sciencedaily.com— "The extraordinary properties of spider's thread are like a blessing for researchers working on polymers. However, the amazing twisting properties it displays are still not very well understood."
Apr 11, 2006View in Crawl 4
I agree. they always appeared to spin back when I was a bachelor.now that I'm married my house is a lot cleaner, so i don't run accross all the insects, spiders, wildlife and such, like i used to.
Doesn't seem too miraculous. If you lower something on a thickish wound steel cable it doesn't spin because of its robustness. If you scale everything down you get sort of the same proportions, especially if you take into account that a spider is very light, probably lighter than a human scaled down to that size. What's the big deal here, other than spider webs are strong, which we already know?
newevilmindApr 11, 2006
I agree. they always appeared to spin back when I was a bachelor.now that I'm married my house is a lot cleaner, so i don't run accross all the insects, spiders, wildlife and such, like i used to.
jojogame1Apr 11, 2006
That spider in the pic was scary. Spiders creep me out, I saw a spider rotate when it was hanging on the web.
dipswitchApr 11, 2006
drilldown, mdew, it's still foogly and has a horizontal scrollbar
boredofthesaneApr 11, 2006
Doesn't seem too miraculous. If you lower something on a thickish wound steel cable it doesn't spin because of its robustness. If you scale everything down you get sort of the same proportions, especially if you take into account that a spider is very light, probably lighter than a human scaled down to that size. What's the big deal here, other than spider webs are strong, which we already know?
apache2Apr 11, 2006
don't capitalize: "A" ..... thank you