Posted on 11/04/2004 12:44:15 PM PST by TxBec
Got pics?
Lucid? OMG! Its going to make us all PACIFISTS! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Michael Moore just sneezed in LA?
Talk about a smog alert.
How about a better description?
I love a man in uniform.
yeah.. but it barely shows up
Where do you work?.... wait I am not sure that I want to know the answer to that question....
Bwhahahah. . .you owe me for a new keyboard, as I spewed my coke all over the place because of that visual.
Ft Hood?
Ft Hood you say. . .hmmmm. . .you see nothing, NOTHING, you hear!! (The black helicoters will be by shortly).
OTOH, you might want to run away to Belton or Temple.
The simplest sort of webbing is perhaps the most important. Ballooning allows many kinds of spiders to disperse around the world, wafted on air currents across even the widest oceans and highest mountains. When conditions of breeze and season are right, young spiders ascend to the top of any available elevation, spin a few short strands of silk, feel the tug of the wind, and let go. They arrived on Krakatau in 1883 within weeks after that volcanic island exploded and destroyed all life. Charles Darwin gathered them in mid-Atlantic during his trip on H.M.S. Beagle, and ballooning spiderlings have been collected from airplanes at very high altitude. I watched minute airborne spiders arrive on mid-Pacific islands from the nearest continent over two thousand miles away. I remember an astonishing spring day in the Eastern United States when from horizon to horizon the cloudless blue sky sparkled with pinpricks of light. It was so eerie, so beautiful, my skin rose in goose bumps—until it prickled with hundreds of tiny spiderlings alighting on me to seek their way in the world.
And here is another from a government website:
In autumn, most of the gossamers In fields and drifting through the air were spun by the tiny Balloon Spiders. Sometimes, borne away by those streamers, they are found far above the clouds or far out at sea.
I probably should not admit but I see them too. They are drifting from pretty high up and are drifting N to S.
I live near RR620 and Parmer, Avery Ranch area.
It's those Cuban and Chinese paratroopers.
thank you!! my sons and I (and my son's friends) thought it could be something like the spider explanation above, but you can see how MANY there are and how unusual that would be.
Not to worry.
...Ziggy Stardust is in control.
you are about an hour away, so I can't imagine how many there are.
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Spider webs in the sky's bad . . . But please tell us you don't see moose up there . . . |
no cheese either :)
I remember a thread like this a couple of years ago on FR...it was the ballooning spider thing.
Geez... I was hoping you were talking about Austin. Someone needs to declare war on Austin.:)
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