We Just Found Out Spiders Can Use Electricity to Fly Through The Air

ScienceAlert ^ | Thursday, July 5, 2018 | Jacinta Bowler

[RegulatorCountry]

Yes it does. Sort of like Cthulu for President or Giant Asteroid 2012.

[HombreSecreto]

It’s all good - GMTA!

[HombreSecreto]

At the Fillmore...Bill Graham presents...

Strawberry Alarm Clock, Electric Flying Spiders, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Jefferson Airplane

Good times. ;)

[SunkenCiv]

Yes it does. Sort of like Cthulu for President or Giant Asteroid 2012.

Good idea, let's run those through:

As if the Demagogic Party weren't enough -- Cthulu for President!

[a huge crowd of Japanese scream and run for their lives]

As if the Demagogic Party weren't enough -- Giant Asteroid 2029

[a group of Spacewatch astronomers break out hard liquor and try to decide whether to tell humanity about its impending doom]

Yup, those work. Or did you mean the spiders? ;^)

[sphinx]

FOUR-ACRE web teeming with 107 MILLION arachnids

It's Baltimore. They're all on SNAP and vote straight Democrat.

[SunkenCiv]

Shove a stick up Pluto's ass, dip him in batter, and deep fry him. Oh, wait....

[RegulatorCountry]

It’s all good, lol.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, it has a *bunch*. :^)

[al_c]

Time to ramp up the search for another life supporting planet. This one is doomed.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks, I think I watched something like this while nodding off the other night...

[SunkenCiv]

GMO first, adapt them into giant, stingless, webless flying vehicles...

[jmacusa]

Get a hold of yourself man! This is no time for levity! The spiders are on the march! Quick we have to come up with a plan. I think if I work in my secret laboratory deep under the bowels of a major America metropolis I can come up with an anti-electric flying spider ray the will neutralize the electric field produced by the spiders! I just need time.....

[RegulatorCountry]

I have a pool, no cage/screen. We routinely have spiders float into the pool, no balloon silk, just riding the air.

Well, now you know how. Good thing you weren't in there, might've gotten a bit of a jolt.

Did they short out?

[freedumb2003]

>>GMO first, adapt them into giant, stingless, webless flying vehicles...<<

Now THAT is a scifi/horror pic in the making!

[SunkenCiv]

The key to terraforming Mars? Dandelions. That'll teach the Martians to **** with us..

[Right Wing Assault]

Last week I was sitting at a table in the shade of a large oak. A spider climbed to the top of a nearby chair. It stopped moving and, with no pause, went from the chair to a tree branch six feet above it at a 45 degree angle. It took about three seconds. Calm day with only an occasional weak breeze. I have never seen a spider do that. It was like it had wings.

[SunkenCiv]

Big, big boxoffice numbers!.

[thoughtomator]

IMO electric fields are much more dominant in nature than any of our fields of science acknowledge, outside of plasma physics.

[lepton]

Spider cake?

[Kommodor]

Eek!