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Offline Ack-Ack

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Effects of Drugs and Alcohol on Spiders
« on: January 03, 2007, 02:45:53 PM »
The Canadian government did a detailed research program into the effects of drugs and alcohol on spiders, mostly on the what effects the drugs and booze would have on web making.  It's actually quite fascinating how drugs effected not only the web making but also the social interaction of the spider.


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« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2007, 02:50:36 PM »
turns out the effects are pretty similar to the effects on humans by the same substances, thanks for posting.
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« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2007, 02:59:12 PM »
lols, "Hinterland Who's Who" is a familiar friend from my youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinterland_Who's_Who


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« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2007, 03:30:31 PM »
That was a very educational video. :rofl Never knew spiders were so much like humans.
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« Reply #4 on: January 03, 2007, 03:47:57 PM »
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« Reply #5 on: January 03, 2007, 04:02:26 PM »
Finally, government money put to good use.

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« Reply #6 on: January 03, 2007, 04:14:07 PM »
LOL. It had me going until the THC spider built a hammock.

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« Reply #7 on: January 03, 2007, 09:55:06 PM »
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man! I am glad that I gave up the weed years ago!:  cuz I heard that smoking dat **** wuz gonna make me some crack spiders ***** someday and all I would do all day long is look at break.com and take it in my spider ass... didn't sound like the kind of life I wanted to lead! So I joined a monestary for low IQ wood spiders down here in the states... worked all my problems out and got me a fine lookin web under a prk bench where I met this crazy black widow ***** and....



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