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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness

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World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness

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resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Deep underground in a dark, sulfuric cave on the border between Albania and Greece, scientists have made an incredible discovery – a giant communal spider web spanning more than 100 square meters (1,000 sq ft), dense enough to resemble a living curtain, home to an estimated 110,000 spiders. In…

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38448510

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    Abandon, all hope.

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      No way. This is cool.

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    The signal to noise ratio on that network has gotta be insane.

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    The sheer hubris of actually touching it repeatedly. There is no way to know how it could react to outside bacteria and whatever else is on him. He might have just killed the entire thing just to get his Tik Tok video.

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      You summed up Tik Tok perfectly, yes.

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      Just being there and breathing probably releases more bacteria than just touching it

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    Spiders Georg is absolutely beside himself

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    Lolth smiles upon thee.

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    Is this the dark web I keep hearing about?

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    Shelob!

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    I wonder if they have any social interactions with each other, beyond mating and so on.

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      Not since the cotillion last June.

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      I wonder how much cannibalism there is. I cant imagine their prey make it far past the entrance.

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      Go to a lil market, discuss politics, chat in coffee shops, etc … all in a friendly manner between two species where one is 4× larger (in body-length alone) than the other. Basically like humans & cats.

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        Did you, by chance, read “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky? 😬

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