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Raspberry_Yoghurt
Nov 28, 2015
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When a spider wants to travel long distances, it simply casts out a strand of silk, captures the breeze and "flies" away. They are known to travel hundreds of miles, even ending up on islands in the middle of the ocean.

Now scientists have figured out how this mode of transportation works. They also discovered that spiders have very little influence where they're flown when caught in a stiff wind.

http://www.livescience.com/4142-spiders-fly-hundreds-miles.html

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whiskers2002
Nov 29, 2015
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#2

okay... spiders+silk=a unplaned vacation. bingo 

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Raspberry_Yoghurt
Nov 29, 2015
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#3

Spider are the perfect hippie tourists, "Im chilled man, I'll just travel to where the wind blows me to"

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Podaryonka
Dec 3, 2015
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#4

Thanks! Very interesting! :-)

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pineconehenry
Dec 3, 2015
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#5
Because spiders are unable to be domesticated, some scientists gmo'd goats to secrete silk along with their milk. I hope those goats don't get any ideas...
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Raspberry_Yoghurt
Dec 4, 2015
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pineconehenry wrote:
Because spiders are unable to be domesticated, some scientists gmo'd goats to secrete silk along with their milk. I hope those goats don't get any ideas...

Heh, if I see a goat dropping from the sky, now I know why