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apjak t1_jccxl8m wrote

Somebody never got to the end of Charlotte's Web.

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kempff t1_jcdhioe wrote

What a weird blend of sadness and joy for a young child.

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7LBoots t1_jcdaxg5 wrote

I once had about 20 little Black Widow babies crash into me while ballooning across a lake. I was fishing in a float tube, there was nothing I could do. They all just crawled up to the end of my pole and put thread out, and ballooned off into the wind.

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Romarium t1_jccvyjb wrote

They fly on electricity too

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No-Owl9201 t1_jccx01o wrote

With all the aerobatic swallows flying around here, I don't fancy being a spider just a floating in the air.

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WhoAmI1138 t1_jcd358u wrote

Aaah shit, now the American military is gonna start shooting them down.

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Landlubber77 t1_jcdcag9 wrote

Ballooning is also a technique wherein you wrap an ecstasy tab in a piece of tissue and shove it up your asshole. Take it from me, I won my 5th Grade D.A.R.E. essay contest.

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herbw t1_jcpb1mb wrote

The original boofers. It's a fast way to get drugs into the system and we sometimes use it in medicine when IV/PO meds can't be used. Or as we used to say, is it friend, or Enema?

It's very, very dangerous, tho, as the EtOH is absorbed very rapidly and can cause terminal events. 8 oz. of steel beer by mouth is safe. But from the other end can cause real troubles.

The higher the EtOH blood levels the more liver damage, too.

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DistortoiseLP t1_jcdeajk wrote

The best part is this can and does happen in large numbers, on the order of millions of spiders.

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TheDeadlySquid t1_jcdhq3n wrote

It’s how they appear nearly everywhere in the world.

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gaptoothedneckbeard t1_jcdqz1r wrote

so there's this thing where you can attach a whole bunch of black trashbags together with the last one fully intact so its this really long capped tube, set it up outside on a windless sunny day, inflate with a fan, you got a ^(megga) baloon! I wonder if one could be made long enough that you could fly just like those baby spiders...

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last_air_nomad OP t1_jcemb8x wrote

I mean at some point aren’t you just describing a hot air balloon? So I would say yes!

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gaptoothedneckbeard t1_jcntiak wrote

anyone spider can make silk, not any human can get an air balloon but many can afford to buy trash bags, Ive looked into it, those fuckers are real expensive just getting a lighter than air license..... its like they don't want random people flying

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Lileowastaken t1_jcet7bc wrote

I am painfully aware of this when I went to the beach as a kid only to be bombarded with thousands, if not more, of flying small spiders. They were EVERYWHERE!

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Malthaeus t1_jcfen07 wrote

We were camping in Palo Duro Canyon in north Texas a few autumns ago and witnessed this. There were thousands of silvery strands floating through the evening sky. Very cool.

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Zach202020 t1_jcilgrj wrote

Imagine a fully grown Funnel Web spider aggressively flying towards you.... fangs fully bared and dripping with venom; a wild look in all of its eyes... all focused on you.

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ivycvae t1_jcv2ryx wrote

Many sailors have reported spiders being caught in their ship's sails over 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) from land. They have even been detected in atmospheric data balloons collecting air samples at slightly less than 5 kilometres (16,000 ft) above sea level. Spiderlings are known to survive without food while travelling in air currents of jet streams for 25 days or longer. CUZ I NEEDED MORE REASONS TO GREAT THEM

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