No spiders in space yet!
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I mean, just a short time ago, there were no humans in space. Maybe the spiders have their own space travel now.
I’m certain the dolphins and mice do, we’re just not quite there yet.
Don't worry not a spider in "space" just a green screen glitch.
That is until you learn that space spiders are invisible
I think I know a really funny prank we can pull with the next supplies shipment to the space station lol.
Four spiders, numbered 1, 2, 3, and 5. Large enough to be legible of course.
Edible you say?
No, Georg, stop it!
I'm not entirely sure I'm comfortable with having spiders large enough to write on. I know they exist but now that I've thought about it I don't like it.
Well you see, that's the hilarious part. You won't have those spiders anymore, the astronaut will. Floating in his tin can. Far above the moon. Planet earth is blue and there's nothing he can do. 🎸🎸🎸👏👏
.... Remind me to hit you up for ideas when someone has wronged me in life lol
ive never played dead space past the tutorial but im guessing thats how dead space happened
I beat that game years ago and I honestly don't remember the story at all. I am now choosing to believe it was a prank that went super super wrong haha.
In space no one knows when you actually are a spider.
Couldn’t a spider hitch a ride on something brought into the rocket?
Maybe, but I have to admit that I've never seen a spider hitchhiking on the side of a road.
Really shows in what kind of society we live when a lone spider doesn't feel save to hitchhike with strangers
But there is a chance for one to stoveaway on a rocket load.
No spiders yet.
I must be weird cause spiders are bros. I always help em out and move em elsewhere whilst telling em to keep on killing the enemy bugs.
Spiders are awesome especially the jumping varietals.
I'm from Australia.
Some spiders are absolutely bros.
Others seem to exist only to fuck you up.
Once you know the difference you're fine, but I don't blanket assume that every spider I find is a friend.
Your continent is the perpetual exception to the rule. Least in north America there aren’t a ton of spiders that pose a huge threat past this 8 legged trauma people have. Most of our spiders are lil jumpy boys. And web ones but they are pretty obvious. The ones I’m not overly keen on are the daddy long legs. Legs for days but they just seem like sea spiders on land.
Spiders are usually Bros, but sometimes they're assholes.
Had one in the bathroom, whilst I was showering. What did he do with all the hot steamy air? Why, crawl towards it of course. Never mind the frequent misteps that threatened to drop him on the floor because, oh I dont know, the ceiling is wet - no - crawling precariously to the danger is the most reasonable response...
Later that day, I'm just chilling on the toilet with my phone, and he wants to drop by to say hello. How does he do it? Hang down slowly and land in front of me? Lower himself onto the toilet cistern so as not to disturb me?
Hell no! Fucker decides to lower himself next to my ear and tickle it, so that I immediately respond with a hand slap that sends him into pieces.
I miss him in a weird way, but he was a real asshole.
Spiders are always welcome in my garden. They come with free pest control.
Did anybody see what happened to the spider experiments box over near the airlock? I could have sworn that was where I left it.
They went down to the planet and enslaved the ants that live there.
I understood that reference.
It was a common Understanding
Not before the ants danced at a rock
I might need to split my mind in two and wait a thousand years to get this one
Except when there are: https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-happens-to-spiders-webs-in-space
Now, a study of orb spiders (Trichonephila clavipes) in space has revealed that these smart arachnids can orientate themselves with light when there is no gravity to tell them which way is 'up'.
So you're telling me they are already adapted to space, a place where they wouldn't be size-constrained by gravity...
Pretty sure their size-constraint isn't gravity anyways, it's oxygen. Assuming arachnids 'breathe' like insects, anyways
Yeah you are probably right. i vaguely remember giant dragonflies in that Earth age with more oxygen.
I'll burn the script then... Although a space station with broken scrubbers...
Oh, shit.
That was a very cool read, thanks!
i would think of a fly or gnat, or cockroach way before spider. and if i thought "spider!" i would be cool because spiders are chill.
No spiders... yet!
Life finds a way.
That's what the spiders want you to think
But thed did have an escape in 2008, I think they stole a tool bag (one went missing, so it must have been the spiders) Escaped spiders
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