Australian Spiders Travel To Space

Mike Parsons writes "CNN is reporting an interesting story on Australian spiders that will travel to space for a scientific experiment. Here is a quote: Eight spiders from Australia will make a trip to outer space to help the U.S. space agency test the effects of zero gravity. It's not the first time arachnids have been sent into space. In 1973, NASA sent Arabella, a common cross spider in the United States, into orbit on the Skylab space station."

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Fear the web!

[iMMersE]

I just hope the astronauts don't have arachnophobia.

Just imagine, you're in outer space, trapped inside a sealed container, no place to go, and you feel something moving inside your AstroSleepTight (tm) bag ...

obligitory simpsons quotation

[farnsworth]

watch your local news for this story:

Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants^H^H^H spiders. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants^H^H^H spiders will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect^H^H^H^H arachnid overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.