GamblersGrin Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 http://www.missblackwidow.com/drugs.html as i said, this is a for nerds thread. amazing nasa experimentations of spiders high on mescaline, lsd, caffeine, sleeping pills, marijuana, and speed. there are pics of the webs the spider created while on each drug. quite interesting. heres the article... Scientists at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have turned their attention from the mysteries of the cosmos to a more esoteric area of research: what happens when you get a spider stoned. Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given. Spiders on marijuana made a reasonable stab at spinning webs but appeared to lose concentration about half-way through. Those on Benzedrine - "speed" - spin their webs "with great gusto, but apparently without much planning leaving large holes", according to New Scientist magazine. Caffeine, one of the most common drugs consumed by Britons in soft drinks, tea and coffee, makes spiders incapable of spinning anything better than a few threads strung together at random. On chloral hydrat, an ingredient of sleeping pills, spiders "drop off before they even get started". Nasa scientists believe the research demonstrates that web-spinning spiders can be used to test drugs because the more toxic the chemical, the more deformed was the web. The scientists believe their previous work on the goemetry of crystals will help them to devise computer programs that can analyse web-building objectively in order to predict the toxicity of new medicines. "It appears that one of the most telling measures of toxicity is a decrease, in comparison with a normal web, of the numbers of completed sides [of a web]; the greater the toxicity, the more sides the spider fails to complete", the scientists say. Paul Hillard, spider specialist at the Natural History Museum in London, said researchers first discovered the effects of psychotropic drugs on spiders during experiments at the end of 1960s. The researchers fed caffeine to spiders in hope of making them spin webs in the late evening rather than the early dawn. The result was eccentric webs rather than earlier spinning, he said. Article and research by Steve Connor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 uhm....great....where's the web link? oh...never mind eeewww....creepy shit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abracadabra Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 "wanna try cure cancer today?" "nah" "what about aids?" "bor-ring" "how bout we get some spiders smashed?" "AWESOME!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GamblersGrin Posted April 22, 2004 Author Share Posted April 22, 2004 yeah...government dollars at work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boring Bastard Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Some of those webs look like they were made using publisher paintshop or whatever you call it.......I don't know if this is real.......whatever! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClueTwo Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Amazing...The LSD web looks the best in my opinion..Tiiight...heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ODS-1 Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 How many ghetto kids could that money have fed? Oh yeah, who cares. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest KING BLING Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Originally posted by Asickeronius Some of those webs look like they were made using publisher paintshop or whatever you call it.......I don't know if this is real.......whatever! http://www.missblackwidow.com/chloralhydrat.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adderall Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 i saw this a long time ago still interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigpoppa.k Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 the peyote one looks pretty good.. does that mean we should all be rockin Peyote and Mescaline? i'm down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weapon X Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 ^ Your styles are just fine. But if you really want to puke for the first day before you do a piece, haha, I’d like to see that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gfreshsushi Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 i like the peyote web. and i really hope this is fake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
26SidedCube Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 It's not fake, it was done in like 1960's by NASA researchers or something in that vein... They still do this to this very day in college Bio classes.... goddamn, I hope you guys don't actually think this was somehow a multi-million/billion dollar experiment. Chill on the Anarcho 'how many brown people could that have fed' tip. Pick your battles. Sheesh. Edit: This is all off the top of my head, but it's in Time Science 1975. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eseLokE1uno Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 http://www.missblackwidow.com/benzedrine.jpg'> looks like a headshot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 The big mystery is how the fuck did they get the drugs into the spiders in the first place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiffer Jet Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 "sugar coat" their "food"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2 blaazed Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 thats deff. BUGged out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinup Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Thanks to these amazing experiments, we have learned that... drugs make you do weird shit ? HOORAY FOR NASA !! they should stick to tossing furry things into orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoink Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 im not goin to trust anything I read on that fruit cake of a ladies site. no sir. http://www.missblackwidow.com/images/me_002.jpg'> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 One of my best friends worked for 2 years getting chimps and monkeys hooked on drugs. Awesomest job ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinup Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Originally posted by El Mamerro One of my best friends worked for 2 years getting chimps and monkeys hooked on drugs. Awesomest job ever. I hope he worked for a lab of some sort otherwise that's just mean ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest imported_El Mamerro Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Obviously. He then spent a year afterwards chronicling Rhesus monkey sex habits. He's got some awesome pictures and videos of him standing a foot away from monkeys wylin' it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fondles Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 craaaaaazy p.s. im terrified of spiders..sounds homo admitting it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunm Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 Originally posted by El Mamerro One of my best friends worked for 2 years getting chimps and monkeys hooked on drugs. Awesomest job ever. So you mean to say he pushed drugs to kids at raves? heh heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GnomeToys Posted April 22, 2004 Share Posted April 22, 2004 All this study proves to me is that spiders rely on their dopamine and norepinephrine systems more than their serotonin systems, which isn't all that surprising. What a fucking waste of money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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