MWKillKenny84
Lurking from the Trauma Switch.
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- Vado Ligure
Zerg Overmind: They learn so fast...
*distrubing Abathur noises are disturbing*
So when will the Mite-made supercomputer will be made once more?
"Miss this is a wendy".
Vespa
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Zerg Overmind: They learn so fast...
*distrubing Abathur noises are disturbing*
So when will the Mite-made supercomputer will be made once more?
"Miss this is a wendy".
0TheFool
The Fool
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- Him/His
In truth, it's not about offering/searching for weird exotic insects/anthropods/what-have-you. Okay, maybe that too, BUT! It's about sharing with people interesting and weird shit Mother Nature created to give us nightmares.
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
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- The Internet
Mother Nature doesn't care if humans have nightmares. Mother Nature doesn't care if humans ever learn of potential nightmare fuel creatures. Mother Nature just enjoys making abominations.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
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- Between The Unknown & The Known
Will we, at some point, have Amy, pointing at Taylor...
"You Took Ma Jewb!" (*)
(Red Queen? Hornet Queen? Significantly different?)
* 'ma jewb' = 'my job', JIC
"You Took Ma Jewb!" (*)
(Red Queen? Hornet Queen? Significantly different?)
* 'ma jewb' = 'my job', JIC
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You know ... this has me considering what MPPi's take would be on "infinitely variable feline Taylor".
"Drafted" into the wards? Armsmaster with a laser pointer.
Undersiders robbing the bank? Taylor catnaping on the console as Clock and Aegis scream for help.
Finding Sophia as a Ward? Who trashed Sophia's ward room and shredded absolutely everything - definitely not Taycat.
Attacked by E88? Turns out Alabaster makes a wonderful scratching post.
Does PR inappropriate thing like turning Alabaster into a scratching post? Forgiven by Chambers on the first "Nya" in an interview. Catlor merch becomes hotest merch.
Forced to attend Arcadia with the other wards? Amy gives the best scratchies and Teachers are reluctant to order a Smilodon around...
Nah.... I don't think anyone would want to read that right? 😼
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
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- Between The Unknown & The Known
"Nyah!"
(The curious might want to look-up 'Crest Cat' and, for extra fun, 'Coerl',,, Telzey has a pet called 'Ticktock', that can go invisible, walk on walls and ceilings, and seems to be a telepathic smilodon... The 'Dirty Pair' have a pet/starship-mechanic that seems to be a (well-fed) seriously down-powered coerl... The original can wall through walls, as a lesser ability... Arguably a 'psychovore'...)
EDIT:
'Black Destroyer' (short story, 1939)
'Voyage of the Space Beagle' (novel, 1950)
I'm sure there are many other 'cute little kitties' that could be... recycled...
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- Location
- 3rd Rock from the Sun
If Vista hears this phrase, she might be surprised or...
rkyeun
Cabbitus Maximus
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- ◕ ‿‿ ◕
There are several extremely dangerous acids that I work with. Let's explain some of them.
Hydrochloric acid, purifies and untarnishes metal (by eating it). Burns skin and bleaches you away.
Nitric acid, etches metals, makes fertilizers. Rapid rots organic stuff, zombies you on contact.
Sulfuric acid, refines oil products and cleans wastewater. Softens and jellifies your tissues.
Hydrofluoric acid, etches glass and purifies refrigerants. Sets your bones on fire inside you.
That last part is not a joke. More than anything else, fluorine wants to be bound to CALCIUM. So it will soak straight through your skin, into your flesh, and while yes it will react a little with whatever it finds on its way, that's a slow reaction that takes time. What DOESN'T take time, is when it finds your bones. That reaction is vigorously exothermic, and your bones catch fire inside your body and cook while transforming into salt. The treatment for fluorine exposure is calcium cream rubbed onto your skin, to make the fluorine go for IT instead of your bones.
Oh, and we also have liquid argon. Just in case Boris needs to be reminded he is not eenveenzeebull.
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GreydonCreed
Man of Culture
- Location
- United States
These creatures are neither spiders nor scorpions, and can reach a body length of 3" and a total length including legs of 6" (!!!). 🤯
During WWI & WWII troops in northern Africa would stage and bet on fights btwn camel spiders and scorpions. 🤔 During the war in Iraq it was not uncommon for US soldiers to wake up with one of these in front of their face, and they'd panic and start shooting at it with a pistol. 😅
Not nearly as much fun as drowning it out with a loud buzz. For everyone in the area...
Oh hey, you left out the best part.
The chemical burns it leaves behind are invisible so you don't know if you've been tagged or not!
At that point, finding out the boiling point is room temp, so its also likely a gas you can breathe in, is almost anticlimactic.
- Location
- The general area. Possibly behind you.
On the upside, it combines with everything so strongly that most of the byproducts are fairly inert. So once the bubbling stops the area is largely safe
- Location
- Lost in the hive mind
You know, I have never seen Taylor exploit a Loctus swarm before, imagine a close to a tone of bugs per square meter for her entire range.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
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- Between The Unknown & The Known
While the big swarms have... possibilities they do need to breathe, eat, and some of them drink. So, you need either other bugs to feed them (I'm guessing, maybe, 3x the mass, minimum) or things like multiple trucks, or the odd silo, full of corn. It's the (sorta) USA - maybe a few trucks/freight train of cow/pig meat?
I've yet to see a bugging Taylor story where she's apparently (much) concerned about those logistics... Maybe it's considered a boring detail?
Ralyx
Seeking Balance
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- The Realm Between
- Pronouns
- He/Him
My first thought when I realized:
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
- Location
- Between The Unknown & The Known
I was looking at older anime... It is an Asian Giant Hornet. Maybe it is a 'magical companion', and is here to show Taylor her secret insect powers, so she can defeat the secret alien invaders??? This will, of course, come with free sentai martial artist pre-battle gesturing...
There is a _reason_ the Chalmette refinery had a bright yellow line painted a couple of yards outside of the HF unit. If you so much as put a _foot_ over that line, you had to go through decontamination to leave. Period. They were that paranoid... and were right about being so.
She can just collect from a wider area to build up the biggest swarms rather than rely on a rarely-available natural phenomenon.
Ace Dreamer
Verified Reality User
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- Between The Unknown & The Known
Yup. Locusts are basically swarming grasshoppers. Hungry ones, at that. Taylor likes and values her bugs, so she could gather her own horde of such, use them, probably feed them, then 'release them back into the wild'.
She could also ignore comments like, "But, it's not locust time!".
If that way inclined she could also 'CHIRP' in an entirely lady-like fashion.
("Dennis? You arranged this, didn't you?")
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Oh wait, I forgot the really freaky part.
It also kills your nerves, so you can't feel the invisible chemical burn happening either.
It's like somebody went "How can we make this worse?" and ran down a checklist.
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- The general area. Possibly behind you.
You'll like the conclusions the PRT scientists came to then.
I mean, they didn't, but they're not seeing the cool parts!
FaerieKnight79
Verified Pixie
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- The Internet
Yup. Locusts are basically swarming grasshoppers. Hungry ones, at that. Taylor likes and values her bugs, so she could gather her own horde of such, use them, probably feed them, then 'release them back into the wild'.
She could also ignore comments like, "But, it's not locust time!".
If that way inclined she could also 'CHIRP' in an entirely lady-like fashion.
("Dennis? You arranged this, didn't you?")
Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't locusts a mutation caused in grasshoppers due to there not being enough food? A mutation that is considered a plague for very very good reasons? As such, seeing a massive "blot out the sun" sized swarm of locusts would be a bad thing, even if they are under Taylor's control.
girador
There are only four circles in this picture
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- behind a screen
Nope, Locusts are just defined as any Grasshopper species that will form a swarm.