Your Nightmares Are No Longer the Only Place Where Spiders Can Fly
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“Fly” is a bit of a relative term here – it’s used in the same context as in “flying squirrel,” in that they can glide from tree to tree. But I’m sure that just makes you feel so much better.
The twisted part of the story, though, is how scientists confirmed their theory about the airborne arachnids.
The researchers use a simple test: They drop creatures from a great height.
Hold the phone – dropping things off of trees to see if they fly is a real research test? Do I even want to know how we came to the conclusion that pigs can’t fly?
The real implications here are for future iterations of Spider-Man, who can now conserve web fluid much more easily.
h/t James Wilson and Gallen Dugall
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist