Spider Runs Amuck on Space Station
Source: Tom's Guide | Keywords: Spider, Space, Station, Carnage
A spider is running amuck aboard the International Space Station although NASA denies any arachnid wrongdoings.
According to a news article over on FOXNews, two orb weaver spiders were actually launched into space last Friday as part of a science experiment aimed towards earth-bound students between grades K-12. The lovely couple was accompanied by painted lady butterfly larvae, with the sole intention for students to compare both insect species living in weightlessness to identical insects found on Earth. For the butterflies, students are to compare the life cycles; for the spiders, students are to study how they weave webs without gravity.
Astronauts checked out the spiders Monday and reported that the spun webs were more of a tangled mess than the symmetrical versions earthlings are accustomed to walking into. "The web was more or less three-dimensional and it looked like it was all over the inside of the spider hab," said NASA astronaut Sandra Magnus, the space station’s science officer. "We took some pictures of it, so hopefully they will turn out."
In other words, it was more like a tangled, disorganized mess.
However, it seems one of the spiders, having grown irritated with its habitat, broke free and is nowhere to be seen. No doubt the poor spider is having artistic troubles and is looking for a good place to drown its sorrows.
According to the space station’s flight director, they’re not really "missing" the spider at all, and thus the explanation gets a little strange. "The way it was explained to me, he came out of his bedroom and may be into the living room of the house." NASA event confirmed that the arachnid hasn’t "gone amuck" even though no one knows were the insect really is or how it escaped its frigid prison in the first place.
Kirk Shireman, NASA’s deputy station program manager, seems pretty confident that they’ll uncover the spider eventually. "I’m sure we’ll find him spinning a web sometime here in the next few days."
Yeah, buddy. We’ve played Doom 3, we’ve watched sci-fi movies. We know what spiders holed up in space are capable of.
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Those spiders were running amuck all over in Dead Space too!
Mutated spiders thanks to NASA.
Amuck? Amok? This word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means...
LMAO! Love the title to this.
Amuck? Amok? This word you keep using, I do not think it means what you think it means...
How do you know if the spider is really running around mad or not? He's trying to spin a web, and it isn't coming out right. He's probably gone mad with rage over his frustration that his web isn't as beautiful as it should be....
How else did the spider break out of his cage?
Maybe the female spider blamed her husband for the f'd up webs and ate him.
Maybe the female spider blamed her husband for the f'd up webs and ate him.
that is genius... I'd like to second this theory.
My second theory would be that the spider was tired of being observed like some sort of arachnoid specimen (his name was Charles dammit!) by snot nosed kids from a now distance planet. Upon committing suicide he was tossed into the latrine by his spider wife (Sofia) so that he would be washed out into space via the latrine ejection portal, per his wishes - which he made clear in his last, seemingly entangled suicidal web spun. It is possible that his suicide note of a web is indeed, a farewell 3D masterpiece.
I can't read spider web, can you? You would think if anyone could, rocket scientists would be able to. Perhaps once the "experiment" is brought home for analysis, the true story of the spider's humiliation and last moments will be unraveled from a raveled 3D web.
EDIT: distant. Edit button PLEASE. At least give us a "one time" edit button? Even with the preview function, it sure would be nice.
Actually, I have an even BETTER idea.
Why not have a "this has been edited" notation beside edited posts, and then keep the original post viewable through a button beside that? None of that would require much room, but it would allow us to fix our typos without changing what we originally said. Now I'm thinking. Keep the "you can edit this once" idea though. I like that.
Everyone gets ONE edit, and the original post is saved and viewable via a button.
Spiders are not insects.
Spiders are not insects.
Well, few people can tell the difference let along what an Arthropod is.
Spiders are not insects.
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