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Walking fungus.
Nothing really made me squick but that's probably just me. Without a central nervous system though, it doesn't make sense how this can walk. "It's an SCP!" doesn't seem to me like a good justification for it, personally.
(account deleted)Also, just a note, "electromagnetic fields emitted by animate creatures" sounds rather pretentious. There are two quantum fields, electric and magnetic, both of which are like gravity, and light is a vibration in both of those. Electromagnetic fields are not emitted by living creatures, in any way, as far as I know.
As a public service, we also have a statue that kills you if you don't look at it, a lizard that regenerates from acid with no loss of mass, and a butler summoned by a bell that will do anything you want. Also, water is wet, and fire is hot.
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And look up a damn electric eel.
Also, stop writing SCP-058 text.
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EDIT: Alright, I did the research. The eel comment is irrelevant, because eels project an electric field, and that's what is unique about them.
But I'm wrong, I'll admit it.
I call bullshit. Look at the previously mentioned link - Granted ,the fields are very small, but if there were none, they wouldn't be able to measure them.
All you need to generate an EM field is a moving charge. Brain's got plenty of those.
Also, we have pink flamingos that kill you, gnomes that make a plastic ecosystem, and a porta potty.
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
What I'm saying though, is that saying "it detects electromagnetic fields emitted by animate objects" is nonsense, because animate objects do not neccesarily emit electromagnetic fields, whatever that means.
I down-rated because it doesn't seem interesting to me, not necessarily because of the lack of a CNS. I just don't really get it. It's a species of shape-shifting fungal animals.
Hmm, I like how in this one, an MTF doesn't fail and get slaughtered.
That said, I suspect asexual mitosis is redundant as mitosis isn't sexual by definition - it's a cell splitting in two identical ones. Sexual reproduction cells are formed by meiosis - a cell duplicating its genetic material, then splitting in four.
I'm neutral on it, honestly. My problem is why would it attack SUVs, which have alternators, coils and spark plugs, as well as humans inside of them. The tags don't make sense, either. How can it be "hostile" and "safe"? It needs active measures to keep it contained.
Also, and this is close to article pimping, it feels like my Walking Sticks, although my SCP is more convergent evolution than fungal Play-Doh. So, a meh from me. No up or down vote, just my opinion.
a species of mobile fungus resembling F. ellipsoidea.
You can't abbreviate the genus until you've spelled it out at least once.
This. I wish people would actually read Technical Words. It's all in there…
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I feel your pain.
Hell, we should play a Foundation drinking game some day. Biology fail, you take a shot. Engineering fail, I take one. I wonder how far into the archive we'd make it.
Hah! I'm a lightweight. No doubt I'd be half-dead before we broke 300.
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Not a particularly strong drinker either…
Hmm, though there's one factor you forgot.. with progressing shots, the ability to recognise the fail goes down. By 200's we'd probably be OK with standard trees in transparent titanium enclosures.
I don't know — I think the ability to recognize subtle fail would go down, but not the big stupidities. By the 200's, I'd be missing the mistakes on floral morphology, but probably actually shouting at standard trees…
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Dr. Elliot shouting at a standard tree.Someone needs to sketch this. Of course, a standard tree has ISO-9001 stamped , circular leaves.
…welp. I guess I know what I'm drawing tonight.
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