Spiders on a Space Station!
 

Astronauts lose spider in space station

First it was a tool bag, now NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station have misplaced an orb-weaver spider.



Last Updated: 5:19AM GMT 20 Nov 2008


The bug was taken into space aboard the shuttle Endeavor last week, but was reported missing after crew found its tank empty.
But Nasa managers have insisted that the orb-weaver was not exactly lost, just temporarily misplaced..
“We don’t believe that it’s escaped the overall payload enclosure,” Kirk Shireman, Nasa’s deputy space station programme manager told the Times.
“I’m sure we’ll find him spinning a web sometime here in the next few days."
The spider was one of two orb-weavers taken into space for a three-month research mission.
It was hoped the missing spider might have sought refuge in its neighbour's tank, but the remaining spider has spun a web so thick, to cope with the zero-gravity conditions, that is is impossible to check.
The runaway spider, which was meant to be the back-up should the chief spider be incapacitated for any reason, was reported AWOL after Endeavour’s crew opened a cargo container of equipment including a new kitchen and toilet, additional living quarters for the station’s staff and a $250 million machine that will allow future crews to recycle their urine for drinking water.

somebody up there is smoking way to much weed to be losing all this shit recently, spiders, tool bags...

i use to have an orb spider living in my back yard
they are so cool to watch
and their web is amazing
so strong, it felt like a piece of fishing line

two hours ago, I visually identified the space station from my backyard without any telemetry data.

do I get a nerd award?

Snakes On A Plane was hilarious.

no, you need to up your game. Nerds these days are competing to design and launch their own spacecrafts, not just identify those already existing!

do either of you know what the first really really bright thing in the evening sky is? in northern hemisphere? I don't mean the moon / sun, I'm talking about one specific star/planet that isn't part of the 3 constellations I know. I don't remember what time of year. But it is noticeable and I've been told it's venus but i thought that only showed up 'round 3-4 am

Spiders from Mars. Seriously, let's go to Mars already.

yeh
fuck this i wanna go to mars
ben harper got to play a concert there

i thought this was a sequel to huskers on a plane.

Shit! I'd forgotten about Huskers on a motherfucking plane!

this picture is arousing. thats a bit wrong isnt it.

Just as long as you don't get excited about Donkey Shows.

like kinky kelly and the sexy stud?

As long as the donkey doesn't have a heiney troll.

hahahah.

i need to watch that movie again.

gah, me too. I have to limit my Jay and Silent Bob, though, otherwise I turn into Jay for a few hours for the next 2 or 3 days.


Ah, something relevant to the topic:
"Madric space station Spain. E space, E space. Flesh vs Machine. Madrid space station Spain. E space, E space. Flesh vs Machine. Matadors chase the bulls in a china shop"

such a fantastic waste of $$$, it has been sung, "rally site of Mar's ship in darkness, cite them truth right in front of them kids, but your bound to see a world full of your misfortune and dread, man the point of this, they money covers all of it, in search of life? you can see they money conquers all of it, in search of life?"

there is plenty of life on earth which needs taking care of, first things first!

ITT: Unrelated pictures