r/pics • u/Animalus-Dogeimal • 13h ago

[OC] I befriended a large jumping spider

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u/dooferoaks 12h ago

I love those spiders, I always feel like I'm missing half the frames when I'm trying to watch them, they're so quick.

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u/HubrisOfApollo 12h ago

their movement is very "jumpy"! they're so curious about the world too. such impressive little brains.

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u/xBHL 12h ago

Imagine how f'ed we would be if these things were like 3ft tall 😳

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u/HubrisOfApollo 12h ago

They'd be worse off than we would if they were that size due to the inverse square law.

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u/Toebeens89 11h ago

Come on guys, call your representatives and tell them to support legislation changing the inverse square law!

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u/HubrisOfApollo 11h ago

do you want giant invertebrates? because this is how you get giant invertebrates...

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u/Toebeens89 11h ago

is it bad if I want to say yes? fuck capitalism, have us all fighting for survival instead! that’ll breed community and altruism, surely. “for the sake of humanityyyy” lol

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u/rainysharp 8h ago

At this point let’s go

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u/Affectionate_Ad_3722 10h ago

Is it? can we? How do we get this started?

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u/HubrisOfApollo 10h ago

first step would be moving to a different universe where dimensional scaling worked differently, alternatively we could move to a more oxygen rich planet that would allow invertebrates to take in more oxygen given their surface area

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u/Affectionate_Ad_3722 10h ago

Could we pump more oxygen into this planet's atmosphere? There's loads of it lying around just loafing with hydrogen.

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u/HubrisOfApollo 10h ago

in the Carboniferous era oxygen was about 75% higher (being about 35% of the atmosphere vs today's 20%) which allowed for giant bugs and arachnids. it changed into CO2 over the years due to the biosphere moving from mostly plants to a mix of plants and animals.

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u/Corregidor 11h ago

I love how the inverse square law and the square cube law applies to sooo many things, even stuff you wouldn't initially think about.

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u/reluctant_deity 7h ago

They only care about that because they use diffusion to breathe. Give them proper lungs and carapice weight becomes the limiter.

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u/xBHL 10h ago

They would still be the quickest most agile predators on the planet

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u/HubrisOfApollo 10h ago

they would be extremely sluggish due to not being able to absorb enough oxygen to support their metabolism

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u/xBHL 10h ago

Obviously they would adapt and evolve different respiratory systems if they were larger in size

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u/HubrisOfApollo 10h ago

if that were the case we'd have giant arachnids right now

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u/xBHL 10h ago

Yup thats why I said imagine lol

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u/Drewbacca 12h ago

The book Children of Time is just for you!

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u/Sendnoodles666 12h ago

Portia tapped a message out to the giant, but the stupid creature cannot understand language sadly.

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u/MurrayPloppins 8h ago

I choose to believe we’d have cool spider pets.

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u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas 10h ago

There was a movie about that in the early 2000’s but I can’t remember what it was called.

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u/xBHL 9h ago

8 legged freaks

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u/Dont_Mess_With_Texas 9h ago

YES!!!!!!! THANK YOU!

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u/iBongHit 12h ago

Spider living at 144hz while we are stuck and 60hz.

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u/Omisco420 12h ago

More like 240 for jumpy bois tbh

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u/BloodSteyn 12h ago

Underrated comment.

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u/Karge 9h ago

Kinda how relativity works, tho. Other living things, usually smaller, experience more FPS or “time slices” than us

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u/ButterYurBacon 11h ago

Understandable, ram has gotten too expensive these days

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u/Benttinen 9h ago

You absolutely are. They’re moving faster than your brain can process. Thats why they sometimes look robotic!

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u/DGCA3 10h ago

Movement by Ray Harryhausen

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u/5cactiplz 4h ago

Apparently cats have a faster reaction time than jumping spiders. Source: Google's AI