Don’t worry, atmospheric oxygen is too low to make gigantic spiders possible.
If giant spiders existed, I could at least make a living the same way I accumulate gold in a fantasy RPG. 🤷♂️
Only if you went through the trial of the grasses. Those things would be crazy fast
but warming is helping certain organisms of the sea to bloom. Jellyfish are actually increasing despite the increase in temperature and pollution.
Oh great, so the giant spiders will have oxygen tanks?
Only if we give them supplemental oxygen as they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.
they lack the ability to manufacture and have little to no engineering education.
…so far.
If you are so inspired, you can follow Nightvale’s example and begin an after-school volunteer ‘Teach a Spider to Read, Stop the Madness’ campaign.
Thank you! I have been “volunteering” there - two days each week - since the City Council thoughtfully invited me to.
We should be fine so long as we don’t let the woke liberal leftists communists socialist colleges let spiders in under DEI with funding from Soros.
Cats can get into houses just fine.
Also, having eight legs would make large spiders behave like giant hands, so opening windows and doors might be an easy task for them. Especially if multiple spiders cooperate…nah nope thats like being afraid a lion will hide itself under your toilet lid to jump you when you go piss in the middle of the night.
if spiders were big we would find it easier (or necessary) to keep them under control.
Why aren’t the activists leading with this?!
It’s like they’re not even trying to bring others on board!
Yes! I want bigger spiders, too. How can I help?
Wait…I might have lost the logic thread, on this one…
YES. I HAVE BEEN NOTICING.
I’ve noticed the opposite problem: spiders are disappearing.
Last summer my balcony was covered them. This year… well if they’re around, they’re hiding pretty damn well. I can’t find a single web this time around.
I’ve found 2 big ones this last week - one in the bath, and one under the electrics
yes yes yes but how do we make them smarter, and faster?
You’ll need Kern’s nanovirus for that; the virus will facilitate the genetic transfer of knowledge and “Understanding” from one generation to the next.
Anybody want this computer made of bees? It stinks and is as loud as a jet engine, but it can do 5 Megaflops a second. There might also be a woman in there undergoing some kind of mental breakdown. Just ignore that.
We need to give them wings first
Counterargument: the big ones are much easier to notice and squash. It’s the tiny fucker that just slipped under the collar of your shirt without alerting you that you need to worry about.
I’m sure that itch you just felt was all in your head.
~Don’t kill spider friends please~
I let good spiders roam around my house and kill the annoying blood-sucking bzzzs and other nuisances I don’t live in Australia though
I always just catch them with a box and let them out outside. Our family always did. I’m always stunned at people killing them.
looking at Huntsman Spiders 🕷️
You don’t know what you’re talking about mate
I’m with you on this. But I wonder at what point you draw the line. A spider the size of a watch? A spider the size of a car? At what point do we prefer the smaller spider?
I’ve read dinner plate is the metric when shoes no longer work and so that’s the standard
I heard bananas. Maybe banana-sized leg is where we draw the line?
With increased size comes a reduction in mobility, increased difficulty in reproduction and maintenance of life. And an increased perception in them being a threat.
A car sized spider would be pretty much immobile, and by that size, a tactical target that would be fairly easy to hunt to extinction.
The bigger the better.
Yeah but not in video game or movie physics, which I assume is what we are talking about in this theoretical scenario.
At what point? At all the fucking points, what the fuck is wrong with you people in this thread?
Aw hell yeah. I love me some spoders
I want a pet wolf spider the size of a cat
Carboniferous 2.0. Coming soon to a ecological disaster near you!
Now THIS is material for nightmares.
How dare you swear in my Christian household! We don’t say the dreaded “s” word in this house!
/S
Jokes aside, I wish we could completely get rid of all bugs and insects without harming the planet, especially spiders.
Horrible take. Bugs are cool.
Agree to disagree. I hate them. Too creepy for me.
Bugs are more essential to a healthy environment than humans ever will be
