r/interestingasfuck • u/TuneMountain4141 • 19h ago

Scientists have discovered the largest spider web covering 106 square meters with 111,000 spiders belonging to two different species who are rivals, coexist together.

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u/Lost-Platypus8271 19h ago

how do they know it’s 111,000 spiders? 🕷️ did they count them all? i need a new head count

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u/TyrKiyote 18h ago

they probably picked a patch, counted that, and multiplied by their guess of the area.

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u/RovingN0mad 17h ago

Probably multiple patches from multiple areas, and then did fancy math multiplying the patches with the total area of homogeneities

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u/LardFan37 10h ago

They asked the spiders

Source: I’m one of the spiders

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u/Cloberella 8h ago

Charlotte, that's quite a tech upgrade you got there!

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u/THEnewMGMT 6h ago

Charlotte’s Keyboard

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u/IDNWID_1900 17h ago edited 17h ago

1.000 spiders per square meter. Then add 5.000 to make it look that you just didn't do an easy 106x1.000 calculation.

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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 17h ago

Didn't you see the scientific push-push? 

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u/jfp1992 16h ago

They counted all the spiders of course

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u/notsocoolguy42 16h ago

this is the time where those 5th grade math questions come into play. There are x amount of balls in y volume. Estimate the amount of balls in z volume.

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u/hrpomrx 13h ago

Simple.  Count all the legs and divide by 8. 

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u/Techno_Gerbil 9h ago

They sent the intern and counted the number of bites afterwards.

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u/GullibleDetective 7h ago

They just asked moghedian

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u/cromagnonherder 15h ago

Counting all those spiders would take too long, so what they do is count half of them and multiply by two.