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A spider web unlike any seen before

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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by nosianu »

shawabawa3 wrote: post #29

"The cave is full of hydrogen sulphide gas in too high concentrations for most animals to survive" Over a shot of a bunch of people walking around with no masks on?

Read a bit further, the very next sentence???

> “All you could smell was sulfur hydrogen, and you cannot breathe,” Dr. Vrenozi said, recalling that most of the researchers were wearing masks. But as they descended deeper into the cave, she said that “you get used to the smell of spoiled eggs.”

Also, you use "" but you are not quoting, the text inside your quotes does not exist in the article. The actual quote would be

> The cave is hard to reach and is filled with foul-smelling hydrogen sulfide gas, in concentrations too great for most animals to live there.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by hnlmorg »

kijin wrote: post #30
szszrk wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the article claims cave is pitch dark, so I guess the invisible part is granted anyway.

Cave-dwelling animals don't just crash into walls all the time, so by "visible" I mean large enough and dense enough to be recognized as an obstacle in whatever navigation system they use.

They do rest on walls though.

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by emmelaich »

dr_dshiv wrote: post #7

Spiders are super solitary creatures. I wonder, though, if they could become social.

Not sure if you'd count it as social, but the dancing spiders certainly put effort into courtship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qkzwG2lLPc Peacock spiders, dance for your life! - BBC

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by voidUpdate »

nosianu wrote: post #31
shawabawa3 wrote: post #29

"The cave is full of hydrogen sulphide gas in too high concentrations for most animals to survive" Over a shot of a bunch of people walking around with no masks on?

Read a bit further, the very next sentence??? > “All you could smell was sulfur hydrogen, and you cannot breathe,” Dr. Vrenozi said, recalling that most of the researchers were wearing masks. But as they descended deeper into the cave, she said that “you get used to the smell of spoiled eggs.” Also, you use "" but you are not quoting, the text inside your quotes does not exist in the article. The actual quote would b…

Getting used to the smell doesn't mean it's safe though... And isn't the safe level of hydrogen sulphide "if you can smell it, its not safe"?

Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by [deleted] »

apricot13 wrote: post #14

One half of me is fascinated by this as spiders are such amazing creatures. So long as they don't break our house rules they're welcome to stay, especially the spindles! The other half of me didn't scroll far enough down and a a slither of the video played at the bottom of the screen making me think a spider was running across my arm and made me jump!

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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by [deleted] »

nosianu wrote: post #31
shawabawa3 wrote: post #29

"The cave is full of hydrogen sulphide gas in too high concentrations for most animals to survive" Over a shot of a bunch of people walking around with no masks on?

Read a bit further, the very next sentence??? > “All you could smell was sulfur hydrogen, and you cannot breathe,” Dr. Vrenozi said, recalling that most of the researchers were wearing masks. But as they descended deeper into the cave, she said that “you get used to the smell of spoiled eggs.” Also, you use "" but you are not quoting, the text inside your quotes does not exist in the article. The actual quote would b…

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Re: A spider web unlike any seen before

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Post by thaumasiotes »

This NYT article opens with a video showing the web and some explanatory text.

The archive.today copy doesn't play the video. The thumbnail image is present. The tag is present on the archived page, but its src attribute has been renamed to "old-src". Re-renaming the old-src attribute back to "src" will cause the video to play, but at that point you're playing the original non-archived video directly from nyt.com. This will presumably break if NYT takes the video down.

Does archive.today not archive videos?

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