Spiders are getting bigger - Global warming?

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Shouldn't they only be getting bigger as the percent oxygen in the atmosphere increases?

Ah, sweet, sweet oxygen.

 

[n00beffect]

NOO! Keep em the hell away from me man :X:X:X:X stupid global warming.. who the heck does this damn research anyway ? What kinda a freak would prefer touching these things anyway,seriously?? Well good thing these bitches eat each other,otherwise i'd have to pull out the big guns ! (my grandma's massive shoes,man)

 

[annoyinglizardvoice]

Most of the city-folk-with-4x4 morons I've met have also been aracnophobic, so it sounds like poetic justice to me.

I love spiders, the keep flies out of my way.

 

[Lynx]

The question is, are they any harder to kill?

Nope. *SLAM*

 

[Standby]

What a delightfully pointless study.

 

[cartzo]

brilliant! i love spiders, and my sisters terrified of them.

also apparrently tarantulas make great pets as they are slow lazy creatures and they can live for up to 30 years.

[EDIT] global warming is a natural phenomana that is essential to life on earth, it is only being accellerated by human activity, the only thing that is actually causing any damage is pollution which is a problem that is easily solved.

 

[lwm3398]

Global warming? You mean that fake thing that doesn't exist, that thing based on nonsense coming from the same people who say Mars is a big space-cherry and the moon is made of cheese?

Oh, and of course, it causes spiders to get big. Yeah, heat is like spider-steroids.

No. Mini ice-age coming up. Prepare the firewood.

 

[teisjm]

Next time someones "thing" gets bigger in an inapropriate place, say the locker room, or when visiting to grandma, they can just blame global warming

 

[londelen]

And this thread, class, was the beginning of our great national sport of Giant Spider Gladiator Arena. This will be on the test next week, so study up!

 

[goldenjester]

It'll just make them easier to shoot now. Bigger target, you know? What do you think, Horatio?

"I think this is an example..."
*sunglasses*
"...of the tangled webs we weave"
"YEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

 

[BlackKraken]

Haha! The mutagenic agent I released into the atmosphere is finally taking effect!

 

[Abedeus]

I think this is another reason to start learning Kendo.

 

[Azraellod]

Wow. The amount of people who pointlessly kill spiders here is astonishing. I hope you all get crushed horribly someday.

And don't worry. Spiders aren't going to get much bigger. Back in the Carboniferous era, the spiders grew to about the size of cats, but they all died out when the Earth's oxygen level decreased. I wouldn't think it's likely to reach that level again, over 1/3 oxygen is much much higher then we have today.

Just leave it. Spiders increasing in size is not a threat, and it never will be.

 

[thelastwitness]

It is a threat! To our sanity. As if life wasn't filled with enough unremitting horror, existential dread, and that creeping sense that somewhere along the line we've been duped, now we have to deal with bigger goddamn spiders too. Man, every time I think that the world has progressed to the absolutely worst possible confluence of Awful Sh*t, it finds a new way to prove me terrifyingly wrong.

Bigger spiders. Wow! I did not see that sh*t coming.

 

[timmytom1]

Oh come on ,it`s boud to be radiation ,because the movies say so,anyway best start preparing the guns for the 80foot tall tarantula attack

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Erm no? Global warming would in fact DECREASE spider size. The reason arachnids and other chitinous creatures that lack lungs were so large before was because their envionment was oxygen rich. Breathing through holes in their skin that run near to cells to allow respiration means they need a very large inside surface area in these holes in ratio with their mass, these tunnels in their chitin need to run ALL over their body. With current oxygen levels any insect as large as they used to be would die of asphyxiation. It wouldnt get enough oxygen to all the parts of its body using these inneficient tubes. The idea of global warming is that CO2 levels are rising yes? With less oxygen replaced by CO2 the spiders size would be smaller, as large spiders would begin to find it hard to breathe thus making natural selection come into play and only letting smaller spiders survive.

 

[Phyroxis]

Wolf Spiders are getting bigger.

Excellent, Hamsters love eating Wolf Spiders (no really). Let's unleash an army of Hamsters into our countries, the aggresive little buggers will rapidly kill off all the other rodent species, eat the spiders and it will all be irrepressably cute!

I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly...