scorpion

The scorpion dooms himself by his own nature, where as the girl is merely trusting and punished for it.

The Wikipedia description of the Scorpion describes a plane which has a top speed and ceiling that barely match a commercial jet liner.

There's a scorpion antivenom that routinely costs $12,000 or more per vial in the United States.

Expecting those with the most power in the world to act in good faith is a scorpion and frog tale.

Bear in mind that most places, HR is trusted roughly as much as your average scorpion.

You should probably stick to fast-paced shows with satisfying endings, like Scorpion or CSI: Cyber.

Serious Sam 3 and the evil scorpion, now that shit is hilarious and must be delightful for the developers to think about.

The Scorpion does have a valid use: as an observation platform.

[1] Yet, if you were to go there, fill your trunk with scorpion antivenom, then bring it back to the U.

I had only ever heard the scorpion version, never the snake.

>Comparatively, Scorpion offers speed over the twin-turboprops and simplicity versus the trainers, which are structurally optimized to withstand high G forces in order to prepare pilots for the F-22 or F-35.

There's a fable, "The Scorpion and the Frog" [1] wherein the moral is (copied from Wikipedia): The fable is used to illustrate the position that no change can be made in the behavior of the fundamentally vicious.

What does this have to do with "scorpion"?

They claim that no minimal pairs can be found; but how could there be no closeness in form between any words, when you have a rich vocabulary with words like "lemon" and "scorpion" as they mention?

It's not good enough to go against more advanced fighter jets (so you can't use it to ensure air superiority) and it's not as cheap as "weaponized" trainer aircraft - which is what most governments need (to bomb rebels or whatever) You can buy a L-39 for ~$200K, retrofit it with modern weapon systems (easier said than done, but still) and you won't be that much worse off than a guy with a $20m Scorpion.

In TV they're still black-faced by shows like The Big Bang Theory and Scorpion.

Still a better hacking story than Scorpion...

I'd also be curious to know what percentage of that price tag is made up by the modern avionics and datalink systems that you get out of the box with the Scorpion.