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Who knows? I think everybody's too scared of the thing to comment on it.
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praise peanut, who started this wiki.
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I was going to say "don't be horny for the nut" but realized that sounded more ridiculous than just calling it thicc
Skiddadle, skodoken, your neck is now B R O K E N
all praise da magic peanut! to show my support I plus 2'd
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Buy why would someone be scared to discuss this?
Because its hard to post and not to lose eyesight of the statue.
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What a wonderful scientific break through, we should study this creature. So who wants to put on a red shirt and go in there?
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
i nominate the new guy who keeps responding to ancient posts.
Indeed he is a wise gentlemen but surely a strong man like yourself should go in
When the Lamb opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there before me was a black horse! Its rider was holding a pair of scales in his hand. Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!"
Darn it!
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SCP Foundation- We Secure. We Contain. We Protect. https://docs.google.com/a/usd331.org/document/d/1XHaccqYf2ncu9-QAyR9yStjkqnvw1z-u1hLZAw8_6V0/pub and here is a link to my book about the foundation. You can message me about the book, but the article is something I will take off soon. https://docs.google.com/a/usd331.org/document/d/1ofHExObA0vQ2VzGpbd7LnT5ldsA49ZuFjPtaGTx3lKg/pub
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This discussion is from four years ago, y'ken.
If both of you don't go there, I'll [DATA EXPUNGED] you. You better hurry.
Goes from No discussion in 2008, to the most comments in 2012. Go figure. :D
Thats bcuz of SCP-Containment Breach. He's like the star of it.
I only know about the SCP Foundation because of that game.
I am from Mark's LP's, too. However, He seems to have gone downhill after his return from Europe. I wonder why.
(account deleted)I come from roblox when I type three random letters SCP comes and here I am.
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A legend deserves no discussion. That's just how it is
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Nobody dares to come here beacuse they fear to break eye contact.
Ah, but they may be from another site! Peanut ain't that fast…
Joystick Hero: I'm really tempted to revert your edit. It's a good one, but this is, you know, 173, the ORIGINAL. Adding something to it kinda feels like… I dunno, improving the Venus de Milo by adding an alarm clock to its torso. Maybe you could put it in an experiment log instead?
The problem with that is it appears as though now we can easily stop it just by putting a security camera in its enclosure.
What I've always loved the idea of is that if you take a picture of it, nothing unusual will happen. When the film is developed, however, you won't see it. It'll be as if there's a hole in the picture.
I've also always loved the idea that if you put a security camera in its enclosure, then it seemingly coudn't move… but within a few seconds the camera would be broken.
'Course, then it'd need be explained why everyone who's looked at it hasn't gone blind…
Because viewing it by proxy only makes it appear to stop, and makes it destroy the proxy.
Viewing it directly actually stops it.
I am reverting this. Also, I am blocking this from further edits. I will PM Joystick's edits to him so that he doesn't lose them: it's good stuff, but it doesn't belong on the 173 article.
Some things should be left timeless.
I was gonna suggest the same thing, but I guess I'm 10 years late 😂
We could always make a log of unusual incidences revolving around 173 since I think I've counted around 3.
I'm putting what little weight I have behind this suggestion. Couldn't we add that link to the page, right at the bottom? Something like the following…
References: Please consult the file [[SCP-173 Incident Reports]] for further information. (WARNING: SCP INCIDENT REPORTS ARE CLASSIFIED LEVEL 4 SECURITY)
If we have anything to add to this file, we can put it there instead of here.
Also, a RL friend of mine was considering making a storyline happen where one of his SCPs caused 173 to escape.
Asking seriously, what is this thing? More precisely, what is the actual object whose photo was used for the illustration?
A humanlike statue made of concrete and rebar.
Thank you. It's so weird I have to wonder why it was made.
what's the source? Was this made specifically for the article?
The statue visible in SCP-173's image is an original sculpture on which the SCP was based, and was created by Izumi Kato.
You can read more about it here.
Oh my god. Those pictures of 173 at various places and such. It just feels so wrong when all you associate with it is this website. And jesus christ he has siblings.
You expect to find something normal on this site HA!
I gotta say. In my opinion the picture is the creepiest part of this entire SCP.
I mean, holy fuck, just LOOK at it.
Apologies for jumping right in here and asking this without introducing myself, but I'm surprised nobody else has yet.
Why's it classified Euclid rather than Keter?
Probably for historical reasons. As the first SCP ever, the entry is stored in its original form, even the bits that don't quite match the standards that have since been established.
Because Keter is reserved for things that are hard to control, and highly dangerous, of which this is neither.
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My question is why it's Euclid rather than Safe. It doesn't seem to be able to break out of its containment, and on the off chance it does, it won't get too far before getting in view of two people.
Well, this is the very first instance of Euclid anything, and I'd strongly argue against the idea of redefining the original that started it all.
But as for WHY this is Euclid, it is because the statue itself has something resembling a mind of its own. One of the original definitions of Euclid was "like a wild animal, unpredictable and reacting to stimuli in different ways"
We know it is hostile, but it might express that hostility in different ways. For example, if it got the opportunity to attack, it might go for a victim that was farther away in favor of an easy kill because it reeeeeaaally hates that other bastard. But who knows the true motives of an ugly, animate, murderous hunk of concrete and rebar? Hence, Euclid.
To go for the more current definition, what would happen if we locked this up in a room and ignored it? We don't know! We don't know where the filth that fills its cell comes from. Who knows what would happen without regular cleaning and maintenance? Maybe something worse than a pile of bloody shit.
edit: removed redundancies that needed removal
I would argue that it is the combination of a Euclid rating, as well as the explicit directive that "The enclosure must be cleaned on a bi-weekly basis." is, in itself, an evocative bit of story telling.
The clues are there to indicate that the Foundation knows more about this object then it's telling. Though the secretive elements of SCPs would be later codified in the form of explicit [REDACTED] there are more then a few subtle instances of the fingerprints of the Foundation's secrecy, as you see here in 173 as well as through out the Foundation's catalogue.
I'm having an amusing mental image of D-class personnel running from the chamber yelling "She's gonna BLOW" followed by the chamber door bursting with shit, blood and a very pissed and smelly SCP-173, just because nobody had the guts to clean it for a month.
Once again, please don't necropost.
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I think it should be safe, its pretty easy to contain, 173 is not very smart either.
I think you forget the fact that if you blink you die.
That's… not quite true. If you blink and 173 is already within someone's line of sight, then you're fine. It's when it's not being observed when it moves and snaps necks.
Blinking with one eye at a time? So that 1 eye is watching constantly
As so many other people said in this thread, try doing it yourself. It's really hard to do, and most people can't do it for more than a couple of minutes, if that. It's not exactly viable in the long term. Or even the short term.
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Works for me for quite some time and if im reminded constantly e.i constantly thinking ababout it or having a flippin deadly statue facing you but in a life/death situation… people are known to often push some limits then :/ but yeah i agree to some extent.
Now do it in an area that reeks of excrement and blood - probably bad enough to make your eyes water.
Really, the winking thing is something you'd for the rest of your life…
Ok I might be necroing a little bit what if you duck under 173's arms? Wouldn't he not be able to snap your neck?
There's no reason at all to suppose that it uses those little nubs to kill you in the first place.
Now I am rly confused. Would they snap ur neck using anomalous means? I am not going to say 173 is flawed but someone could have put more thought into this
Would they snap ur neck using anomalous means?
It could. It's a freakin' moving statue made of otherwise normal rebar and concrete. It operates based on principles completely unknown to science, who's to say it can't kill you using anomalous means?
Even if it uses it's "arms" to kill you, the thing moves faster than you can blink. You can't duck faster than you can blink; you'd have no way to avoid 173.
I am not going to say 173 is flawed but someone could have put more thought into this
This is probably the one time that I can say that you can't fault the original writer for the state of 173. 173 was the first SCP, and was not written with the intent to kickstart a collaborative writing site. It was, essentially, a random post placed on the /x/ board of 4chan.
It's Euclid because it's easy to contain (just look at it and it's lifeless) but it's not safe because it can kill almost anything (the thing almost killed 682 for god's sake, if the Foundation had done some more damage to it previously, it might have even killed the unkillable reptile). The real question should be: This SCP page is quite the legend, but it lacks SO much information. What if we simply buried the thing? Is it destructible? How fast does it move? Can we film it while no one's watching?
Can you give me some directions? I keep trying to find the file or tale that has 173 vs. 682 but so far the closest I found was that mail-order-SCP magazine (am I the only one who loved the "girls of SCP" idea?) Also as a Doctor Who fangirl I can't help but notice that 173 operates EXACTLY like the Weeping Angels from the show with one or two exceptions. While both the weeping angels and 173 possess immense strength and mind blowing speed ("They're fast, faster than you can believe." a quote from The Doctor in the episode "Blink") Weeping Angels usually send their victim back in time with a touch so they can live off the potential energy of all that person's unfulfilled moments back in "present day." To my knowledge there's only been one episode where the Weeping Angels went so far as to snap their victim's neck and that was to use the transmitter in his helmet to speak. Another difference is 173 can be monitored to some extent whereas even an image of a weeping angel can still kill you if you look away.
173 came first, posted sometime in 2007 on 4chan's /x/. The Angels came weeks later, I think. It was just a coincidence.
Or Dr. Who copied the idea…
(probably not considering most TV show are made months in advance but still…)
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No the guy who made it copied off dr who
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