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"Real science opens windows for us to look through. We're right at the footsteps of the most interesting scientists around."
- Larry Niven
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| Iron Scorpion | ||
| An autonomous war machine, in the shape and form of a scorpion. |
| He looked in the same direction and saw something down there, perambulating across the green. It appeared big, its metal back segmented. As they flew above it, it raised its front end off the ground and waved its antennae at them, then raised one armoured claw as if to snip them out of the sky. A giant iron scorpion. “What’s that?” he asked, supposing it some exotically shaped excavating machine controlled by the AI running the Fossil Gene Project. With a frown his mother replied, “War drone,” then abruptly used grav-braking to halt the gravcar in mid-air above the drone. |
| Technovelgy from Shadow of the Scorpion,
by Neal Asher. Published by Simon and Schuster in 2008 Additional resources -
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Science fiction movie fans may recall Scorponok from Transformers (2007):
(Scorponok from 'Transformers' (2007))
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