[Prime Choice]

Since when are third-party pages on spiders accepted as definitive information on NASA programs?

NASA does experiments on the effects of spaceflight on spiders and other creatures. I have yet to find a NASA site that indicates NASA does any sort of drug-related experiments on spiders or any other creature.

But don't take my word for it, try your own Google search. http://www.google.com/search?q=nasa%2Bspiders%2Bdrugs

[KangarooJacqui]

Since when are third-party pages on spiders accepted as definitive information on NASA programs?

Exactly. And since when does this qualify as "Breaking news" or "Front Page News"? Expect this to be moved to the Smokey Backroom or at the very least, General Interest/Chat before too long.

[Action-America]

This is not Front Page News. The study that the above article refers to is very old (1995).

The results of the very real NASA study was first published in "NASA Tech Briefs", April 1995 Issue, in an article titled, "Using Spider-Web Patterns to Determine Toxicity", by Drs. R. J. Cronise, and R. A. Relwani. The New Yorker Magazine had a lot of fun with it at the time, claiming such things as, the results of the study had identified caffeine as the "human error drug".

I remember reading about it and thinking, "This is what our taxes are going for?!!!"

I'm normally a big supporter of NASA, but this one was way off base.

 

[Lucky_underpants]

Here ya go dude.....

http://science.nasa.gov/faq/NASA%20Tech%20Brief.pdf