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spidey senses
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Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
That was a very cool read, thanks!
UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Pretty sure their size-constraint isn’t gravity anyways, it’s oxygen. Assuming arachnids ‘breathe’ like insects, anyways
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Oh, shit.
gens@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Bonus spiders on drugs.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
No spiders… yet!
nathanjent@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
Life finds a way.
mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Spiders are always welcome in my garden. They come with free pest control.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
That’s what the spiders want you to think
sudo42@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Four spiders, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5. Large enough to be legible of course.
Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 weeks ago
ive never played dead space past the tutorial but im guessing thats how dead space happened
Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
Couldn’t a spider hitch a ride on something brought into the rocket?
tetris11@lemmy.ml 5 weeks 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 weeks ago
Really shows in what kind of society we live when a lone spider doesn’t feel save to hitchhike with strangers
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Giant alien sliders are no joke!
Hawke@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Wouldn’t a giant slider be just a burger?
nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Damn typo
dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 weeks ago
Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam
hexabs@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
You have lost [crewmember]
gens@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Not even the computer remembers his name.
BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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 weeks ago
It’ll be a giant spider invasion of savings at Menards!
Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks 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
DaedalousIlios@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
No spiders in space yet!
i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
I’m certain the dolphins and mice do, we’re just not quite there yet.
lnxtx@feddit.nl 5 weeks ago
Imagine infestation with 🛏️bugs.
ieatpwns@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Portia didn’t like that
BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I think maybe a spider wrote this.
gnutrino@programming.dev 5 weeks ago
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Wait did she pay that while in space? Like do b they have just their phones with them?
MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I think they might have satellite internet
Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
They do indeed have communications with earth.
propter_hog@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
They have computers and internet
intensely_human@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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 5 weeks ago
It would suck if you remembered to bring your phone but forgot the charger.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 weeks ago
I for one welcome our new lint overlords.
superfes@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Somebody need to put spiders in space already…
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In space no one knows when you actually are a spider.
leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 weeks ago
No spiders yet.
zante@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
That’s what she thinks.
visnudeva@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Don’t worry not a spider in “space” just a green screen glitch.
jdeath@lemm.ee 5 weeks 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.
Fishroot@hexbear.net 5 weeks ago
Spaceman (2024)
synapse1278@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Unless…
DragonsInARoom@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Spiders in spacesuits
ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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 weeks ago
They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.
BennyInc@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
I understood that reference.
dwraf_of_ignorance@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
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