[QUOTE=Maloof?;37967573]Would they have retained their wall-crawling abilities if their mass was that huge?
I mean that's what gets me about spiders; with a dog you know where it is, or at least you have a narrow range of possible locations limited to horizontal surfaces. And a dog won't sneak up on you.
Spiders can be ANYFUCKINGWHERE and they're flippin SILENT. They just creep down on their strings and tickle your ears and damnjustfuckoffspiders[/QUOTE]
They wrap you in a cocoon and suck your blood. And they eat their own children and their mates. Everything about spiders are horrible.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;37967573]Would they have retained their wall-crawling abilities if their mass was that huge?
I mean that's what gets me about spiders; with a dog you know where it is, or at least you have a narrow range of possible locations limited to horizontal surfaces. And a dog won't sneak up on you.
Spiders can be ANYFUCKINGWHERE and they're flippin SILENT. They just creep down on their strings and tickle your ears and damnjustfuckoffspiders[/QUOTE]
Not all spiders hunt by casting big webs and sitting there waiting for someone to fly into them.
Some burrow and jump out of trapdoors to snatch at anything that was passing by. I'm sure ancient giant spiders had other ways to hunt, too.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37967819]Not all spiders hunt by casting big webs and sitting there waiting for someone to fly into them.
Some burrow and jump out of trapdoors to snatch at anything that was passing by. I'm sure ancient giant spiders had other ways to hunt, too.[/QUOTE]
Some don't even put that much effort into it, and just walk around until they find something to pounce on.
[QUOTE=nox;37967467]IIRC the earth was more oxygen rich in prehistoric times.[/QUOTE]
Okay then, it grows to epic proportions because of less atmospheric pressure due to the lack of oxygen, work with me here.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37967549]It was, and spiders back then grew to almost as large as a small dog.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37967819]Some burrow and jump out of trapdoors to snatch at anything that was passing by. I'm sure ancient giant spiders had other ways to hunt, too.[/QUOTE]
Oh, please. Go on.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;37967573]Would they have retained their wall-crawling abilities if their mass was that huge?
I mean that's what gets me about spiders; with a dog you know where it is, or at least you have a narrow range of possible locations limited to horizontal surfaces. And a dog won't sneak up on you.
Spiders can be ANYFUCKINGWHERE and they're flippin SILENT. They just creep down on their strings and tickle your ears and damnjustfuckoffspiders[/QUOTE]
While working for security some small black spider scurried at my shoe. I went to scare him off so I tapped my shoe at him, and the little ballsy fucker LEAPT ONTO ME. I never found out where he went. He's probably still hiding in my shoe, watching me.
[QUOTE=Raidyr;37967992]Oh, please. Go on.[/QUOTE]
Trapdoor spider:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_spider[/url]
On large spiders:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/largest-spider-fossil-ever_n_854723.html[/url]
[img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/271294/SPIDER-FOSSIL.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=NuclearJesus;37967388]Millions of years later, an eccentric billionaire will hire a team of scientists to extract the DNA, and clone it for his tourist park of overrated ancient technology.
Hold on to your butts.[/QUOTE]
And in the same future, a conspiracy nutjob with a crazy haircut talks about ancient mobile phone astronaut robots from space.
But the spider never got to eat :(
[QUOTE=BenJammin';37967144]100 million years...fucking baffling. It's almost incomprehensible how long ago this happened yet the moment in time was captured and kept for the EXTREME distant future. I wonder if our generation will ever leave a mark for something else to find it 100 fucking million years later.[/QUOTE]
Yes, our nuclear waste. Easily.
[QUOTE=Killuah;37968999]Yes, our nuclear waste. Easily.[/QUOTE]
I'd imagine most of whatever radioactive waste we dump would have decayed in 100 million years time
I'd be more concerned about the destruction of species that will never progress due to extinction caused through destruction of habitat and over-hunting on our part
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37967549]It was, and spiders back then grew to almost as large as a small dog.
I learned that shit on the Discover Channel.[/QUOTE]
They grew up to around eight feet back then, but the body itself was only about a foot long. However, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that there are still spiders (okay, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater"]one kind of bird-eating spider[/URL]) that's over a foot long, and it isn't all leg unlike its prehistoric cousins.
[QUOTE=Cone;37969113]They grew up to around eight feet back then, but the body itself was only about a foot long. However, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that there are still spiders (okay, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater"]one kind of bird-eating spider[/URL]) [B]that's over a foot long, and it isn't all leg unlike its prehistoric cousins.[/B][/QUOTE]
And people say there is a god.
[QUOTE=Cone;37969113]They grew up to around eight feet back then, but the body itself was only about a foot long. However, I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that there are still spiders (okay, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater"]one kind of bird-eating spider[/URL]) that's over a foot long, and it isn't all leg unlike its prehistoric cousins.[/QUOTE]
I was just reading the tarantula page; turns out there are no known types of tarantulas with bites that can directly cause death to humans! One may have an allergic reaction to some of the proteins contained within the bites (likely they'll also have foods that they can't eat) but the venom itself isn't that dangerous.
I would still kick that motherfucker with all my mortal might if it was scurrying towards me though
[QUOTE=Maloof?;37969016]I'd imagine most of whatever radioactive waste we dump would have decayed in 100 million years time
I'd be more concerned about the destruction of species that will never progress due to extinction caused through destruction of habitat and over-hunting on our part[/QUOTE]
The traces of Uranium isotopes will be quite unique.
Other unique stuff that stays will be glas and porcelain as long as it is burried somewhere, the stuff we left on the moon, a lot of waste we dumped into our oceans since pretty much no oxygen goes down there except for some minor reactions with the water but I don't know about that, platinum stuff, used wherever and well I don't know what else but much stuff is also frozen in ice from our polar expeditions.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37968089]Trapdoor spider:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_spider[/url]
On large spiders:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/largest-spider-fossil-ever_n_854723.html[/url]
[img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/271294/SPIDER-FOSSIL.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
if a time machine ever gets invented im not going there fuck that shit
[QUOTE]Its large and probably terrified eyes now stare for eternity at its attacker, moving in for the kill.[/QUOTE]
they will be forever together... in death.
[QUOTE=MegaChalupa;37969183]And people say there is a god.[/QUOTE]
That [I]is[/I] a god.
-everything about this thread-
sleeping with one eye open tonight.
welding all my windows shut as well.
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37968089]
[img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/271294/SPIDER-FOSSIL.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
jesus christ fucking NOPE
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;37968089]Trapdoor spider:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trapdoor_spider[/url]
On large spiders:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/28/largest-spider-fossil-ever_n_854723.html[/url]
[img]http://i.huffpost.com/gen/271294/SPIDER-FOSSIL.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
Um, that image is not nearly close to scale. That spider was only ~1 inch wide with a leg span of ~2.5 inches...
It'd still be cool to go bad 100 million years to see what it all looked like. Of course I would be wearing a protective suit that covers every inch of my body from swarms of fucking insects but still...
[QUOTE=geel9;37976257]Um, that image is not nearly close to scale. That spider was only ~1 inch wide with a leg span of ~2.5 inches...[/QUOTE]
I know. But the article talks about how big they could get.
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