphobe such as myself to wanna ever deal with. I think I've seen that picture that you're talking about, those damn things will eat anything they can get their fangs on, esp. each other. The biggest one I saw was dead and it was about 7-8" legspan, creeped me out for days, I was constantly checking all my gear for spiders for the whole 13 months I was over there.
A spider the size of a Jeep?!? I think that would be the point that I would turn around and say fuck the Amazon, I'm going home...lol.
Definitely, I hate spiders too. I agree with Johnny though, the ocean is where it's at man...we should spend less time exploring space and more time the ocean. A lot of deep canyons underwater, hiding krakens, trunkos, and whatnot. Look at this picture...http://beatledude.files.wordpress.co.../08/kraken.jpg that is creepy shit man.
1,000+ New Species Discovered!
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Originally Posted by sickstrings84
Wow...3% huh? I guess were moving right along in that field huh??? or not. lol.
well as of right now we can only go so far down. pressure and darkness are 2 huge contributors as to why we are at a halt on farther exploration under the sea.
spiders creep me out, although it would be cool just to see one that big.:stoned:
