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spidey senses
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Now, a study of orb spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) in space has revealed that these smart arachnids can orientate themselves with light when there is no gravity to tell them which way is ‘up’.
So you’re telling me they are already adapted to space, a place where they wouldn’t be size-constrained by gravity…
Revan343@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
Pretty sure their size-constraint isn’t gravity anyways, it’s oxygen. Assuming arachnids ‘breathe’ like insects, anyways
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Oh, shit.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 days ago
That was a very cool read, thanks!
gens@programming.dev 4 days ago
Bonus spiders on drugs.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 days ago
No spiders… yet!
nathanjent@programming.dev 4 days ago
Life finds a way.
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
I must be weird cause spiders are bros. I always help em out and move em elsewhere whilst telling em to keep on killing the enemy bugs.
Spiders are awesome especially the jumping varietals.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Spiders are usually Bros, but sometimes they’re assholes.
Had one in the bathroom, whilst I was showering. What did he do with all the hot steamy air? Why, crawl towards it of course. Never mind the frequent misteps that threatened to drop him on the floor because, oh I dont know, the ceiling is wet - no - crawling precariously to the danger is the most reasonable response…
Later that day, I’m just chilling on the toilet with my phone, and he wants to drop by to say hello. How does he do it? Hang down slowly and land in front of me? Lower himself onto the toilet cistern so as not to disturb me?
Hell no! Fucker decides to lower himself next to my ear and tickle it, so that I immediately respond with a hand slap that sends him into pieces.
I miss him in a weird way, but he was a real asshole.
eclipse@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’m from Australia.
Some spiders are absolutely bros.
Others seem to exist only to fuck you up.
Once you know the difference you’re fine, but I don’t blanket assume that every spider I find is a friend.
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
Your continent is the perpetual exception to the rule. Least in north America there aren’t a ton of spiders that pose a huge threat past this 8 legged trauma people have. Most of our spiders are lil jumpy boys. And web ones but they are pretty obvious. The ones I’m not overly keen on are the daddy long legs. Legs for days but they just seem like sea spiders on land.
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Spiders are always welcome in my garden. They come with free pest control.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s what the spiders want you to think
Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I think I know a really funny prank we can pull with the next supplies shipment to the space station lol.
Randelung@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Four spiders, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5. Large enough to be legible of course.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not entirely sure I’m comfortable with having spiders large enough to write on. I know they exist but now that I’ve thought about it I don’t like it.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 4 days ago
ive never played dead space past the tutorial but im guessing thats how dead space happened
Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I beat that game years ago and I honestly don’t remember the story at all. I am now choosing to believe it was a prank that went super super wrong haha.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 4 days ago
Couldn’t a spider hitch a ride on something brought into the rocket?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
Maybe, but I have to admit that I’ve never seen a spider hitchhiking on the side of a road.
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
Really shows in what kind of society we live when a lone spider doesn’t feel save to hitchhike with strangers
sudo42@lemmy.world 5 days ago
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 3 days ago
No spiders in space yet!
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 days ago
Giant alien sliders are no joke!
Hawke@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Wouldn’t a giant slider be just a burger?
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 days ago
Damn typo
dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam
hexabs@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You have lost [crewmember]
gens@programming.dev 4 days ago
Not even the computer remembers his name.
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Project Hail Mary and the Firefall duology immediately come to mind. At least one of those kinda was a joke ;)
frezik@midwest.social 5 days ago
It’ll be a giant spider invasion of savings at Menards!
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I mean, just a short time ago, there were no humans in space. Maybe the spiders have their own space travel now.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m certain the dolphins and mice do, we’re just not quite there yet.
Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days ago
But thed did have an escape in 2008, I think they stole a tool bag (one went missing, so it must have been the spiders) Escaped spiders
BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible
lnxtx@feddit.nl 5 days ago
Imagine infestation with 🛏️bugs.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Portia didn’t like that
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I think maybe a spider wrote this.
gnutrino@programming.dev 5 days ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In space no one knows when you actually are a spider.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 days ago
No spiders yet.
visnudeva@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Don’t worry not a spider in “space” just a green screen glitch.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Wait did she pay that while in space? Like do b they have just their phones with them?
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
I think they might have satellite internet
Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 days ago
They do indeed have communications with earth.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 days ago
They have computers and internet
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 days ago
Yes they do. I follow an astronaut on X who’s got tons of photography equipment on the ISS and regularly posts shots of various cities at night and weather formations as seen from space. It’s pretty cool.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
It would suck if you remembered to bring your phone but forgot the charger.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 days ago
I for one welcome our new lint overlords.
superfes@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Somebody need to put spiders in space already…
jdeath@lemm.ee 4 days ago
i would think of a fly or gnat, or cockroach way before spider. and if i thought “spider!” i would be cool because spiders are chill.
zante@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
That’s what she thinks.
Fishroot@hexbear.net 5 days ago
Spaceman (2024)
synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Unless…
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Spiders in spacesuits
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Did anybody see what happened to the spider experiments box over near the airlock? I could have sworn that was where I left it.
hopesdead@startrek.website 5 days ago
They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.
BennyInc@feddit.org 5 days ago
I understood that reference.
dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev 2 days ago
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