Spiders are getting bigger - Global warming?

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sethwood

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There have been spiders that run 35 MPH, eat camels, and weigh like 14 pounds for thousands of years. You jut don't hear about them. They live in the Middle East and they will haunt my dreams for the rest of my life.
 

grimsprice

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schubi said:
300 million years ago, during a long period of warm global temperatures some species of spider grew over 3 feet long and 2 feet tall (their abdomens were much larger in relation to their limbs).
During the same period some early scorpions were over 6 feet long.
Yeah, what you forgot to mention was back then oxygen levels were many times what they are now, allowing book lungs to take in enough oxygen to fuel their bodies. Oxygen levels is the limiting factor on insect size.
 

Baby Eater

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fix-the-spade said:
somekindarobot said:
You like crabs, don't you? Think before you answer, as a citizen of the state of Maryland I am legally obligated to bludgeon to death all those who answer "no."
They're called spiders, they look like spiders, they behave like spiders, to my fears they are spiders.

Crabs on the other hand, are just crabs, they look, move and behave like crabs rather than spiders. They aren't particularly scary, except robber crabs and (surprise surprise) spider crabs, but mainly because they're frickin' huge and really quite intimidating.
crabs are cute lil things. big eyes,lil body,and a weird walk
never search for coconut crabs though O_O

i too am arachnaphobic and that story is not as scary as camel spiders (i fucking dare you to google)
 

Razorback0z

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The complete inability of the human phsyce to deal with the timescales involved in notions like species change and climate variation, is why we have religion and so called global warming.

The easy answer will always find preference over the correct answer, superstition will always usurp reason.
 

BonsaiK

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Bigger doesn't mean deadlier, at least the big ones are easy to identify. It's the small ones you've got to really watch. And the pregnant ones. I had a spider have babies on my computer room once, that was... interesting. Imagine fifty baby spiders in your house, all slowly growing, day by day, and you have no idea where they are... yet... oh and this is in Australia where the spiders are crazily deadly and bite into anything, not Greenland where they just go ice-skating or some shit.
 

Azraellod

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Horny Ico said:
Can I help it if this arguement has been going on past my bedtime?

Hey now, it was just a joke! I didn't really mean you're a hypocritical terrorist who abducts perfectly happy animals just to kill them because you can't afford the food! Why must you take everything so seriously?

Well if you aprove of killing the especially dangerous ones, I fail to see our disagreements, with the obvious exception of size threshold. I find it very easy to hold back my urge to kill spiders when I know they aren't dangerous. About a month ago, my mailwoman was shocked to see that I tried to pick up a spider from my front porch (it was so small that it slipped from between my fingers) and asked, "You play with spiders?!"; and I said, "Only the really small ones." The whole truth is that I was only interested because I didn't recognize it. It seemed to have grey hair and the same poportions of a tarantula.
I take nearly everything quite seriously. It's a habit of mine.

I don't necessarily approve of the killing of dangerous spiders, because I have a lot of problems with defining what makes them dangerous. For example, a poisonous spider that can kill a human won't necessarily be dangerous. It's the context of the spider.

The spiders you had living in your garage were a realistic threat because they lived in close proximity to you, couldn't be moved as they would presumably just return, and had a realistic chance of killing you in their self defense. I will happily accept you killing them.

However, if you encounter a spider that can theoretically kill you, but can easily be moved away somehow, then simply picking it up in a glass and removing it from the house seems a simple solution.

I wasn't necessarily objecting to killing spiders. What I was objecting to were people who see a spider and instantly think Kill It. If you kill spiders that realistically threaten you, fine, I have little objection to that unless there is a way to avoid killing it that you just ignore.
 

KiLl_RoY

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canadamus_prime said:
KiLl_RoY said:
canadamus_prime said:
Uh oh, we'd better prepare for the invasion of the EIGHT LEGGED FREAKS!!!
Hell yeah!

What`s so bad about a huge spiders attack? it must be fun.
Of course, us Canadians just have to wait till winter and the spiders will freeze to death.
Sucks to be you. ^^