I practiced rendering spiders unconscious today. It’s surprisingly easy.
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Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
I practiced rendering spiders unconscious today. It’s surprisingly easy.
You mean roofies? ;)
I suppose banging them with a big 3lb hammer, repeatedly, really hard, like BANG-BANG, that’s not what you’re talking about is it?
Okay, I give up. What was the music you used?
simplicio, annoying. I got like 15 seconds in before giving up.
Use that Cordyceps zombiefying fungus?
Though not sure tthat knocks them out so much a sjust take sover their briands and bodies
simplicio@3 I assume the intended is effect is a silent movie, but I don’t think it’s one of these 10 songs. I skipped around a lot, so I’m not sure.
I cheated and used midomi, but at least part of it is Comic Plodding by Kevin MacLeod.
Nvm PZ credits Kevin MacLeod in the written YouTube description. I did find this album on my own but I couldn’t place all the tracks.
At least the spider didn’t wake up to find itself tied across the railway tracks.
One sometimes worries about biologists.
You can just turn off the sound. This is an otherwise silent movie.
@2 What a dreadful and shocking idea,I wish I had thought of it first.
And he had just finished his dins dins as well .
Where’s the “No spiders were harmed…” disclaimer?
Thanks. I hadn’t run into Kevin Macleod before and didn’t think to look on Youtube.
I think the real surprise to me was that carbon dioxide works in the short term on spiders and they seem to recover. Since in mammals (and possibly all fish descendants) CO2 poisoning causes a panic attack (1986 Lake Nyos limnic eruption, silage deaths, and animals getting their heads caught in jars), the same doesn’t seem to be true of spiders, although it was hard to tell from the video. This is not true for suffocation in an argon or nitrogen atmosphere, where the victim seems to be unaware of imminent death, which is probably the reason that nitrogen suffocation chambers are so popular where assisted suicide is legal.
I guess that was the whole point of the video, but the music was a definite plus.