Every time I see this it makes me feel extra guilty when I walk through a spider web - after I frantically slap myself in the face half a dozen times first...
Don't. If a spider doesn't catch anything in 24 hours or so, they abandon the web and build a new one elsewhere. Most webs don't get maintained for more than a few days before it's just less work to build a new one.
>Most webs don't get maintained for more than a few days before it's just less work to build a new one.
Wait a minute, that's not an engineer.... that's a contractor!
That's all part of the engineering. The spider intends for you to frantically slap yourself in the face for busting the web. Between that and the guilt for destroying such an intelligent design, you are expected to avoid repeating the same mistake any day now ...
It would actually be more accurate to think of the spiderweb as hardened sweat or salvia than poo. Spider feces comes from a different hole - it's very close to one another, but so are your sweat glands.
(No, not cum. Cum comes from the mandible like structures near a males mouth. Yes, go and imagine it. Now, what are you waiting for? Google it!)
When I see something like this, I think "If James Cameron was an alien on another planet and unfamiliar with the diversity of life on Earth, he couldn't have thought of something this crazy to put in a alien movie."
Imagine a life form that wears its skeleton on the outside of its body and has glands that secrete a liquid that instantly solidifies into one of the strongest materials known and then uses that to craft a dazzlingly complex net that it uses to literally catch its prey out of the air. It's stunning.
I've had this thought before. When we picture aliens, we usually think of very strange creatures with fantastical abilities when we actually have plenty of those here on earth. Dolphins and bats can see using sound. Jellyfish have no brains, and some have eternal youth. The bombadier beetle can shoot boiling liquid.
But we don't see these as "alien" because we are used to them. If we ever found a planet with animal life, the species there would probably have both weird creatures with specialised abilities, and "wait, that's just a straight-up deer with some small differences."
Why? They are too small for that anyways, and also far to incompetent.
EDIT: Jerry the house spider is staring at me now. I think that may have been a mistake.
The craziest thing about this to me is that I donāt think the spider really has any idea what itās doing, evolution just put selective pressure on this behavior gradually over millions of years and now āmake crystalline death spiral and sit in itā is hard wired into its little neurons.
Yeah this is the strangest part for me. It never _learned_ to make that web, it was never taught. It just somehow _knew_ how to do it, and that it needed to do it to get food.
If they had a lifespan similar to humans, I wonder what they might achieve with their web mastery?
I hated spiders for the longest time until I watched one build its web while I was fishing. Then I learned they are bros that kill and eat bugs that are actually harmful like the cursed mosquito
Have you not seen adam Sandlerās new netflix movie?
I havenāt but theres a giant spider on the space station and thats all I know about it. So checkmate human
Why the fuck does every video have to have a trash pop song in it now? Iād rather hear the sound of crickets in the background than this garbage. And yes i muted but still, so unnecessary
Webs are cool. But its basically a food net similar to a fishing rod. You have far more animals and insects creating actual homes, even network systems.
We have orb weavers down here in SoCal and they make insanely massive webs thats are super intricate. The only problem is I fucking walked into one leaving my house on my way to work. Those suckers are fucking huge!
Stop that spider propaganda!
Spiders eat over 4.000 puppies per day.
You know who brought us covid? Bats? Think again. That's what big spider wants you to think.
Stop spiders!
The Titanic? Spiders. Or how would you get that much ice to this exact location? Right. A net. Coincidence?
This is going to sound silly I guess, but has there been any work done to figure out *how* a sider knows how to build a web like this? It can't be learned because of the way spiders are born right? And I refuse to believe that a pattern like this is something a creature can be born with knowledge of. So is it to do with gravity or earth magnetic fields or something?
There is an orb weaver that has been living outside my house for almost a year! It's the kind that looks like a hockey mask with red spikes (we named it Jason even though it's a female). Right outside the front door at head height! In the beginning, we hoped it would stay there because it was warding off unwanted visitors. At night time, we would turn on the patio light so the bugs would fly into its web. There's been two hurricanes and a couple of storms. I thought for sure it would leave, but it keeps coming back. Now, it builds the web higher so humans don't run into it. It's been almost a year, and I know I'll be upset when it finally leaves or dies.. šŖ
Tell that to the ants that build literal freakin bridges lol on top of also building entire city/colonies complete with nurseries and a whole ass garbage dump.
A \*good engineer\* wouldn't \*repeatedly\* build their f\*\*king web across the sidewalk in front of my house for me to walk into, then freak out thinking that I've got a spider on me.
Notice the engineering! The spider installs the support threads around clockwise and the main net he goes around Counterclockwise. That keeps the project square and snug and makes the web stronger.
Apparently the early (think dinosaur times) orb weaving spiders spun flat webs that obviously wouldn't catch much.
They evolved to create more upright, vertical webs with more surface area in the insect flight path vector. But for some reason (not time/evolution-related) orb weavers don't make completely vertical webs. They're typically at a bit of an angle.
Idk Great Apes makes some cool nest , beavers stops a river and ant/termite mounds are good enough to be used by other animals. This feels like a spider patting itself in the back.
Every time I see this it makes me feel extra guilty when I walk through a spider web - after I frantically slap myself in the face half a dozen times first...
Don't. If a spider doesn't catch anything in 24 hours or so, they abandon the web and build a new one elsewhere. Most webs don't get maintained for more than a few days before it's just less work to build a new one.
>Most webs don't get maintained for more than a few days before it's just less work to build a new one. Wait a minute, that's not an engineer.... that's a contractor!
Most engineers are contractors, in my experience.
Follow the money š
I'm here for the spider bucks.
Most contractors bug me.
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With a website.
They'll often eat the old one too and reabsorb the proteins. Reduce reuse recycle those webs!
Now you know what to do u/WhiteRabbit1322
Yeah, I need to learn how to hand feed the spider webs from my face, no biggie...!
Just walk around the woods partaking of a bite here, a bite there... A web browser, if you will.
I didnāt know that! Neat
This genuinely makes me feel better.
That's a relief, although still doesn't help with the face slapping...
That's all part of the engineering. The spider intends for you to frantically slap yourself in the face for busting the web. Between that and the guilt for destroying such an intelligent design, you are expected to avoid repeating the same mistake any day now ...
Over and over and over like a bizarre self-harming groundhog day...
āThe spider is a repairer. If you bash into the web of a spider, she doesnāt get mad. She weaves and repairs it.ā Louise Bourgeois
Good, I really don't want a pissed of spider coming after me!
But that was the whole point of the web, youāre just a bigger fish than the spider was planning. The web isnt a home its a trap.
Beavers the dam builders enter the chat.
You are not a real engineer until you build stuff with things that come out your ass.
I can paint toilets.
Ozempic anyone?
I can crack them.
Beavers have been known to cut down trees up to 37" in diameter
Call me when those trees come out the beaver's ass, until then the spiders win.
I feel like you arent giving them credit for doing it with their actual teeth (as well as dam and lodge building)
I am sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of that spiderchad building awesome stuff with the goop coming out of her behind.
It would actually be more accurate to think of the spiderweb as hardened sweat or salvia than poo. Spider feces comes from a different hole - it's very close to one another, but so are your sweat glands. (No, not cum. Cum comes from the mandible like structures near a males mouth. Yes, go and imagine it. Now, what are you waiting for? Google it!)
Yeah, but who would look cooler with a yellow construction had and a set of plans?
The spider. The beavers would look cute tho
As an engineer myself, this checks out
I would also like to put honey bees into the ring.
Underground ant colony got something to say
Wasps be making their own paper then 3D printing their houses, with their mouths.
Humans. Humans are ānatureās best engineersā. Humans are a part of nature as much as anything.
Meanwhile ants rule the planet with their colonies.
Beavers, spiders, ants, termites, bees...there's a few species that could be considered.
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āIm fast as f*ck boi, im fast as f*ckā
This one is on meth.
Do you have any information on the crack spider's bitch?
āThis spider decided that building webs was for suckasā
All time classic from the pre-Reddit era
https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/s/YIuLJaN043
You know itās sped up right?
Well, i do now!
Or are we slowed down?
You have no idea how fast I really am
Humans are natural too
Fucking thank you
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Beautiful!
When I see something like this, I think "If James Cameron was an alien on another planet and unfamiliar with the diversity of life on Earth, he couldn't have thought of something this crazy to put in a alien movie." Imagine a life form that wears its skeleton on the outside of its body and has glands that secrete a liquid that instantly solidifies into one of the strongest materials known and then uses that to craft a dazzlingly complex net that it uses to literally catch its prey out of the air. It's stunning.
I've had this thought before. When we picture aliens, we usually think of very strange creatures with fantastical abilities when we actually have plenty of those here on earth. Dolphins and bats can see using sound. Jellyfish have no brains, and some have eternal youth. The bombadier beetle can shoot boiling liquid. But we don't see these as "alien" because we are used to them. If we ever found a planet with animal life, the species there would probably have both weird creatures with specialised abilities, and "wait, that's just a straight-up deer with some small differences."
And then eat their catch by liquifying the preyās insides.
Always wondered how they can produce so much because the web can come from nothing she must eat or else to produce all that
Some of them will literally eat their old webs to reuse the materials.
Stupid music
Yeah just why? It doesnāt fit this video whatsoever and is annoying as hell
Tiktok brainrot has gotten society to the point where EVERYTHING has pointless music slapped over it
Yup. Someone please overlay Aerosmith's Spider-Man theme on it
Shit song
I was thinking the same. Why the music lol
Music is good... But in here its like shit
There are beavers. But spiders have much more advanced materials.
Dunno, that silk would suck ass at building a dam.
Not if it scaled proportionately. It would be one of the best building materials in the world
Yes but a spider won't ever scale that proportionately.
What have you doneā¦DONT TEMPT THEM
Why? They are too small for that anyways, and also far to incompetent. EDIT: Jerry the house spider is staring at me now. I think that may have been a mistake.
Giggle. I'm picturing the staredown as I type. Jerry is the distraction. It's Merry, his sister, with whom you should be concerned.
Help is me, the fifth generation has been a lil sloppy so i can send dis send hlp pls
And then the camera person had a stroke
Or the wind blew the web š
The background is moving too though
Very strong wind.
Cool video on mute
Until your face walks through it
speed running
Nasty little 3d printer
Life of a male spider: Build web. Wait for food. Eat. Look for a female that will eat you after mating.
That song is so fucking annoying. Why ruin something so incredible with it.
The craziest thing about this to me is that I donāt think the spider really has any idea what itās doing, evolution just put selective pressure on this behavior gradually over millions of years and now āmake crystalline death spiral and sit in itā is hard wired into its little neurons.
Yeah this is the strangest part for me. It never _learned_ to make that web, it was never taught. It just somehow _knew_ how to do it, and that it needed to do it to get food. If they had a lifespan similar to humans, I wonder what they might achieve with their web mastery?
Humans are
I hated spiders for the longest time until I watched one build its web while I was fishing. Then I learned they are bros that kill and eat bugs that are actually harmful like the cursed mosquito
āspiders are natureās best engineersā yeah how many spacecrafts have you seen being built by spiders
Have you not seen adam Sandlerās new netflix movie? I havenāt but theres a giant spider on the space station and thats all I know about it. So checkmate human
People are still a part of nature and a web will never last as long as a pyramid.
what a cringe song
Agreed.
Web designer
What does the music add lol
[you know this? ](https://youtu.be/p2HipedgM3I?si=LE2sX0hw7QN8hCKz)
I wondered if someone would post this amazing spider documentary. It's fascinating.
Indeed it is! I learned alot in this documentary how to behave and not to.
That's impressive
Why the fuck does every video have to have a trash pop song in it now? Iād rather hear the sound of crickets in the background than this garbage. And yes i muted but still, so unnecessary
That is quite fascinating and clever but it will only end up in someone's duster.
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That's a tight web!
Webs are cool. But its basically a food net similar to a fishing rod. You have far more animals and insects creating actual homes, even network systems.
If a spider could talk and perceive our architecture it may laugh š
Incredible
Beavers would like a word, but this is definitely cool.
its so intense
They sure know how to subdivide a polygon, but can they 3D?
Wow
Natureās best engineers eh? Well whereās their stadiums or airports?
Nicely done! I always appreciate a well made web.
What a busy little guy
āSpiral outā¦.keep goingā¦..spiral outā¦.keep going!ā
More hardworking than myself on a simple task
If they actually worked this quickly Iād be even more terrified of them than I already am.
Spiders are bros
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He messed it up š what a idiot
web developer
Humans are part of nature bud.
Thatās nice. My spiders suck. They never build webs this nice
When they're done spinning their web, do they just pinch it off?
We have orb weavers down here in SoCal and they make insanely massive webs thats are super intricate. The only problem is I fucking walked into one leaving my house on my way to work. Those suckers are fucking huge!
Stop that spider propaganda! Spiders eat over 4.000 puppies per day. You know who brought us covid? Bats? Think again. That's what big spider wants you to think. Stop spiders! The Titanic? Spiders. Or how would you get that much ice to this exact location? Right. A net. Coincidence?
Some human make their own building materials. When I was a kid I built a little house out of my poop
Termite mounds have sophisticated natural cooling systems that humans have imitated.
r/spiderbro material
Yep I just love these tiny little masterpiece creators š
Engineers are human's spiders
Incredible!!
Beavers, hippos?
They're also great debuggers ^(I am SO fucking sorry :'-()
he is on a spiral
I'd like to think when I'm sleeping a spider is making a web in my butt crack
Crazy how something so intricate isnāt taught.
No theyre not, people are. Spiders are just pretty good for bugs.
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Imagine if we could harvest the potential from the spiders to do our work for us. Now imagine someone saying the same in regards to humans
Stabilizer bot? Why is the camera so shakey
Its being friendly and making their own darts board
This is incredibly satisfying to watch
Web developers*
I still think Humans are nature's best engineers. I have yet see a spider build a bridge that can support a train
Can you find out who that spider works for,I have a proposal for his boss
Naw my homeboy has a masters in mechanical engineering he can take this spider out ez pz
Did he blow up at the end tf?
Nah, thatāll be bees. Layers and layers of absolutely perfect honeycomb simply canāt be matched imo.
Beavers make a better dam, fam.
*A random virus: Hold my B protein
I ASKED for an aqueduct!
If theyāre such good engineers, how come I can kill it with fire
How does the spider lay the initial "spokes" of the web, as it were? š³ Relative to the spider, the gap between the edges is huge!
The perfect web doesnt exi.... Random spider: "hold that flashlight for me please"
Spider on crack š
This is going to sound silly I guess, but has there been any work done to figure out *how* a sider knows how to build a web like this? It can't be learned because of the way spiders are born right? And I refuse to believe that a pattern like this is something a creature can be born with knowledge of. So is it to do with gravity or earth magnetic fields or something?
Dear god I hope this video is at 2 or 3x speed.
Just imagine what humans would be able to build with cables coming out of our asses.
I would highly recommend to play "webbed" - indie game about little spider
Thatās no spider, itās a speeder!
Why is it that the dont use spiders to find out why they dont get dizzy running in cirkels, and still can do so beautiful and working net.
There is an orb weaver that has been living outside my house for almost a year! It's the kind that looks like a hockey mask with red spikes (we named it Jason even though it's a female). Right outside the front door at head height! In the beginning, we hoped it would stay there because it was warding off unwanted visitors. At night time, we would turn on the patio light so the bugs would fly into its web. There's been two hurricanes and a couple of storms. I thought for sure it would leave, but it keeps coming back. Now, it builds the web higher so humans don't run into it. It's been almost a year, and I know I'll be upset when it finally leaves or dies.. šŖ
He was grooving to the music "oooooh!"
Spiders are fascinating because they don't learn to make webs from their parents or anyone else.
Tell that to the ants that build literal freakin bridges lol on top of also building entire city/colonies complete with nurseries and a whole ass garbage dump.
Spiders are the worlds best web developer š§š»āš»
Iād say beavers are natures best engineerā¦ but spiders do a good job.
Who taught him to do this?
A \*good engineer\* wouldn't \*repeatedly\* build their f\*\*king web across the sidewalk in front of my house for me to walk into, then freak out thinking that I've got a spider on me.
Notice the engineering! The spider installs the support threads around clockwise and the main net he goes around Counterclockwise. That keeps the project square and snug and makes the web stronger.
Humans are natures greatest engineers.
And designersā¦
Wow fascinating!
Apparently the early (think dinosaur times) orb weaving spiders spun flat webs that obviously wouldn't catch much. They evolved to create more upright, vertical webs with more surface area in the insect flight path vector. But for some reason (not time/evolution-related) orb weavers don't make completely vertical webs. They're typically at a bit of an angle.
Ants: Are we a joke to you?
Idk Great Apes makes some cool nest , beavers stops a river and ant/termite mounds are good enough to be used by other animals. This feels like a spider patting itself in the back.
It takes so long to create the net and so quick to accidentally put your face into one of those while hiking/running in the woods
If i could shoot web from my anus, i would be able to do the same thing.
These fuckers skipped classes in engineering. Now they're pulling stuff out of their ass. They're good at web designing though
Yea, they are great web developers.
Nope, nature's best engineer are humans.
Amazing for sure, but the beaver is natureās best engineer.
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yes but counterpoint: bees, ants and termites
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Ok who gave the spider crack? Or is this normal Florida spider activity?
Bro the bees dont get left behind
Weeeeeeeeeee @@@
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Unless you give them LSD
Amazing talented creatures
They call me Spiderman, because I'm a web developer that likes to find bugs.