My Worst Nightmare

I have been lacking a computer since Wednesday. My Macbook isn’t waking up when you open it. Supposedly it’s a pretty easy cable to replace. Since then my only online activity has been via my blackberry. I came over to my parents house to watch the Jazz game tonight and decided to check my favorite website Digg.

I was immediately surprised terrified by one of the front page articles.

Spider “Resurrections” Take Scientists by Surprise

Charles Q. Choi
for National Geographic News

April 24, 2009

Spiders in a lab twitched back to life hours after “drowning”—and the scientists were as surprised as anyone.

The bugs, it seems, enter comas to survive for hours underwater, according to a new study.

The salt marsh-dwelling wolf spider Arctosa fulvolineata can revive itself from comas after up to 40 hours of “drowning,” according to an April 2009 report.

Photograph by Sonia Dourlot

Some scientists in France were studying several species of wolf spiders survivability under water. While most spiders died in 24 hours, 2 species from salt marshes offered some very different results. After first being submerged for more then a day, then pronounced “dead” they came back to life in just 2 hours!

Wolf spiders are no laughing matter. Anyone who has ever seen a wolf spider in person understands what I’m saying here. Imagine one day you wake up and find a wolf spider in your shower. Instead of grabbing your favorite spider killing weapon (mine is a vacuum with a 3 foot hose extension,) you simply turn on the water and wash it down the drain and forget about it. A few weeks later you open your shower door only to find this.

She’s back, and she brought her posse, think Cloverfield on a smaller scale. Whats the worst part? These killers are everywhere!

Greenland should really jump on this and start promoting itself as one of the safest places in the world. Untill I can afford to move there, I’m stocking up with a few cans of raid and a dustbuster. I suggest you do the same!

Advertisement