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Post by Dividavi on Jan 12, 2024 20:04:48 GMT
Imagine there are realities in which the Europeans exploring North America didn't find Indians, Bison, Deer and Coyotes but giant spiders. By giant, I mean spiders larger than a house cat up to the size of a horse. Would these European explorers try to exterminate these giants, domesticate them, use them as food animals? Would they succeed in these endeavors or would they determine that giant spiders are too deadly to fight and colonization of North America is impossible. Here's another possibility: Could Europeans share the continent with giant spiders? Here are various illustrations that address those questions. Click on Pinterest images to enlarge.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Jan 12, 2024 20:55:37 GMT
Those eight legged freaks?? Not likely!
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Post by theravenking on Jan 12, 2024 22:14:12 GMT
The author Colin Wilson actually wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels called Spider World.
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Post by ant-mac on Jan 12, 2024 22:19:37 GMT
The author Colin Wilson actually wrote a trilogy of fantasy novels called Spider World. DOCTOR WHO visited the concept of giant spiders more than once...
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Post by Catman on Jan 12, 2024 23:39:40 GMT
There was that movie about giant spiders with the Skipper and Perry Mason's secretary.
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Post by Dividavi on Jan 13, 2024 1:19:27 GMT
There was that movie about giant spiders with the Skipper and Perry Mason's secretary. I never watched The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) but the movie's wikipedia page said that it was a financial success although critics rated it as worthless shit. I never realized until now that the Skipper (Alan Hale) and Della Street (Barbara Hale) shared the same surname. The Giant Spider Invasion also featured Barbara Hale's husband Bill Williams, best known as Kit Carson in the 1950s eponymous TV show. Wikipedia says this about the filming of The Giant Spider Invasion (1975): Additionally, there's this:
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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Jan 13, 2024 1:25:13 GMT
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Post by mowlick on Jan 13, 2024 1:39:00 GMT
Probably not.
A bugs breathing apparatus is such that for it to grow to a decent size, it needs a lot of oxygen, which is why the Permian period had huge insects and up to twice as much oxygen as today. Oxygen is highly reactive and would the levels of 250 million years ago would kill modern man
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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Jan 13, 2024 1:48:23 GMT
Main lyric directed at OP:
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Post by ShadowSouL Likes This on Jan 13, 2024 1:51:00 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2024 2:01:51 GMT
Well, it would certainly be difficult. Maybe impossible. At that size, the silk and exoskeleton would be quite strong. Especially the silk-stronger than steel I think. Imagine trying to make landfall. Also the senses of a spider. Fuck that shit...lol
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Post by Dividavi on Jan 13, 2024 2:05:11 GMT
Tarantula is a 1955 American science-fiction monster film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold. It stars John Agar, Mara Corday, and Leo G. Carroll...Clint Eastwood appears uncredited in a minor role as the jet squadron leader.Yes, Tarantula was a financially successful movie and it led to Mara Corday becoming the unacknowledged Queen of 50s Giant Monster movies. From wikipedia ▶ She had two other co-starring roles in the genre, The Black Scorpion and The Giant Claw (both 1957), as well as in a number of Western films, including Man Without a Star and Raw Edge. Film critic Leonard Maltin said Corday had "more acting ability than she was permitted to exhibit". You will note that while scorpions are not spiders, both animals are very much Arachnids. Publicity still for Man Without a Star (1955) Playboy centerfold appearance October 1958
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Post by Dividavi on Jan 13, 2024 2:40:08 GMT
Probably not.
A bugs breathing apparatus is such that for it to grow to a decent size, it needs a lot of oxygen, which is why the Permian period had huge insects and up to twice as much oxygen as today. Oxygen is highly reactive and would the levels of 250 million years ago would kill modern man
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trachea#InvertebratesAs I understand it, to grow large, Arthropods would need to develop lungs in order to get enough oxygen. No Insects have lungs. Instead, they have a spiracle network from holes on their side that allows oxygen to directly contact body parts. There is no air sack, or lung, to store air or exhale. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiracle_(arthropods)It would therefore appear that Giant Arthropods would necessarily be Arachnids, not insects. Here's how Arachnids might get big in a reality where no vertebrates climbed out of the water:
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Post by Stammerhead on Jan 13, 2024 16:26:14 GMT
Judging by this trailer they'd end up harassing scantily clad young ladies.
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Post by Pippen on Jan 13, 2024 16:57:57 GMT
Stowaways in a shipment of fruit
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