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Spiders get their space legs all eight of them
After tangled false start, two weave amazing new webs in zero gravity
By Tariq Malik
Space.com
updated 1:07 p.m. CT, Fri., Nov. 21, 2008

Two plucky spiders on the international space station have bounced back from a tangled false start to weave amazing new webs in zero gravity, astronauts said Friday.

The orb-weaving spiders were transported to the station aboard NASA's shuttle Endeavour earlier this week, but initially wove an aimless concoction in their lab enclosure during their first days in weightlessness. But now they've taken another stab at weightless web construction.

"We noticed the spiders' made a symmetrical web," the space station's current skipper Michael Fincke radioed to Mission Control today. "It looks beautiful."

Fincke said he was amazed at how fast the two eight-legged creatures appear to have adapted to living in space.

The spiders are part of an experiment aimed at sparking interest in science among students on Earth. The arachnids are the same kind of spider as "Charlotte" in the children's book "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White.

Students on Earth will compare the webs of the space station's spiders with those of similar arachnids on Earth for the next few months. They'll also follow the lifecycle of painted lady butterfly larvae, which also are part of the experiment. The University of Colorado at Boulder is overseeing the experiment and provided an ample supply of fruit flies to feed the spiders, and nectar for the butterflies that will eventually emerge.

Along with the experiment, Endeavour astronauts are undertaking a major home renovation mission at the International Space Station. They delivered a second kitchen and bathroom, two new astronaut bedrooms, additional gym equipment, a space food fridge and a water recycling system that turns urine into drinking water.

Mission Control noticed the new spider web early Thursday and gave Fincke and his station crewmates a heads-up to look out for it.

"While y'all have been busy doing your extreme makeover, our spiders have done an extreme makeover and have torn down their first web and have made another one," flight controllers said.

On Friday, flight controllers on Earth said the space station spiders were their new source of space entertainment.

"I thought we were your main entertainment, but I guess we've been taken over by spiders," Fincke said.

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Uh oh, Woo better be careful.  I think it would be hard to run away from spiders in zero gravity. 

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Is there no escape?

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apparently not!!!!

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I have to wonder how much money we are spending on space explorations and experiments like this? I know it is for research, but I have always had a hard time seeing the relevance of research in space and possibly living there. Especially now when the government is beyond broke- is my tax money still going there?hmm

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I'm sure there is some long term strategic asteroid defense system that will be spider web based. giggle.gif

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Wonder if Webguy is in on it!

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Mad Mema wrote:

I'm sure there is some long term strategic asteroid defense system that will be spider web based. giggle.gif


Hahaha!!!  Armageddon remake here we come!!!  Asteroid meets spider web.....spiders are frantically spinning webs while the astronauts are busily splicing them together. Then the unthinkable happens.  One of the astronauts accidently squishes a spider or two; now there aren't enough spiders left in space to continue making webs.  NASA decides to make artificial webs in a hurry.  They blast up another team with the man-made webs.  Space shuttles are strategically placed with all the webs combined into one huge asteroid catcher.  NASA went with cheap Chinese parts for the man-made web; asteroid barrels right on through.  Earth is a goner.  giggle.gif

 



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You forgot the part about the team being led by Ben Affleck since Bruce Willis got killed off in the last asteroid movie. giggle.gif

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If the asteroid catchers were sponsored by Dodge, they'd be Hemi-roids.

Aw, c'mon...I couldn't help myself.


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Good thing Riggs isnt here, that coulda got me kicked off the forum.  At least suspended. biggrin

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Ah come on... kicked off or suspended for a good Dodge/'roids joke? Hadda be done.

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Thats why I like ya M, you are loyal to your friends...even if they are straying towards Dufus town.  biggrin

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That's not Dufus town...that's just flat out funny. Actually, from what I have seen, the Hemi is the only good thing Dodge has going for it right now. Back in the day, the Hemi-cuda was the absolute shizzle. I would not be embarrassed to drive any car or truck sportin' a Hemi today. One day back when I had the shop, my best friend Doug decided to come hang out with me one Saturday. He went on a parts run with me to the local Dodge dealership. Poor guy had to peel me off an '07 Super Bee.

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Was the peelijng accomplished with a high pressure hose or a spatula? biggrin

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Poor guy... he had to grab me by both shoulders and yank real hard while saying, "Come on now, sweetie... let's go. You know that you don't want a yellow car. Let it go. Hey... there's a sale at Macy's... I'll hold your purse..."

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Quite a guy if he was willing to hold your purse! smile

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I'd have to agree... in my warped perspective, it is one of the ways I gauge love. Willing to hold my purse while shopping at Macy's... He'd be perfect if he wasn't happily married already.

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Unless you can convert the family to Mormonism....do you like to share?

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That sort of thing is not for me. Call me selfish...

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I concur.

I heard a comedian say, its hard enough cuddling and making small talk with one woman. 

"What'cha thinkin'"?

In an Al Bundy like voice...."If I wanted you to know what I was thinkin' I'd be talking."

Always makes me chuckle. biggrin

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EXAAAACTLY! Besides... Mrs. Doug does NOT have that kind of sense of humor. She tolerates me because a) she has no choice... I'm the best friend and b) she and I get along well anyway.

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She can relax a little when there is a MR Mema.



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As long as she is good to him, she has no worries. They have a good life.

If there is new Mr. Mema, she would be totally thrilled.

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As would you biggrin

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Says you! nana.gif

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I say alot of things, especially when I have been drinking...now where did I leave that glass of chocolate milk? nana.gif

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Hitting the hard stuff, are ya? Gotta watch out for that Nestle's Quik. That rabbit is tricky!

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