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29-10-2009, 08:51 AM
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| | | Spiders on Drugs?
Hello 
I’d be very grateful if someone could let me know if this is fact or fiction. I first came across this many years ago and couldn’t work out if it was a spoof or not. I’m still not sure. But if it isn’t, why on earth was the research done, and what did they learn from it ?
Also, I know a fair bit about human biology, but nothing about spider physiology. If this research actually happened, were the drugs acting on common receptor sites? We seem so different from spiders. Perhaps I’m wrong.
And if this has been discussed before, please just give me a link and I’ll wander off and satisfy my curiosity there 
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29-10-2009, 03:01 PM
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I remember seeing this. According to the Web it was conducted originally by a German scientist called Witt, then by NASA. I found what looked like genuine info on science-bookmarks dot com, but they show the very same Youtube clip that I VMed to you, so now I'm not at all sure. 
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29-10-2009, 03:07 PM
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Why isn't the government doing something about these junkie spiders, that's what I'd like to know. It'll be rowdy gastropods causing trouble on the way home from the 'slug pubs' next... |
29-10-2009, 11:03 PM
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Originally Posted by loripo  I remember seeing this. According to the Web it was conducted originally by a German scientist called Witt, then by NASA. I found what looked like genuine info on science-bookmarks dot com, but they show the very same Youtube clip that I VMed to you, so now I'm not at all sure. | Yup. That's exactly what happened to me when I tried to research it. Time to know the truth, I reckon |
29-10-2009, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by burntfacedjake Why isn't the government doing something about these junkie spiders, that's what I'd like to know. It'll be rowdy gastropods causing trouble on the way home from the 'slug pubs' next... | Y'see...This is what happens. I try to ask a completely serious question for once and do they believe you? Do they 'eck! |
29-10-2009, 11:13 PM
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I went thru a few pages of google on this, picking out what looked like serious stuff. There was one from New Scientist which referred back to a 1975 article. That clip is very funny as it starts of quite like a documentary and the bit about the cannabis making the spider weave a hammock made me laugh. If it was a serious experiment I should think the dosage would have had to be minute not to kill them off.
NASA definately did do experiments to see if spiders needed gravity to make webs and apparently they adjusted to weightlessness.
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30-10-2009, 10:54 AM
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| | | Re: Spiders on Drugs?
I have a few scientific documents on this somewhere but not on hand at present. Scientific studies have definitely been carried out observing web making under the influence. I can't remember the drugs used, may have been cannabis? If I dif them out I'll post it up.
No.9 Spider
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31-10-2009, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by loripo I went thru a few pages of google on this, picking out what looked like serious stuff. There was one from New Scientist which referred back to a 1975 article. That clip is very funny as it starts of quite like a documentary and the bit about the cannabis making the spider weave a hammock made me laugh. If it was a serious experiment I should think the dosage would have had to be minute not to kill them off.
NASA definately did do experiments to see if spiders needed gravity to make webs and apparently they adjusted to weightlessness. | Do you have a link to that article? I'd love to see it.
Longest-standing cyberfriend ever is a regular contributor to NS so I might be able to convince him to dig up the whole article when he comes home from swanning about in the States
You whetted my appetite with that bit about the hammock
And I'm definitely going to look up that NASA experiment as I can't live now without finding out exactly *how* the spiders adjusted to zero gravity
Cheers,
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31-10-2009, 07:29 AM
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Originally Posted by No.9 Spider I have a few scientific documents on this somewhere but not on hand at present. Scientific studies have definitely been carried out observing web making under the influence. I can't remember the drugs used, may have been cannabis? If I dif them out I'll post it up. | The plot thickens. Just as I was starting to accept that it had all been a spoof after all, you mention actual scientific studies.
Cannabis ay? It would be interesting to discover the mode of administration Although I'm perfectly serious about this topic, I've found that the discussion has generated some seriously surreal cartoon images in my mind
No 9 Spider, please post those studies when you find them, and don't worry about having to resurrect this thread if it takes a while. I must know the truth
Many thanks, as ever,
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