Spider Missing After Trip To Space Station 507
Garabito writes "A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program was lost. Two arachnids were sent in order to know if spiders can survive and make webs in space, but now only one spider can be seen in the container. NASA isn't sure where the other spider could have gone. I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords."
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Let me be the first to say (Score:5, Funny)
Damn you summary for stealing our memes!
Isn't there extra radiation in space? (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm. (Score:3, Funny)
Missing spider (Score:5, Funny)
Lost.
That's what the other spider claims, anyway. In other news, that spider just submitted a replacement for ReiserFS.
I'll be the first to say it (Score:2, Funny)
*snicker**snort*
spiders on a spaceship! (Score:5, Funny)
First Post From Space (Score:5, Funny)
World Wide Web 3.0 (Score:2, Funny)
In a late braking story, Joe the Spider has just begun the first satellite-to-satellite web hookup. Gone are the days of brick-and-mortar, WWW 3.0 is silk.
Go Mighty Joe.
That is why.... (Score:5, Funny)
Origin Story? (Score:5, Funny)
Boy Bitten by Radioactive Spider Dies of Leukemia [ryanbaker.org] (Sorry, couldn't source the original)...
makes (Score:5, Funny)
The arachnid was sent in order to know if spiders can survive and makes webs in space...
makes? I makes teh webs and yous gives mes teh bugs. Otherwise, I eats other spiders.
Missing? (Score:5, Funny)
If right now, I were an astronaut wearing a spacesuit, I guess I'd be feeling kind of itchy all over...
Re:Missing spider (Score:5, Funny)
too soon
Re:First Post From Space (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds to me like Sabotage (Score:5, Funny)
Step 2: "Lose" spider in space
Step 3: ????
Step 4: Space domination
Robots.txt (Score:4, Funny)
Only one spider could read.
Yo.... (Score:5, Funny)
...check the lid.
No Ziggy Stardust jokes! (Score:4, Funny)
not missing (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
That's why Heidi let the bag go yesterday. I know my wife runs out of the room screaming when she sees a spider.
Why?... (Score:5, Funny)
Why would you do that? Why would you put a classic reply in your summary of the article and rob some poster of a 5 Funny rating? You're just mean.
Enough is Enough! (Score:5, Funny)
I have had it with these motherf***ing spiders on this motherf***ing space station!
(Sorry, couldn't resist...)
Re:Isn't there extra radiation in space? (Score:5, Funny)
Spider one can spin elastic! Two can hide from sight! Spiderone got the crap end of the deal, so it murdered the other one in the night! Here come to the two! The fantastic two!
Did they check... (Score:5, Funny)
Did they check the tool bag? Oh, wait...
Re:Missing spider (Score:3, Funny)
Woosh. That was the sound of the reference going right over your head :P
A few centuries from now... (Score:5, Funny)
...an alien probe named S'pdr will encounter the USS Enterprise.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Found it! [finlosreviews.com]
Dumb spiders (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's simple! (Score:5, Funny)
Nah, its off filming the sequel to Snakes on a Plane... Spiders on the Shuttle
GPS (Score:2, Funny)
The missing spider had GPS, but was unfortunately outside* the service range.
*above
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Spiders on drugs is just as interesting. (Video) [youtube.com] (Pictures) [trinity.edu]
Think about that before your next Jolt Cola.
Re:That is why.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
They quoted a NASA official as saying that just because we can't see it doesn't mean it isn't in the box, we haven't opened the box to verify it.
Schrödinger's spider?
Re:Let me be the first to say (Score:3, Funny)
moola (Score:5, Funny)
A spider that had been sent to the International Space Station for a school science program
And they say we don't spend enough on education.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Because for every spider we send to space, that's one less left here on earth trying to eat us.
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
I guess the big question at this point is exactly what species of spider were these two.
Especially, if it happened to be a non-cannibalistic species.
That would suggest that outer space turns spiders into cannibals.
Why haven't we seen this effect on humans yet?
Maybe it takes a while for those wacky cosmic-cannibal-rays to accumulate, and humans have just not been up in outer space long enough?
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
The only reason that THC is illegal and caffeine is legal is because Big Caffeine is so powerful. Fuckin' JFK killed in Dallas, same place Starbucks started. Makes you think, don't it?
Don't bogart that thing, man. Pass it over here.
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
Dammmit, you beat me to it. And with my nick, I should have got to it first. Or maybe not. It's uncertain.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
Why haven't we seen this effect on humans yet?
I was going to make a joke about how we had, and the Columbia disaster was actually a deliberate destruction so the public wouldn't realize NASA's cannibalism problem when only half the crew came back. But then I thought "Naw, too soon." But then I thought "Aw, what the hell."
Re:makes (Score:5, Funny)
I'm in ur ear, layin mah eggz.....
Re:That is why.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
STATUS CHECK 11/20/08 00:00 UTC: EARTH PRESENT
STATUS CHECK 11/21/08 00:00 UTC: EARTH MISSING, PLEASE VERIFY
STATUS CHECK 11/22/08 00:00 UTC: EARTH PRESENT
STATUS CHECK 11/22/08 16:05 UTC: ION CANNON COORDINATES RECIEVED. FIRING
STATUS CHECK 11/23/08 00:00 UTC: EARTH PRESENT
Cable TV Viewers Take Notice (Score:3, Funny)
This has "Sci Fi Channel Original" (Movie) written all over it.
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
Those are traditionally referred to as 'nightmares'.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Well I don't know I
Heard it started
Out
Of a
Small town just outside Dallas
However I might be wrong.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Shuttle Flight: $500 million
Spider habitat: $9
Losing half of test subjects: Priceless
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
Images like that remind me of my ex-wife.
Obvious conclusion.... (Score:5, Funny)
People, remember, this is s rigorous scientific experiment based on literally billions of dollars worth of equipment.
If you look at this scientifically, the obvious conclusion is that spiders in space have a 50% chance of spontaneously developing teleportation powers. This vital experiment should put to rest all the loonies who claim space can't do that to people, we have hard proof now.
The more pressing question is why didn't NASA talk about the gecko heat vision experiments in the next chamber over?
-Charlie
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Explanation (Score:5, Funny)
The spider left after it found a robots.txt file.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:4, Funny)
meta
Re:Where oh where? (Score:3, Funny)
H ow c a n the people k n ow s o little about ho w S t arbucks j oined the CIA, the Ma f ia, and the K nights Templar to take out JFK?
But JFK shot first...
Re:Spiders in space... (Score:5, Funny)
I would imagine that it simultaneously suffer death from a number of factors-
-asphyxiation. Spiders don't last long without oxygen; if they can drown easily, I'd imagine they need a constant supply of oxygen
-cook in the sun
-freeze solid in the shade
-crushed by passing toolbag
-overwhelming homesickness
-b
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
I still remember driving back in to town after a week of camping and seeing all the flags at half staff, leaving a lurching feeling in the pit of my stomach. Had we been attacked? Had our president been assassinated? I asked the people I came across on the street to find out what tragedy had befallen our country, but no one knew. I saw a news stand and went to it. It was there I saw the first images of the exploding ball of flame, ending the lives of Americans who sought to extend the boundaries that has always limited men. It was a day I'll never forget.
You insensitive clod.
Re:Where oh where? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Newsflash (Score:2, Funny)
Aha! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Where oh where? (Score:5, Funny)
Actually youve probably eaten more spiders than spiders have eaten you.
so far
Re:Not necessarily (Score:5, Funny)
You're right, that was very insensitive of me. I'm sorry if I offended you. Now to smooth things over with the healing power of laughter, here are some cannibal astronaut jokes.
Q: What do you call an astronaut that leaves the ship without a space suit?
A: Frozen dinner.
Q: Why was the astronaut afraid to go back in the shuttle when she lost her tool bag?
A: She didn't want to get chewed out.
Q: Why were the astronauts upset when NASA invented a red wine equivalent of Tang?
A: Because everyone knows red wines don't go with white meat.
Ah, that was cathartic. I feel much better. You?
Re:Not necessarily (Score:3, Funny)
In fact one doesn't have to worry about larger animals either
[snip]
one of the few things our army snipers have had to do
Well, I for one would be careful around those army snipers. I'd sooner take on a spider any day.