Spiders In Space

[nicomichario]

Our class is going to get these spiders when they come back down from Earth :)

[Diontjuhz]

@nicomichario yea too bad they died because after 8 days there wasn't any food left

[stusvend]

Carly Simon and Itsy Bitsy Spider? WTF?

[ross2694]

What are you doing spider? This is space, and you are a spider, you don't belong here.

[MyNameIsCarruthers]

the music made this video

[kucoru16]

This music is good... FOR ME TO POOP ON!!

[mikedamat]

Should have picked Borris the Spider by the Who

[Pen81191]

It's true what they say: You are never more than 2 meters away from a spider at any given time.

[intermitrj]

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[shakenama]

Thats one messed up web! I think maybe they need gravity as a reference point when making webs?

[TheJokest]

5 arachnophobic raters

[TheJokest]

this music is sick

[anthonyheaney2008]

whats the song and who sings it

[McDeeViouz]

@anthonyheaney2008 ....Itsy Bitsy Spider...and just about any 5 year old.

[mikedamat]

I love how the backup spider escaped and went into the cage too.

[meatisdeliciouse]

I read about this in a book once, cool.

[exussupremebeing]

that spider is dead

[TrueGreatness73]

That song is super duper Gaaa to the ayyyyyy

[williamday247]

How can children from Kindergarden get involved with sending spiders into space?

[parkourdude100]

As far As I am concerned, spiders in space are way cooler than finding solutions to economical or social problems, or problems like global warming. I don't care if humanity is going down the plughole, FUCK YOU, I have fucking space-spiders.

[williamday247]

Hahah

[Slackdragon]

You'll be glad they spent the time and money to fund such research when your grand-kids have to evacuate the planet and actually have the means to travel in space to terraform another planet.

[sazkwatch]

that spiders probley bored as fuck

[marcinpiastadotcom]

"In the 1970s they sent a spider up to Skylab, but didn't send food or water," she said, "then they couldn't tell if the web was built differently because of zero gravity or because the spider was dehydrated and starving."

hahahaha. Or maybe it was just high.

[radziyuu]

what this song?

[Downfacingdog]

Torture!! Gay song too!!

[BritishSAS]

WTF IS WITH THE MUSIC!

[richardhill12]

The earth is in a world of shit at the moment with war and poverty and these jokers are wasting millions on spiders weavin webs in space. ET must be pissin in his pants

[miken115]

You're correct that the earth is in a world of shit. But for exactly this reason this kind of research needs to be done! This might seem a bit pointless, and it is kindof silly, but this is the groundwork for discovering how all kinds of life can be sustained in zgee for long periods of time. The long term solution to many of earth's problems are expansion.

[miken115]

Human population is beginning to expand well past a point of permanent sustainability while our resources and real estate remain essentially static. The only feasible long term option is to spread out, and that means understanding long term effects of zgee on life.

[intermender]

The world has always been in a state like that, but now with science we can get clues to how human minds work which can help because the state of the world is due to humans and observing a spider adapt in space is such a clue.

Besides, i doubt this particular experiment cost millions.

ET will be in agreement, remembering how they stopped their war and poverty by the same strategy, forstalling their species' extinction and so going on to increase their space travel tech.

[burntout815]

y? ???????????????

[burnmetodeath]

Oh yeah. Just groovin' to the smooth jazz soundtrack.

[GizmoMofo7]

LOL at the music.

[rozeboosje]

Poor thing doesn't know what to do without gravity to guide it :-)

[JebusGeist]

Interesting video, would have been nicer had it actually had some information in it, perhaps a comparison between the normal pattern that species of spider weaves a web into under the full effect of Earth's gravity and the pattern it wove in microgravity.

Also the choice of song is atrocious. Seriously, classical compositions are public domain too and kids are not so fragile that a complex composition is going to shatter their minds.

[marceloguiliano]

Great comment! its true. You can see clearly that it is not a normal patern.

[Mightymoose03]

Other interesting points:

- the difference in web pattern of a spider born in space (i.e never exposed to full gravity) and a spider bought to space from earth.

- Also what happens to the spider if it was born in space and brought to earth.

[NoHjLe]

GAY MUSIC

[YeahProveIt]

whats with the terrible music

[ludwigvonsteampole1]

Did the spiders float at any time?

[enhncr]

boring

[pboulding]

Havn't NASA hear of HD video cameras?

[Westwoooooooood]

in the 70's?

[Alarindris]

The song is absolutely hilarious. Good idea trying to turn a silly children's song into a modernized blue note R&B mess. Makes the video kind of creepy IMO.

[phazzer73]

what a crap video, doesnt even end properly!

[kandymews]

why is a scientific document crap? WHy dont you fly to freaking space with spiders and youtube all 100 hours of recording. seriously.

louis ck would hate you.

[blinkmeever]

what a crap comment, doesnt even end properly!

[esztique]

pókocska :)

[cwormakmak]

Ezek azt éneklik, hogy ici-pici szpájder!

They are singing in hungarian! Itsy-pitsy = tiny little in hungarian :D lol

[bluemonday2020]

Go get me a drink spider.

[bluemonday2020]

why isn't he floating?

He is the Steve Fauset of spiders.

[flukshun]

damn son this soundtrack is da bomb!

[hubbabubba5454]

FO SHO!

[chaksa]

fake!!!!

[Nocpem]

Uhm it isn't fake it is on the nasa page O.o

The exact video

[WindyCityRomeo]

yeah its real, it was just on local news in chicago

[sn2727]

they should have made him a tiny spacesuit, they said that because he was in zero gravity he made like a 3D web...pretty cool stuff!!!

[littledooo]

sad twat

[techdeck321]

very lucky spider on space !!!

[conrad4ever]

wow thats amazing that it could survive in space. i hope there is somthing up there for it to eat.

[adamjlynch]

hey genius, it's inside the space station, an experiment on zero-g behavior. did you even read the description?

[flukshun]

you can actually see some other bugs crawling around so it looks like it has some sustenance

[shoa31]

When this spider bites you, you can become a super hero.

[RoadRunnerLaser]

"Hey, Boris... Which way is down ???"

[semiliteratedgod]

who said it was healthy? did you ask him, moron?

[semiliteratedgod]

I hope it'll bite this spiderman motherfucker