Sentences with phrase «as centipede»

In addition to the impressive lineup of Activision titles, the Atari Flashback 8 Gold Activision Edition includes a trove of Atari's first - party favorites such as Centipede ™, Millipede ™, Yars» Revenge, Tempest and more.

In everyday speech it is however not uncommon to refer to a centipede sting as a centipede bite and so on.

At least as awe - inspiring and chill - inducing as the centipede is the less commonly offered camel spider — more properly called the solfugid.

This desert and scrub denizen looks for all the world as dangerous and intimidating as the centipede or solfugid, but it's not.

A galaxy without stars seems as nonsensical as a centipede without legs, but last February astronomer Robert Minchin, now at Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, reported the first - ever sighting of just such an object.

These toxins spanned the breadth of the animal kingdom, including ancient venomous groups such as centipedes, scorpions, spiders, coleoids (octopus, cuttlefish and squids) and cnidarians (jellyfish, sea anemones and hydras).

Figure 4: Patterns of Hox gene expression have diverged between arthropods and their relatives such as centipedes (top left and top right) and onychophorans (center and bottom left and right).

Not exact matches

Why not have the Brooklyn Centipedes in the East with Ed Kranepool at quarterback and in the West have the Hollywood Hi - Jackers, with James Bond as fullback?

This wisdom is apparent even to children, and we find it immortalized in poems such as «The Puzzled Centipede»:

In recent years our incredibly varied geology has provided the oldest known vascular land plants, evidence of the oldest herbivores, as well as the earliest examples of terrestrial footprints («Did centipedes take the first steps on terra firma?»

Taken together, these regulars form a neat ecosystem, with spiders and centipedes as apex predators, hunting smaller fry such as carpet beetles and other spiders.

Although venom is common in arthropods such as spiders, scorpions, centipedes and wasps, it has never before been seen in any of the 70,000 known crustaceans, a subgroup of arthropods that includes shrimp and crabs.

As in the millipedes (which, unlike centipedes, are not venomous), they are highly segmented (15 to 173 segments), but with only one pair of walking legs per segment.

In a recent paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, King detailed how, in mouse models, a peptide from the venom of the Chinese red - headed centipede acted as a more potent painkiller than morphine — without side effects.

Unlike the peptides derived from spider or centipede venoms, saxitoxin is a small molecule, which means any medication based on it can be taken as a pill.

Their robotic centipede — built through microfabrication techniques similar to those used for making computer chips — is just over an inch long and about a third as wide, weighing less than two - hundredths of an ounce.

The centipede's greatest role might be as a miniature workhorse, since it can carry seven times its body weight.

Comparisons of how genes are used in different animals, such as diverse insects, centipedes, and crustacea, have revealed the primacy of regulatory changes in the generation of morphological diversity.

Besides primitive plants, the Rhynie Chert has yielded of algal, fungi, and prokaryotic bacteria fossils as well as a diversity of early terrestrial arthropods such as Myriapods (millipedes and centipedes), Collembola, and Arachnids such as Opiliones (harvestmen), pseudoscorpions and the extinct, spider - like trigonotarbids.

Decidedly negative on the film is The Playlist's Jessica Kiang, who describes the structure as a «kind of Human Centipede ass - to - mouth concertina of gruesome misogyny and utter tedium.»

As always, the quality of those films varied widely, taking in films that were among the year's best (including drama 45 Years, 2015's # 2 overall film) and among the year's worst The Human Centipede III, which scored lower than all but one film last year).

Apparently, there have been Decepticons hiding on the moon, something that was never established earlier, but obvious plotholes and weak storytelling are both glossed over as the last hour turns into a full - on Decepticon invasion as they reduce Chicago to rubble, led by a single - eyed Decepticon named Shockwave that controls a giant robotic centipede.

Dinklage, as the grown - up Eddie, is released from prison to join the others in real - life combat with Pac - Man, Centipede and Donkey Kong in locations around the world.

It's hard to believe that anyone would give these guys even a little bit of money to waste on something so insufferable, let alone that people could actually find it funny, because with the exception of a few smirk - worthy gags thanks to guest stars like John C. Reilly and Will Ferrell, «Billion Dollar Movie» is on par with «The Human Centipede» as one of the biggest cinematic travesties of the last decade.

Pixels (Blu - ray + Ultraviolet) Details: 2015, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Rated: PG - 13, suggestive comments, language The lowdown: A science fiction comedy about aliens who misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war and retaliate by attacking our planet with games such as Pac - Man, Donkey Kong, Centipede, Space Invaders and Galaga.

As a kid of the»80s who spent a ton of quarters at arcades and corner stores, I really loved how the movie captured the spirit of the games like Centipede, Pac - Man, and Donkey Kong.

The set includes the director's cuts of the movies as well as the color version of «Human Centipede 2.»

Arcade aficionados will remember Centipede and Millipede as a pair of track - ball - equipped shooters in which players had to eliminate encroaching arthropods through a field of mushrooms while avoiding spiders and other creepy crawlies.

Beginning at 2 a.m. PST on Wednesday, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download Big Huge Games» strategy game Catan, as well as a combo pack including Atari's arcade shooters Centipede and Millipede.

In years past the festival has been home to world premieres of THERE WILL BE BLOOD, APOCALYPTO, ZOMBIELAND, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 2 and RED while the guest roster has included such talent as Mel Gibson, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Ryan Reynolds, Karl Urban, Josh Hartnett, The RZA, Dolph Lundgren, Jemaine Clement, Paul Rudd, Bill Pullman, Paul Thomas Anderson, Kevin Smith, Jon Favreau, George Romero, Darren Aronofsky and Mike Judge.

Titled «The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence),» this straight to VOD is, as if you had any doubt, a stomach - churning mess, both self - reflexive comment on the «HC» phenom and a failed attempt at parodying same.

The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence): What started out as a promising horror series concludes with an entry that's devoid of real scares and contains one of the most annoying performances to come around in ages.

There are sight gags around glass - fronted corporate boxes and Adidas Predator - style boots made from giant centipedes, as well as an on - point Alan Hansen impression from Rob Brydon.

Pixels Rated PG - 13 for some language and suggestive comments Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D Adam Sandler is back at his dumb - movie best as a former child video game champion who must save the planet when aliens attack the Earth in the form of 80's video games like Galaga, Centipede and Pac - Man.

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During the unit on insects, the children might watch «The Giant Bug Invasion» episode of the PBS Kids show Kratts» Creatures to learn about «exotic bugs such as scorpions, centipedes, tarantulas, and many others.»

Racing along a twisty back - country road, the stiff suspension kept all wheels pushed hard down on the pavement, like a centipede as it went over hillocks at speed.

We've been actively involved in caring for and breeding Australian Tarantulas since the mid eighties in North Queensland and we have an extensive collection of Australian specimens of the Theraphosidae family as well as scorpions and centipedes.

This includes games from consoles like the GameBoy, NES, Atari 2600, and Commodore 64, as well as classic arcade games like Pac Man, Centipede, and Space Invaders.

Gamers everywhere now have a way to experience classic games such as Defender, Frogger, Tron, and Centipede...

I'm not into most retro Arcade games on the Xbox 360, but after all the quarter I put into Centipede 400 points is not really that much to play it as often as I want.

As one would expect most of the achievements are for reaching certain point totals, but there are a couple unique ones thrown in like «Destroy all mushrooms on the screen Centipede — Default difficulty.»

You can't put baskets on shopkeeper's heads anymore, but you can still explore and make your own adventure, as long as you ignore the human centipede in the town market.

What's not to like about a cake level that is constantly morphing around the player as it is gobbled by train - sized centipede - like bugs?

There has always been a struggle for legitimacy in the games industry, as proponents of the medium try to convince the world that it's not only about twelve year olds killing prostitutes, when that's just an aspect of the industry like The Human Centipede or Transformers are aspects of the movie biz.

They will end up trailing you like a giant centipede, as you can see in the above picture.

These are examples of some games, but others such as Pac - Man and Centipede will also be included.

He lists the work of Beauford Delaney, Edward Bannister, and Gerhard Richter along with Ellsworth Kelly's yellow square as important touchstones, as well as: ``... an out of place pubic hair, centipede scurrying / On the wall, wind, sirens, a shadow cast in many directions.»