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I love that the bear also uses a cup and napkin ๐
Alien invasion!
People of Earth, your attention, please. As you will no doubt be aware, the plans for development of the outlying regions of the Galaxy require the building of a hyperspatial express route through your star system. And regrettably, your planet is one of those scheduled for demolition.
The process will take slightly less than two of your Earth minutes. Thank you.
Jumping spiders are always welcome in my home.
Obligatory "Read Children Of Time if you love jumping spiders" comment
Children Of Time is not so wrong, jumping spiders naturally in their current size cant evolve to an complex tecnologic society, but it's true that they have an astounding intelligence for an so minuscule beeing, capable to planning different strategies to catch their prey, a good sight and perfect aware of an 3D environment. They know exactly what they are doing. Called also cats with 8 legs.
I mean, in CoT they are infected with the Uplift virus, so they will evolve the intelligence and size to get to a complex society
Yes, but the amount of neurons is limited in beeings with less than 5mm, to envolve they must turning also somewhat bigger.
The reason why Asimov wrote a second novel after Fantastic Voyage, which was an work based on the movie, but Asimov are not satisfied about it as scientific, because reducing the size of the people to molecular level, there are impossible that they are capable even to think more than a molecule, so he wrote a second part and in this the bodies are not reduced, but partially traslated to an parrallel dimension, so that the remaining part were small enough to be inyected in the body of the pacient.
The spiders grow larger. By the end of the first book they are about human chest size
I would have thought a spider was impossible to pet had I not seen this. Chill little fella.
Jumping spiders are very nice pets, a lot of people have it as such. They are smart enough to recognise their owner and even to learn tricks.
I love jumping spiders and always keep them in my home when I see them but for my neurospicy brain, that video is a fucking nightmare to watch with those subtitles and I hate it I hate it I hate it aaaaaa
You have to jump this high to be let inside
That's really cute until you apply the "alive in wrong space at wrong time" philosophy to cockroaches and termites. Clean your house and keep the local wildlife outside.
Spiders eat those things. That guy up there called those eating meat hypocrites but they're a little off missing this fact.
People who save spiders and eat meat do it because they're not hypocrites. They respect their own kind.
Except moskito and fly. And flies that suck blood get hunted.
It says not bothering anyone.
After a shower a giant crab spider dropped out of my towel, instinctually I knew only one of us would leave that bathroom alive.
But little jumping spiders are my buddies
Huntsman spiders are a special case. I don't think I would do well with a tarantula in my bathroom while I'm naked either.
Spiders are more like ICE, they invade your home
(I don't mind if they squat in the basement tho)
Spiders are friends. I will terminate any centipedes found inside my house, though. The bastardly kind, not the house centipedes.
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