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[-] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 155 points 10 months 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 42 points 10 months ago

They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.

[-] BennyInc@feddit.org 18 points 10 months ago

I understood that reference.

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Not before the ants danced at a rock

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago

I might need to split my mind in two and wait a thousand years to get this one

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[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 85 points 10 months ago
[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 22 points 10 months ago

That was a very cool read, thanks!

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 22 points 10 months 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 7 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure their size-constraint isn't gravity anyways, it's oxygen. Assuming arachnids 'breathe' like insects, anyways

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[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 points 10 months ago
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[-] marcos@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago
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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

That's what the spiders want you to think

[-] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 42 points 10 months 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 21 points 10 months 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 11 points 10 months 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 5 points 10 months 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.

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[-] sudo42@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

"I have had it with these motherfing ~~snakes~~ spiders on this motherfing ~~plane~~ spacestation!"

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 24 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Giant alien spiders are no joke!

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Wouldn’t a giant slider be just a burger?

[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 5 points 10 months ago
[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 12 points 10 months ago

Gotta use that Anti-bio Beam

[-] hexabs@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

You have lost [crewmember]

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[-] Majorllama@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months 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 13 points 10 months ago

Four spiders, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5. Large enough to be legible of course.

[-] Majorllama@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months 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.

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[-] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago

ive never played dead space past the tutorial but im guessing thats how dead space happened

[-] Majorllama@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months 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 22 points 10 months ago

Couldn’t a spider hitch a ride on something brought into the rocket?

[-] tetris11@lemmy.ml 14 points 10 months 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 6 points 10 months ago

Really shows in what kind of society we live when a lone spider doesn't feel save to hitchhike with strangers

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[-] Tomato666@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 10 months 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 13 points 10 months ago

No spiders in space yet!

[-] ieatpwns@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Portia didn’t like that

[-] CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 11 points 10 months ago
[-] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 10 months 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 8 points 10 months ago

I’m certain the dolphins and mice do, we’re just not quite there yet.

[-] lnxtx@feddit.nl 9 points 10 months ago

Imagine infestation with 🛏️bugs.

[-] BigBenis@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible

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[-] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 8 points 10 months ago

but what if they're were, adam sandler would like a word

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[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 10 months ago

I for one welcome our new lint overlords.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

I think maybe a spider wrote this.

[-] DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 5 points 10 months ago

Wait did she pay that while in space? Like do b they have just their phones with them?

[-] MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 10 months ago

I think they might have satellite internet

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

They do indeed have communications with earth.

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

They have computers and internet

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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

In space no one knows when you actually are a spider.

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago

No spiders yet.

[-] superfes@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Somebody need to put spiders in space already...

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