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[-] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 month ago

Sadly we have yet to discover their more powerful relative, the Trebuchet Spider

[-] Cypher@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck yeah another awesome Australian spider!

Those green ants are tasty too, you can eat the abdomen for a nice citrusy snack.

[-] Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 6 points 1 month ago
[-] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 points 1 month ago
[-] maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Imagine if spiders were big and human predators. Being launched at mach 100 as you were walking to your car is crazy

[-] Orioniae@piefed.social 5 points 1 month ago

Mosquito: “BZZZZZ ò-ó”

Spider: “GET YEETETH, THINE UNSPEAKABLE PRAY

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago

Super cool.

[-] Numenor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Why's the video only in slow motion? Tells us very little. First show full speed, then slow motion, then full speed again (you fucks).

[-] Zozano@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

How the fuck does evolution begin to explain the process of spiders various techniques.

Some of them make sense.

Trapdoor spiders.

Tarantula.

Huntsman.

Then you got spiders which position themselves on a branch above their target, and slip down a rope Mission Impossible style.

Other spiders curl up into a ball and let the wind carry them to safety if something goes wrong.

And now this shit.

[-] Zoop@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Holy cow! That's both super impressive and interesting and gives me mad heebie jeebies! Thanks for sharing with us. :)

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Get Fulton'd stupid

[-] M137@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I didn't get any sleep last night so it might just be my wonky brain but isn't "at 140x the force of gravity" an incredibly weird and wrong way to say it? They're talking about G forces, which are specific to earth gravity, so its 140Gs. "140 times the force of gravity" means nothing, it's like saying "it's 100 times heavier than mass".

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