Psst...Hey, Martok!

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MetalDog

I don't have an article to cite, but, in my experience, daddy longlegs will pile up, one upon another, in the fall.  Don't know if it's a mating thing, an end of life thing, or something completely different.  Never seen anything else like it.
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LongBlade

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MetalDog

Flying connotes a mechanism for continued, voluntary, locomotion.  Spiders have no such appendage/ability.  Therefore, spiders ride the wind, but do not fly.
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LongBlade

Quote from: MetalDog on October 27, 2015, 02:12:30 PM
Flying connotes a mechanism for continued, voluntary, locomotion.  Spiders have no such appendage/ability.  Therefore, spiders ride the wind, but do not fly.

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

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Martok

Quote from: Silent Disapproval Robot on September 23, 2015, 11:41:12 PM
And back to your regularly scheduled program of trying to drive Martok round the bend....

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3246167/Spiders-big-RATS-invade-Cheshire-town.html
Yeah, I read that article.  I do not envy geek and Bawb at all.  I'll take my Minnesota mosquitoes any day of the week! 




Quote from: LongBlade on September 26, 2015, 05:38:16 PM
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

QuoteUsing a lighter to kill the bug, he started a blaze that quickly engulfed the gas pump.



He somehow escaped serious injury and the gas station's damage was contained to one pump, which was destroyed. The incident was recorded at a Center Line gas station.

Employee Susan Adams kept calm and hit the gas automatic stop button and quickly called the Center Line fire department.



The man grabbed a nearby extinguisher and put out the flames before firefighters arrived. Later he admitted what he did, saying he spotted a spider on his gas tank and because he's deathly afraid of the critters.

source: http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/24780872-story
Ahahahaha!!  That's great. 

He may be an idiot, but that man is still my hero. 




Quote from: bbmike on November 03, 2015, 06:57:51 PM
Techno Lightsaber Spiders  Run Martok!
Unless it's an adept of the dark side of the Force, we have nothing to fear. 

(Oh wait, never mind, it's a spider.  You're right; run!!!) 

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BanzaiCat

Fortunately, fire will never go extinct.

JasonPratt

http://www.wxii12.com/spiders-invade-neighborhood-in-north-memphis/36632974?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=WXII%2012%20NEWS&Content%20Type=Video

Half mile long spiderweb in North Memphis. Now you, too, can benefit from SCIENCE! -- let Doctors Someoneandanother use SCIENCE to melt away the fat of your inherited double chin, safely and... wait, that was the commercial. Nothing to do with the spiders, promise.  O:-)
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Dawn of Armageddon -- narrative AAR for Dawn of War: Soulstorm: Ultimate Apocalypse
Survive Harder! -- Two season narrative AAR, an Amazon Blood Bowl career.
PanzOrc Corpz Generals -- Fantasy Wars narrative AAR, half a combined campaign.
Khazâd du-bekâr! -- narrative dwarf AAR for LotR BfME2 RotWK campaign.
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Martok

Quote from: Barthheart on November 19, 2015, 12:18:55 PM
Quote from: JasonPratt on November 19, 2015, 12:14:25 PM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/11/18/this-new-daddy-longlegs-is-named-smeagol-and-its-precious-and-eyeless/?tid=sm_fb

Gollum. Gollum.

AND they are trying to save it from extinction!
Yeah, they've got the wrong idea there.  >:( 




Quote from: JasonPratt on November 24, 2015, 03:22:27 PM
http://www.wxii12.com/spiders-invade-neighborhood-in-north-memphis/36632974?utm_source=Social&utm_medium=FBPAGE&utm_campaign=WXII%2012%20NEWS&Content%20Type=Video

Half mile long spiderweb in North Memphis. Now you, too, can benefit from SCIENCE! -- let Doctors Someoneandanother use SCIENCE to melt away the fat of your inherited double chin, safely and... wait, that was the commercial. Nothing to do with the spiders, promise.  O:-)
Yep, I read about this story a few days ago.  I know it's not a new phenomenon, but the notion of thousands (millions?) of spiders gathering together to build a ginormous web is just f-ing creepy.  :-\ 

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LongBlade

A cautionary tale for our friend.

QuoteA man's noisy attempts to kill a spider caused his neighbors to call the police, reporting a suspected violent domestic incident.

Officers in Sydney went to the address after numerous calls were made claiming a woman could be heard screaming hysterically and a man yelling "I'm going to kill you, you're dead. Die! Die!"

QuoteBelow is their transcript of the conversation that followed:

Police: We had a report of a domestic and a women screaming, where is she?

Male: I don't know what you're talking about, I live alone.

Police: Come on mate, people clearly heard you yelling you were going to kill her and furniture getting thrown around the unit.

Police: Come on mate, what have you done to her?

Male: It was a spider.

Police: Sorry??

Male: It was a spider, a really big one!!

Police: What about the woman screaming?

Male: Yeah sorry that was me, I really, really hate spiders.

What neighbours thought was a serious incidence of domestic violence was in fact the man chasing the arachnid around his home with a can of spider spray.

The police report concluded: "After a very long pause, some laughter and a quick look in the unit to make sure there was no injured party (apart from the spider) we left."

source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/26/man-attempt-to-kill-spider-confused-with-domestic-violence-sparks-police-call/?intcmp=hplnws
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Staggerwing

I'd say "Only in the Antipodes" but I just know there will be (and, in fact, may already have been) a similar incident in a certain US State *cough*Florida*cough*.

Interesting that the Aussie incident happened in a suburb named after the maiden name of the author of 'Frankenstein'. I don't know why it's interesting but it is.
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Martok

Quote from: LongBlade on November 26, 2015, 06:06:20 PM
A cautionary tale for our friend.

QuoteA man's noisy attempts to kill a spider caused his neighbors to call the police, reporting a suspected violent domestic incident.

Officers in Sydney went to the address after numerous calls were made claiming a woman could be heard screaming hysterically and a man yelling "I'm going to kill you, you're dead. Die! Die!"

QuoteBelow is their transcript of the conversation that followed:

Police: We had a report of a domestic and a women screaming, where is she?

Male: I don't know what you're talking about, I live alone.

Police: Come on mate, people clearly heard you yelling you were going to kill her and furniture getting thrown around the unit.

Police: Come on mate, what have you done to her?

Male: It was a spider.

Police: Sorry??

Male: It was a spider, a really big one!!

Police: What about the woman screaming?

Male: Yeah sorry that was me, I really, really hate spiders.

What neighbours thought was a serious incidence of domestic violence was in fact the man chasing the arachnid around his home with a can of spider spray.

The police report concluded: "After a very long pause, some laughter and a quick look in the unit to make sure there was no injured party (apart from the spider) we left."

source: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/26/man-attempt-to-kill-spider-confused-with-domestic-violence-sparks-police-call/?intcmp=hplnws
Pansy.  A guy with even a shred of dignity and/or masculinity does not kill a spider using "bug spray" (professional exterminators like MetalDog don't count).  Sheesh.  ::) 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces