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World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness (newatlas.com)

submitted 3 months ago by resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago

Spiders Georg is absolutely beside himself

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 months ago

Lolth smiles upon thee.

[–] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 months ago

Is this the dark web I keep hearing about?

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 17 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

Not since the cotillion last June.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago

Not yet!!

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Big_Boss_77@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 3 months ago

You summed up Tik Tok perfectly, yes.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

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

[–] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 months ago

Not gonna lie, I thought this was going in a different direction. Like, the hubris, it could have reacted by swarming him like he was food to a hungry, sentient blob of nightmares.

[–] Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Abandon, all hope.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

No way. This is cool.

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

[–] scott@lem.free.as 6 points 3 months ago

Shelob!

[–] Timecircleline@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Good for them, big mood.