Spiders fly on the currents of Earth's electric field
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Spiders don’t have wings, but they can fly across entire oceans on long strands of silk. For more than a century, scientists thought it was the wind that carried them, but a new study shows the Earth’s electric field can propel these flying arachnids too.
  • NoFuckingWaynado@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    The real reason the Titanic sank is they sailed through a Spidercloud, and the captain freaked out and swerved into it.

  • scratsearcher 🔍🔮📊🎲@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Do you know that feeling when you walk outside and suddenly have a random spiderweb-strain in your face? You need to wipe it out of your face with a hand. Maybe this was my spidery flying friend using electric fields to fly past my face.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 days ago

    Hooray. This brought up one of the less pleasant memories from my childhood involving the natural world.

    My room was in the basement of the house. It was only a half-finished basement and my room took up most of the finished half. But because it was only half finished, spiders were not a stranger to my room.

    One day, I woke up and my face was weirdly itchy. I turned on the light and a billion little transparent baby spiders were hanging all over the room by little threads! I freaked the fuck out and ran upstairs and slept on the couch for two days. Thankfully, they were gone when I went back down.

    • irish_link@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      22 days ago

      Are… are you okay? Like do you need some mental help. I think I would need to visit a psych ward after something like that. Hell seeing arachnophobia as a kid messed me up let alone actually living out a version of it in real life.