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madeintaipei posted:Did it because they were free. Wouldn't give you a nickel for the son's books. I'm always blown away by people who read his son's books. I'll read plenty of schlock. But I tried reading some in a Barnes & Noble back when those things existed and I couldn't get past the first chapter. Something about giant robots and cymeks. I'm very pro-giant robots, but none of it made sense in the universe of Dune.
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Knormal posted:Florida's already overrun with giant orb weavers from Asia, I would assume these are the same species and they'll eventually spread all over the south. Wherever it's warm and humid enough.
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Knormal posted:Florida's already overrun with giant orb weavers from Asia, I would assume these are the same species and they'll eventually spread all over the south. Wherever it's warm and humid enough. Those are huge and freaky looking but pretty much just chill, right?
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If they're like the ones we have in Australia, then yes. I've never heard of anyone being bitten by one, and they don't come inside. They just weave massive webs across footpaths and stuff, and do so within the span of a single night, so the next morning you walk through them if you're not careful.
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Yeah, I mean I don't have much experience with them since I've only seen them on the few vacations I've done in Florida, but they pretty much just sit in their web 24/7 and wait for things to hit it. That makes them pretty easy to avoid since they're not out wandering around like tarantulas or jumping spiders, unless they build their web across a path as mentioned above. And their venom's not dangerous to people. They're literally just a really big member of the same group of the orb weavers/garden spiders that you find around the world, and just as harmless. They're just incredibly creepy to run into when you're hiking on a nature trail.
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I like spiders but i hate spider webs
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Those are the ones who occasionally eat small birds, right?
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Much like your avatar feels, if it's small enough to catch it's small enough to eat.
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By popular demand posted:Much like your avatar feels, if it's small enough to catch it's small enough to eat. What is that avatar?
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Milo and POTUS posted:What is that avatar? Ghost Leviathans are creatures in Subnautica.
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and you poo poo your pants when you first encounter one.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I like spiders but i hate spider webs Same All spiders are welcome to chill in my house, but they make too many webs
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Agreed. In Australia, we have huntsmans and wolfspiders. Both are very good, and eat many bugs, and make no webs. We also have daddy long legs that put webs everywhere, all the time; very annoying.
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Nice try. I'm not racist but I would never sublet to Australian spiders
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So...they can hear you move? 
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I'm not going to look at the source, but you can detect objects by the way they change the acoustic properties of the room. It wouldn't be a stretch to think you can track an object as well. The object doesn't have to emit any sound for this to work, ambient noise is enough. And if there's a species (beside bats) that I will believe can use this principle, it's cats.
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By popular demand posted:Much like your avatar feels, if it's small enough to catch it's small enough to eat. Ghost Leviathans are actually filter feeders who only eat microscopic organisms. The problem is that Ghost Leviathans are also absurdly territorial and will attempt to ram the gently caress out of you the instant they notice you in their feeding region.
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Antigravitas posted:I'm not going to look at the source, but you can detect objects by the way they change the acoustic properties of the room. It wouldn't be a stretch to think you can track an object as well. The object doesn't have to emit any sound for this to work, ambient noise is enough. The most reliable way to resolve this is for someone to take one for the team and find the article. Or we can assume that cats can hear original sin. Edit: gently caress it. The article is about cognitive abilities. We knew they can tell where sounds come from, but it turns out no one had proven that they build a mental map of where objects are in space. As in, "hooman is currently in that direction." They used speakers to make it seem like an unseen person teleported, and observed the cats were visibly surprised. Basically, they appear to have a kind of object permanence?? Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 15:32 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/world/cats-track-owners-location-voice-scn/index.htmlquote:Another group of people, who were not animal behavior experts, rated the cats' level of surprise from a scale of 0 to 4, based on behaviors like ear and head movements. I want to see a Level 4 Surprised Cat.
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I managed to sneak up on our sleeping cat once and experienced a level 4 surprised cat. I'd prefer to never experience that again, because it hurt. A lot.
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Antigravitas posted:I'm not going to look at the source, but you can detect objects by the way they change the acoustic properties of the room. It wouldn't be a stretch to think you can track an object as well. The object doesn't have to emit any sound for this to work, ambient noise is enough. But even as a lowly human, don't we have some of that as well? E.g. how many people feel someone is closely behind them despite nog actually making a sound, or how some blind folks develop their own form of echolocation? And yeah, it's already been proven that cats have a form of object permanence, though judging by the fact that all cats I've known have tried to hide behind curtains with their tails sticking out ("if I can't see you, you can't see me!") leads me to believe this ability is weakly developed. Raised By Birds posted:https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/10/world/cats-track-owners-location-voice-scn/index.html I did see that once. I had lost my apartment keys and had to be let in by the neighbour to use the fire escape to enter the apartment - the door/window thingy to the fire escape was always half-opened to let my cat in and out during the day and was 2/3 covered by a roller shutter. When I appeared from under that door, my cat, who was chilling on my bed, gave me the most incredulous look I've ever seen, like "wtf, you're not supposed to come in through this door!!".
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There's a whole wikipedia article on human echolocation Groucho Marx saying this
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Eighties ZomCom posted:So...they can hear you move? It says track, so maybe more like ecolocation than actual hearing.
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We gotta be supportive here. I know these forums are gay but are we good at the sex thing? the Vatican could use some pointers.
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These Forums are gay AND dead. Dead usually means sexually inactive
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Milo and POTUS posted:There's a whole wikipedia article on human echolocation This morning I shot a priest in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.
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Pope Hilarius II posted:But even as a lowly human, don't we have some of that as well? E.g. how many people feel someone is closely behind them despite nog actually making a sound, or how some blind folks develop their own form of echolocation? Our side mounted ears make us really, really good at telling what direction a sound came from compared to dogs and cats. It's neat.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Our side mounted ears make us really, really good at telling what direction a sound came from compared to dogs and cats. It's neat. I’m deaf in one ear. Chalk another one up to my animals over me
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What do the "bottom" church officials think?
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SLOSifl posted:What do the "bottom" church officials think? A cardinal in the streets, a Pillow Pope in the sheets
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Brass Against apologise after frontwoman Sophia Urista urinates on fan’s face during live show
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https://twitter.com/BrassAgainst/status/1459318939926814723 One time only!
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Ah, the presidential treatment.
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I missed the show. Was it streaming?
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Lobok posted:I missed the show. Was it streaming? It was steaming
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