Posted on 07/05/2018 5:31:12 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Then just hover around until the next plane comes along and its lights out for them too. Splash.
Soon there would be so much plane junk floating 'neath the troublesome arachnid that its friends could cross from continent to continent, form a plan, spread out and target whole airports. Then it's on to boats and helicopters. Pretty soon you're talking about a real grassroots call for shutting that whole operation down, possibly you get them to sit down at a table and tell them it violates the commerce clause, and then probably they would stop, and go back to just putting up insect nets like they used to.
I actually like spiders, as long as I can see them. I even let them live in my house.
The brave bugs with the green silk chutes...
🐂💨💩
I actually respect spiders, but sometimes you need to draw the line.
May I suggest, DDT.
Precisely!
“I have to believe there are some bigger geeks than us looking at it, turning it around, and thinking much bigger. Combined with other stuff, it might be the burst of movement that starts a process that piggybacks onto something else.”
Faster-than-light travel, the illusive FTL engine that will take us to the stars, IMHO will first come by some ordinary discovery. And then some really smart engineer will say, “Hey, I wonder if we could use that...?”
My guess is that they follow DC, rather than AC, gradients. Because, atmospheric charges with respect to earth are DC gradients.
You can't normally extract much power from those gradients, but spiders don't weigh much.
And, of course, those gradients are accentuated during thunderstorm disturbances, and eventually pilot the breakdown path of lightning.
In what distant deeps or skies,
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?
Real high tension lines operate at much higher potentials, up to 3/4 of a million volts (although its usually several hundred thousand). I had a neighbor who worked on switchgear instrumentation, and he told me that if you were under a really high voltage line in your SUV, and you decided to burn some rubber, say because you had lost traction, the smoke could provide an ionization path from the high tension line to ground, providing a continuous zap.
He also showed me a high-tension circuit breaker. It had a 2 foot throw, but that wasn't enough to stop the arc. When they triggered it to open, the blew in high pressure nitrogen to blow out the arc--otherwise the circuit wouldn't open, as the arc would continue across the spread contacts of the breaker. Hot stuff.
The spiders would be at some intermediate potential if they were in the air. The silk would probably not be very conductive. If it were, it would short the field out. Lots of potential, almost no current delivery capability.
You have been doing interesting things today. Whatcha drinkin? Sounds good.
I just wonder how the heck do they get the Sears Diehard®
off the ground.
Alas, I shelved the bottle many years ago now. 'Tis the natural pleasant lunacy that grips one on a quiet holiday-ish work day.
When I listen to my girlfriend talk all I hear is a lot of static. Could she be related to Spider Woman?
NICE!
Does sound like a comfortable lunacy indeed. Enjoy!
XD
I always liked that one.
“Inventions often result from weird connections.”
There is a wasp that can sting a spider, and turns the spider into a zombie, which then, for the first time in it’s life, spins a nest for the wasp, using the design somehow transmitted to the spider.
I sure as heck hope that whatever experiments they are doing with THAT don’t go awry!
Try FM, less static.
If the interference persists increase the volume; NB may require a volume setting of 11.
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