Yeah my search engine saw traffic of up to 160 queries per second the other day from some bot that was ostensibly searching for information on Jack Parsons. Just variations on the same query in different permutations of filters and site:-terms.
No I think this is the same case. It seems to just be following local links on the SERP. From a search for jack parsons, you can find hyperlinks to the sorts of requests it's making.
