A sheet of spider silk nearly half a mile long covers a field near Memphis(news.nationalgeographic.com)

24 pointsby edwardvor 11 Jahren9 comments

news.nationalgeographic.com

A sheet of spider silk nearly half a mile long covers a field near Memphis

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/11/151124-spiders-webs-tennessee-nation-science-animals/

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spiders are amazing creatures. Just read the article on the BBC on one where is spun a web across a river.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151126-the-worlds-biggest-s...

masklinnvor 11 Jahren

There's also the 2010 article "An Immense Concentration of Orb-Weaving Spiders With Communal Webbing in a Man-Made Structural Habitat"[0] documenting a 4 acre web inside the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant housing an estimated (lowball) 107 million spiders.

[0] PDF http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/2010/Orb-weaving-spiders.pdf

ghubbardvor 11 Jahren

The article headline is: "Millions of Baby Spiders Create Giant Silken Blanket"

tldr; Baby spiders do what they do. Spiderwebs enuse.

violentvinylvor 11 Jahren

Thank you, the one question I had (Was it a single spider?) was answered by the original headline.

ghubbardvor 11 Jahren

The question I had, "Why would someone want to make a half mile long sheet of spider silk and put it in a field outside Memphis?" is also answered by the original headline.

verytrivialvor 11 Jahren

"news.nationalgeographic.com needs to uniquely identify your device to play premium content..."

It begins.

001skyvor 11 Jahren

That was quick

National Geographic gives Fox control of media assets in $725 million deal

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geog...

reustlevor 11 Jahren

I didn't see anything when viewing on chrome on desktop (with uBlock). What information was it requesting? Some new HTML / JS hook?

hirsinvor 11 Jahren

It's Chrome for Android only - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4410268?p=mobile_pr...

I'm assuming it's a nonstandard thing they're experimenting with that provides a combination of device ID and browser ID (assuming Chrome on Android is similar to it on desktop, where each install is branded with a number).