LET'S HEAR IT FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH, CONTINUED
Thanks to Rob Adams, who says: This is exactly the sort of worthwhile research that our government should be funding.
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Posted by: powerhungry | February 24, 2005 at 02:17 PM
judi - are the powerful goat-racing interests making you post this twice? You've got to fight them, lass ?
Posted by: insomniac | February 24, 2005 at 02:19 PM
Goats? Crabs? (Do they go sideways?)
Where I'm from, they have the International Turtle racing championships.
Posted by: Uncle Omar | February 24, 2005 at 02:22 PM
*sorry* that should end "!" not "?".
Posted by: insomniac | February 24, 2005 at 02:23 PM
sorry :) fixed now!
Posted by: judi | February 24, 2005 at 02:24 PM
First after the link was fixed!!?
Posted by: powerhungry | February 24, 2005 at 02:26 PM
NOW I understand why I enjoy Spider Robinson's writing so much.
Posted by: Uncle Omar | February 24, 2005 at 02:37 PM
Woah! No wonder my hands start to shake when I get too much caffine in me. Maybe I should change to mescaline....
Posted by: wysiwyg | February 24, 2005 at 02:37 PM
This is an old experiment. I first encountered it in RESearch magazine in their edition on licit and illicit drugs. Its a fascinating read overall.
Posted by: a | February 24, 2005 at 02:38 PM
Cuzzin Omar: I'm pretty sure Spider does a cocktail of all the items shown, PLUS a big shot of "Lady Slings the Booze" before he sets out a plotline for his books.
Posted by: unca roggie | February 24, 2005 at 02:45 PM
I'd like to see the web spun by a spider that took a bite out of Jose Conseco.
Posted by: Lairbo | February 24, 2005 at 02:51 PM
Well, all four of the drug-induced webs are better than anything I can spin out of anything I can excrete so far. Maybe I should start using hashish, mescaline, and LSD too.
Posted by: reneviht | February 24, 2005 at 02:58 PM
Oh, I wasn't paying attention. I guess I need to start eating flies that use hashish, mescaline, and LSD. MKJ, can you find me some stoned flies on eBay?
Posted by: reneviht | February 24, 2005 at 02:59 PM
Think I need the caffeine, I looked at the headline and thought it said "...Dog-Nosed Flies."
(Like, how can they tell?)
Posted by: candy tutt | February 24, 2005 at 03:44 PM
oh dear. tried to open and my work's firewall catagorized as "Drugs". terrific, guess i better start drinking water now for that randon drug test i'll be asked for.
Posted by: jen | February 24, 2005 at 03:50 PM
I notice the only web that looked seriously retarded was the caffeine one. And that's the only one of those drugs I still use - damn! Time to regress.
Posted by: Wally Ballou | February 24, 2005 at 03:51 PM
*note to anyone in tech support currently monitoring my system* not that I need water for anything specific mind you! water is healthy! yea, that's the ticket...
Posted by: jen | February 24, 2005 at 03:56 PM
Now I know what was in the basement with "Mickey"
Maybe I should call the local "constable" instead of Terminex? Them spiders are getting rather frisky...
Posted by: Starbuck-boy | February 24, 2005 at 04:41 PM
Haha, well that proves it. Starbucks is evil, I tell you, Eeeeevillll....
Posted by: Corn | February 24, 2005 at 05:01 PM
Am I the only one surprised that the spiders make a better web on mescaline than on caffeine? Bye bye Juan Valdez, hello green tea.
Posted by: everysandwich | February 24, 2005 at 05:05 PM
Well, that explains the condition of my house!
Posted by: Moe | February 24, 2005 at 05:22 PM
I think you're on to something, Corn. Eeeeeeeeeevil and eeeeeeeverywhere.
Posted by: everysandswich | February 24, 2005 at 05:43 PM
This is your spider..This is your spider on Hunter S. Thompsons breakfast..
Posted by: Sean | February 24, 2005 at 05:51 PM
I mean this is your spider after he EATS some of Hunter S. Thompson's breakfast..
Posted by: Sean | February 24, 2005 at 05:54 PM
Cuzzin Roggie -- well, yeah, that'd be my guess ... but Lady Slings the Booze is not the only one ... I'm in the midst of reading Callahan's Key right now, and the chemical mood-altering substances flow pretty freely there, too ...
Posted by: Uncle Omar | February 24, 2005 at 06:11 PM
I was just reading my copy of Charlete's Web and I realized that she wasn't really a smart spider after all - Just too much Starbucks
Posted by: Papua Mike | February 24, 2005 at 07:02 PM
the LSD web looks like it might catch more drug flies that the "drug naive" spider web. Plus any researcher worth llama spit would have included Poison Toad secretion for an example.
Are the toxicology results back on Mickey?
Posted by: philintexas | February 24, 2005 at 07:52 PM
All over the world parent spiders are breathing a sigh of relief. Just what they wanted a D.A.R.E. program because we all know how big of a drug problem they have.
Posted by: opiesgirl | February 24, 2005 at 08:46 PM
Yeah, this information is GREAT for next time I want to become a spider and then take drugs.
What's next, a study of dogs driving vehicles to test which ones are safe?
"Here's a Toyota Camry after being driven by a chihuahua."
"Here's a Mini Cooper after being driven by a Saint Bernard."
Next we're going to feed the dogs spiders that have eaten drugged flies and see how it affects their (the dogs) ability to rebuild the transmission of a 1967 Corvette.
Posted by: Christobol | February 25, 2005 at 04:11 AM
Well this explains the story of the Little Old Lady that swallowed the fly. As the story goes we don't know why she swallowed the fly - well now we know.
Posted by: jilly willy | February 25, 2005 at 04:50 AM
jilly willy --
... we also get the hidden meaning as to why she swallowed the horse ...
(or is that nomenclature so old it's another ticket on the geezer bus ... ?)
Posted by: U.O. | February 25, 2005 at 11:37 AM
Wow, what a waste of drugs. Spiders don't get affected the same way as humans.
Redo the study. Give the drugs to humans and see what they can knit.
Posted by: blah | February 25, 2005 at 12:05 PM
Or at least compromise and give the drugs to Spiderman, and see how often he shoots a web at "that pretty cloud up there" and crashes to the pavement.
Posted by: Corn | February 25, 2005 at 05:09 PM