Experiences with big spiders
Mar 30, 2007 at 3:43 PM Post #152 of 182
Alaskan King Crab! It tastes wonderful! Best had boiled then chilled and then into your mouth having been dipped in extra hot Tabasco mixed with garlic-flavoured Tabasco and some tomato sauce... I tell you, this stuff is better than lobster! If you're having it at a Japanese restaurant and are ordering other seafood stuff, ask the chef to make some soup with the inedible/leftover stuff (shell, unpeelable bits, but probably not the innards) afterwards...
 
Mar 30, 2007 at 4:16 PM Post #153 of 182
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Sorry, can't help you with that. It was a long time ago (year? don't really know, I just remember watching that same footage of the spider drug test (without the car and gun etc of course) in a documentary), could've been natgeo or discovery. Main point of the documentary: spider webs really change shapes if the spider is intoxicated. Different drugs produce different webs.

Here is an example.
 
Mar 30, 2007 at 4:32 PM Post #154 of 182
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If you're having it at a Japanese restaurant and are ordering other seafood stuff, ask the chef to make some soup with the inedible/leftover stuff (shell, unpeelable bits, but probably not the innards) afterwards...


Well I know the gills aren't good for you, some sort of toxin that causes food poisoning is concentrated in them.

I don't know though. Best crustacean I've eaten was a crayfish cooked by my uncle. So much more convenient than eating a crab as well. He cut them in half length ways and put put a marinate of herbs of some sort into the tail section and then put them on the bbq. Beautiful.
 
Mar 30, 2007 at 4:46 PM Post #155 of 182
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Well I know the gills aren't good for you, some sort of toxin that causes food poisoning is concentrated in them.

I don't know though. Best crustacean I've eaten was a crayfish cooked by my uncle. So much more convenient than eating a crab as well. He cut them in half length ways and put put a marinate of herbs of some sort into the tail section and then put them on the bbq. Beautiful.


Let me say one more thing about food right and I'll shut up!
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Crayfish is also great. I love them in sandwiches with a bit of rocket and lemon mayonnaise dressing.

Right back to spiders! No more food! Unless you eat spiders on toast! Spider sashimi could be interesting
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Mar 30, 2007 at 6:51 PM Post #157 of 182
Mar 30, 2007 at 7:15 PM Post #158 of 182
I did an attachment at a specialist diabetes hospital and the stuff people had was pretty disgusting. The smell of rotten flesh is not nice, but you'll be surprised how common it occurs.
 
Mar 30, 2007 at 8:55 PM Post #159 of 182
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I love jumpers,they are fascinating to study as they stalk their prey.
They also have a pair of movable eyes, [not whether all species of jumper
share this feature] but unlike ours the moving parts are internal.
Behind the glassy outer parts lie long cone like structures that aim at its
target.
One particular species [I really wish I could remember which!]
was featured on a National Geographic show a while back.
They placed a monitor in front of it so it could see itself.
It was quite something to see this tiny creature signaling to the image on the monitor!!
Apparently this sort of behavior is only normally observed with primates...
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Yeah, I've read some fascinating stuff about them. That they seem to be able to remember - stalking prey even when it's out of sight, and all sorts of cool things. One of the few kinds spiders with excellent vision, too.

Besides, how could anyone look at these things and not think they're cute?
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Everyone now, say "awwwww..."
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Mar 30, 2007 at 9:11 PM Post #160 of 182
those are cute, but bigger spiders creep me out, yet at the same time, i'm facinated by them

as long as they stay in a corner, i'll leave them be, and let them do their work killing any bugs that should wander into my home, but if they start crawling towards my stuff, they die
 
Mar 30, 2007 at 10:09 PM Post #161 of 182
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Yeah, I've read some fascinating stuff about them. That they seem to be able to remember - stalking prey even when it's out of sight, and all sorts of cool things. One of the few kinds spiders with excellent vision, too.

Besides, how could anyone look at these things and not think they're cute?

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Everyone now, say "awwwww..."
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All I see are faces of evil.
 
Mar 31, 2007 at 12:35 PM Post #164 of 182
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Quite informative. Click on the link about Philip Anderson chap who's some expert of Brown Recluse bites. Apparently, loxoscelism is rare and there is no concrete evidence showing that it actually happens. Most of "victims" survive and heal fully (ie minimal scarring) without medical treatment. That's comforting. Whatever the guy did to get his hand to look like that is beyond me. He probably got it infected, but an infection alone won't cause such profound necrosis...


Necrotising fascitis due to Group A Strep or strange species of Vibro can get that bad, all in a day or two. If the patient has diabetes, God save him.

Yes, even in this "modern" age of antibiotics, bacterial infections can still be more fearsome than cancer.
 
Mar 31, 2007 at 12:51 PM Post #165 of 182
Yes Strep pyogenes causes necrosis from the inside though. His whole arm would've turned very purple and it would've been life threatening by the time it reached the skin. Sadly, Strep pyogenes is only treatable at an early stage via antibiotics. After the first that, it's surgery followed by amputation. Just looking at this guy's hand, it doesn't look like a Strep A infection (at least not the flesh-eating type). It's too localised. Anyhow, I'm only in my first year of med school so maybe I'm wrong...
 
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