Link to Youtube video of Spiders on Drugs. They call them wood spiders, but I know them as cat-face spiders. Several of them are given small doses of different drugs to see what effect the drug has on the ability to spin the web. This was done in the 60s from what I can see, but the video has been updated with some modern graphics and narration for comedic effect. Minor profanity at the end of the clip, specifically a term often used at dog shows. Oh, and one pertaining to donkeys. Sort of.

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A Nerd can figure out how long it will take the original Enterprise traveling at warp 6.5 to travel from Regulus to Antares.
A Geek with think he can use that to pick up a girl in a bar.
A Dork knows he can't pick up the girl with it, but will hang around for hours anyway, just in case she asks.
She might. You never know.

Kinda old but cool nonetheless. The world of science needs more researches like this. I had no idea drugs could have some effect on other animals if not kill them. Go to this website for further discussion.
http://www.cannabis.net/weblife.html

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-- Mitch Hedberg

I thought this thread was going to be about Maggie Franklin, Marvel Comics' third Spider-Woman, who was a drug addict. That's how geeky I am.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

I'm pretty sure that none of those are real experiments. Fairly funny vid though

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Schroedinger's Cat

Dead And Alive

Oh, but Are you sure? Where is your evidence?

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P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

-- Mitch Hedberg

My evidence is in the amount of clearly nonscientific (but rather funny) portions added in the film. For example, a q-tip is hardly a good way to administer a controlled quantity of a substance to a spider. Also, the stuff like the hammock and restraining order kind of clinches the argument. Then again, if you have proof that any of them are real, technically, the burden of proof would be on you to show that it was an actual study.

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Schroedinger's Cat

Dead And Alive

It is my opinion that the spiders should have thought twice before posting video of themselves doing illicit drugs on the internet. It's nothing new for Law Enforcement to use online media as evidence to prosecute crime. I suggest these criminal crawlers find a good attourney, ASAP.

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.

"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

And intersting discovery was made about animal behaviour when a spider was filmed making its web. The heat of the film lamps dried up the spider's web fluid, but the spider kept performing web making motions despite nothing coming out. From this they were able to deduce that spiders are stupid.

Okay, it was more about how arthropods often carry out what appear to be preprogrammed sequences of behaviour. Mammals do it too, but are a bit less blatent about it.

If that wasn't so long, I'd make it my sig.

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Rovers forever! - ToSeek
"The only way to explore the universe is to go and look." - Brian Cox
Well, the best way to find out is to go there and, find out. - Raven's Cry
'Evolution and science are one thing, but you don’t mess with Yoko Ono. Everybody knows that. ' - 386sx

In a similar experiment, a discovery was made while filming humans while they were filming spiders. It was found that many had the cap on. From this they were able to deduce that humans are stupid.

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P.S. This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

-- Mitch Hedberg

This is much better when you post it as an objective scientific research.

More surprising.

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Fields of Space

LOGIC, n.
The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

In the Year 2525.

"One small step for (a) man. One giant leap for mankind".

If an astronaut doesn't need good grammar, niether does you.

Host of Seraphim

Well, I once have seen web of a spider on caffeine in one book and it looked exactly like the corresponding image on that page.

Not only that. Some of the humans were wearing baseball caps & wearing them BACKWARDS. Definite proof they are stupid.