Turns Out, Spiders Use Electricity to Fly
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2024
- Apparently some species of spiders can fly… and it turns out they don’t even need the wind to do it.
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now all those instances when Spiderman swings his webs in the sky with no buildings around suddenly make complete sense
Marcos Rodrigues Carvalho,
Ha, so true.
Good thing his webs shoot out of his wrists and not his butt 😂
no no it's clearly attached to uncle ben
When I was using a 3D printing pen, I accidentally got the end of the torn off filament so thin that it was almost invisible. 2 inches long or so, thin as silk. It was attached to more normal filament, and when I held that part, the wispy end always floated up! It wobbles just like a candle flame, and no matter how I turned or rotated the normal filament I was using as a handle, it would waft up as though a breeze were blowing it. I still have it and it still does it. Super weird, maybe this atmospheric charge has something to do with it.
Maybe. I recommend documenting this more. Maybe get some footage.
Interesting
Try insulating yourself from the piece, too. See if that affects it. Rubber glove, maybe? Or hold it with a...hmmm... Just experiment! :D ;)
Cool!
Laff700 oh man, have I tried. I need reading glasses just to see it, and I have 20/20 vision! I’m hoping to find a camera powerful enough to capture it that i can rent
So litteraly riding the lightning? That's pretty metal.
Laezar Someone needs to make a spider Hetfield animation!
Ah, so that explains how Ky Kiske does it :^)
Guilty as charged
But damn it, it ain't right
There's someone else controlling me
Death in the air
Strapped in the electric chair
This can't be happening to me
Who made you God to say
"I'll take your life from you?"
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
Wait for the sign
To flick the switch of death
It's the beginning of the end
Sweat, chilling cold
As I watch death unfold
Consciousness my only friend
My fingers grip with fear
What am I doing here?
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
Someone help me
Oh please, God help me
They're trying to take it all away
I don't want to die
Time moving slow
The minutes seem like hours
The final curtain call I see
How true is this?
Just get it over with
If this is true, just let it be
Wakened by horrid scream
Freed from this frightening dream
Flash before my eyes
Now it's time to die
Burning in my brain
I can feel the flame
D4rkTooga. No idea what you're on about, but i gave it a "like", because it's a nice poem after all.
Thank you.
Ride the Lightning - Metallica.
Ha. "Current" Biology
shocking
Joshua Hillerup thank you you made my day
What you did there. I see it. C:
ba dum tss
+Dorothy Smith I don't know, but I'm gonna guess that's not the way.
So... Joltik/Galvantula should be able to learn the move Fly? That'd be pretty shocking.
Matteus Silvestre yes
Matteus Silvestre +
+
Matteus Silvestre lol
Matteus Silvestre xD
:)
I cant wait till Spider-man uses this power in the next movie.
Well, Homecoming has already introduced the taser-web.
It would be the main power of Thor and Spiderman's love child.
The electric-field sense actually makes a fairly reasonable explanation for Spidey-sense.
Maybe that's how he's able to web-swing even when there aren't any tall buildings nearby.
Give it 10 years though. Someone link this video to Stan Lee
Somebody tell TierZoo about this crazy mod
You would not believe your eyes
If ten million spiders fly
And bit up the world as I fell asleep
Filling the open air
People collapsing everywhere
As spiders enter their vital systems
I'd like to make myself believe,
That lifting off is eeeeeasyyyyy,
Lift my ass in the air and then I spray my silky sheet,
Once I gauge polarity with my feeeeet
'Cause I'd get a thousand bites
From ten thousand spider mites
As they tried to eat me till I die
Jase Poag this is so awesome! Keep it up
A spider fang in my head
A recluse beneath my bed
A black widow is just hanging by a thread
I'd like to make myself believe that planet earth burns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather set fire to the streets
'Cause spiders are everywhere it seems
I can fly just by using my muscles, no electricity needed.
Muscle Hank muscles use electricity to flex
THARE YA ARE MUSCLE HANK
Omar Rodriguez shut up nerd
change your name to hunk green
Muscle Hank
Congrats!
I'd make an electric spider joke, but I'm afraid it won't fly
Sebastian Elytron Well I've spent too much time on the web
XD
I'm a bit shocked that you would think that.
These are making me ec-static.
Me: How do i fly across the yard?
Spider: "I can teach you but i'd have to charge"
brings new meaning to "ride the lightning"
So you're saying spiders invented the flying electric car before we did. I knew they were intelligent creatures
hmm yes interesting. Right? And the pistol shrimp beat us to making guns 😂😭
Yeah, but I still think they pulled this one out of their asses.
And super cute.
Skrinklewink The Sane My god you are clever
Yes and no, this phenomenon is probably dependent on scale, meaning it probably won't work for us big heavy humans ;D.
*You know somethings wrong when a spider flies off like Marry Poppins.*
That one Guy yep
Once dolphins start jumping from our ocean to the moon, then you really have something to worry about.
IM MARY POPPINS YALL
Flying spider rain....my personal Hell
so...spiders can feel electromagnetic fields and also use them................some people are gonna be even more frightened of spiders now..
Yet another reason why to have arachnophobia
Justin Y. I'll reply to all your comments I find.
phobias are irrational, if you have a rational for them, they are not phobias.
Justin Y. *-STOP FOLLOWING ME-*
*I SHOULD STOP FOLLOWING YOU*
Well, arachnophobia can’t be a rational fear unless you live in Australia lol, mostly because to be a rational fear it not only has to be able to kill you or hurt you, but be a clear and present danger. This is a good reason to be afraid of them if they’re nearby, but it shouldn’t matter because it won’t affect your life, so it’s still irrational.
Justin Y. Hey
I think studying this would have more practical effects aside from just not wanting to rain spiders. Spider silk in general has a lot of marvels of engineering, so making a material that could float from static electricity could be useful to humans too.
Spiders are terrifying, but honestly I want a video of spiders flying up and down in that windless electromagnetic chamber thing
I want to see big hairy spider that flys
I want to see big hairy spider that flys
We'll be fine as long as tarantulas never gain access to this technology.
pixel girl Look up galvantula
So static electricity I'm sure the threads create sort of a magnet like threads that help create a lift. It's like rubbin your feet on the rug and holding your hand over a balloon, you can feel some sort of pressure coming from your hand
Hmm, are these spiders affected by the AC currents in power lines?
Did you just hear that? That's the collective "Nope" of half the world's population.
I’m sitting at the periodontist about to have oral surgery, and the numbing isn’t working, and I’m shaking so freaking bad... but listening to Hank is seriously helping me chill. Thanks Hank.
Flying electric spiders??
I want off this planet!!
1701spacecadet
Same dude
Just. Same
Mauricio Casanova what if a spider snuck in the spaceship?
Ground control to major Tom
The spiders are gone
Then may God have mercy on their souls.
I'm popping back to my home world in a few months if ya want a lift.
Killer bees, murder hornets, and now electric flying death spiders. What a world.
Charlotte and stuff !!!
Same way balloons stick to walls?
Edit: Yup, more or less.
Yeah, ok, spider rain is a thing. Uhum. Note taken. *moving to Mars*
They'll follow. They can fly.
nowhere is safe
Nah, once you're 6km up, you're fine.
There are spiders that live at 6,7 km on Mount Everest. They are one of the highest permanent residents on earth... Imagine how hight they go when they take off xD
I wonder what drugs they take, 6.7km... damn... that’s like... 4 miles???
Jack Hughes Yep, around 4.1 miles.
Excellent, so one of the world’s most terrifying creatures with the largest number of legs and smallest number of wings can FLY.
Loading up a volvo and moving to montana? That kinda sounds like a legit situation from a scishow member ;)
Cool stuff!
Btw, I see flying individual spiders a lot where I live but never a rain of them at once.
Nope...
Nope nope nope nope nope
*nopes away*
Rosalie Stevenson
May I nope with you?
I feel your horror...
wait wait wait
we might just be able to make an electrostatic repelent :D this is actually good news. kinda sorta maybe.
It would be bloody hell if a tarantula sized spider joined this electric flying journey... XD
Well… now my arachnophobia just increased
This is, of course, why Peter Parker can always sense when Electro is nearby.
I really enjoyed Hank geeking out over electric flying spiders.
In this thread:
"This is cool!"
"This is terrifying!"
"Does this mean we can have levitating cars now?"
So, spiders are a dual-type flying & electric combo? That would make them one of the best Pokémon to fight other flight types with! What do they evolve into?
Shadow Kit Arachniloon(flying/electric)->Spidrain(bug/water)
Well, this is probably the coolest thing I've heard all week.
Ah, yes, spider rains, the inspiration behind the hit song "Tausend Seide Luftballons." Truly shocking that they use electricity to attain flight.
Jarod Malone god the english translation of *that* song
“One thousand spider-balloons (what’s the rhyme scheme?)...”
WHAHAHA 😂 wtf I only know the german original 😅
Awe, Hank! I get the sense that you have no love for the little spider bros. Why? All they want to do is chill at your place and eat bugs for you. Bugs, Hank! Bugs! Don't worry. You may not like spider bros, but they still got your back.
Jack Linde
"The only good spider is a dead spider" - Garfield the cat
I'm fine with some 8-legged bros chilling in the backyard and munching on some mosquitos, but the second they come inside the hunt is on.
For flies.
This is pretty much the coolest thing.
Did spiders need a way to be more terrifying?
Flying spiders...? Reminds me of the time when i killed a spider mom, and a TON of baby spiders started to fly around me.. ( i was locked inside a car as a kid) so most of them went on my face.. inside my nose.. on my eyes.. inside my hair.. on my lips.. and so on. A billion spiders on my entire body, and i was locked with them.
Fun times. This whole video tho.. made me shiver by the thought of spiders just swarming me out of nowhere O_O
Karma to the extreme
I'm sure you and your siblings would do that to your mother's killer.
Yea! :D U dont forget that kind of thing xD
On max even :P A similar thing happen to my cheating ex :D Aint karma great
Thanks Hank. Informative and entertaining as ever!
Much to learn you have, my young spiderwan.
Electrical force you use, but do not forget the air all around us.
I can imagine writers/mangakas using this mechanic to brew another pop culture worthy story!
In 2008 I was at a festival in Wacken Germany and as we were setting up our tents the spiders were raining down and it rained all day.
They nested in and around our tents. Every morning as we woke up we got webbed in the face as we exited our tents.
It was the closest I ever was to start drinking. I became pretty skiddish around spiders for years.
Galvantula used Fly.
It's super effective!
Hey that's awesome ! Thanks for sharing the discovery, source and all, I much appreciate it =)
Thank you for only showing the rear of spiders! This doesn't induce the creepy crawlies as much for me.
People in those areas should carry static charge devices and it can act like a spider rain umbrella and repel the critters. Maybe even a city wide set of these.
This could explain the phenomenon of the situation in which of two people going through a forest, the one behind always walks into a web.
Cloudy with a chance of spider rain.
Sounds like a perfect day.
Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a spider can...
Stand aside, Electro.
I did not expect that to be the reason.
One time a spider crawled up a pencil i was holding, and it dropped down on a silk strand... and then without any wind, the spider started swinging back and forth in a playful way.
It was clear it was somehow intentionally defying gravity. So its nice to find out how.
(Here's the stuff science hasn't figured out yet) Also I've seen spiders disappear instantly in a tiny flash of light, and strands of spider silk come straight down from the sun at an insanely fast speed, and spiders told me they are one of the main creatures populating Jupiter... so they might be capable of some kind of light travel, which is kind of impressive imo.
Gives me flash backs to Renton in Eureka 7. Similar to how they’d ride the “waves” on their boards though it’s been so long I’m not entirely sure how those things worked.
I wonder if electrostatic charge also helps them be hydro repellent.
This is really cool and very interesting.
Love it, this is one of your best videos!!!!
We had a spider rain all over my city last year. Pretty crazy.
Geez, it feels like I'm always learning something really cool about spiders!
This is one of the most terrifying titles ever
I have a vision of those poor confused spiders happily floating along in the box, then going "Hey, what the--?!?! Yikes!! [thud]."
This was more interesting than I expected
Imagine on the weather channel "today we have 89% chance of spider rain make sure to close your windows"
The charge of the ground likely transfers to the end of the silk due to the tendency of pointed object to have charge move towards those points. Either that or the spiders are mechanically charging the conductive silk on some kind of insulator before it is ejected.
That's like the scariest type of rain
Now take inspiration from spider ballooning and build your own electrostatic flying machine.
It’s already been done, we all call them ufo’s
@@Nickntoss I know. I meant building one on your own, something like electrostatic jetpack emulating spider ballooning with silk wires charged with very high voltage electrostatic force.
Called out by Hank.. literally exactly what I did, I packed up my Volvo and moved to Montana 😂
So spiders are breaking the laws of physics and gravity too now, well I'm very *SHOCKED* to hear that, must've been bad experience for people with arachnophobia.
The more I think about it, the more this sounds like something from Mechanica.
Science never ends. Always new and astonishing things to be discovered in nature
The idea of the nature of spider silk possibly being turned into an electric generator/capacitor leaves me all charged up
Step one: get sponsorship (aka funding)
(PBS probably)
Step two: video rompraising spiders and other experiments/biological phenomena
Step three: awesome lessons
This new discovery is so cool.
SCIENCE IS AWESOME!
Partho Sen "current" science* :P
"Spider ballooning was first described by an English naturalist in the 17th century." Oh, over here we know that was David Attenborough when he was just starting out. In the last 400 years he has become quite legendary.
btw, don't ever think your exclusive use of the metric system has gone unnoticed
Awesome! I'm going to turn them into monsters in my D&D campaign, say hello to Storm Spiders!
Once a big lump fell down from the sky and hit my hat with a thump, and hundreds of tiny spiders came crawling out.
Maybe they charge their silk with just good old triboelectricity, just by frictioning against something within their bodies. And maybe that is related to how they control their flight.
The Pokémon Galvantula seems that much more inspired now.
I've been in a spider rain. It was a little annoying, but didn't worry me.
I can see how the spiders could detect those charges: Tiny current plus tiny conductor would make a larger current density.
Sort of like how the small charges of static electricity can fry tiny conductors in microchips.
Spiders are unbelievable little critters. Gangster as hell, if I may say.
New merchandise? Nice!
@SciShow Suddenly the pokemon Joltik seems much more plausible, you know, to go with its epic adorableness.
I'm suddenly thinking about how this concept can be applied to electric sails for aircraft
It sounds like the spiders are doing their own Millikan’s Oil drop experiment.
So that may explain why I've seen less spiders around.
Please, a video about spiders' origin and evolution.
Baby spider rain sounds overwhelmingly adorable! ^.^ Like the end of Charlotte's Web, but happier!
2:20 Those are some giant trees. They're taller than the mountains and are almost touching the clouds.
Looks like Spider-Man might need a little bit of Electro's power if he wants to fly.
Spiders are so cool! How could anyone dislike them?
While our Hair is standing up when there is static electricity nearby, imagine that spider silk is actually composed very differently that multiple strains, curves, loops and suddenly they're forced to stretch by the electro static forces. The Pull might be compared to the force of straigthening a metal spring, or the force that is upon the ropes connecting a parachute to the person using it.
I wonder if a device could be constructed that can generate a medium that can act as the spiders silk does, like a plasma jet? Scaling up the spiders approach, we would shoot our "silk sail" many miles up into the atmosphere, maybe even to the Van Allen belts, with the correct electromagnetic charge and phase, we could use much more force and perhaps it would be possible to recreate this phenomenon using technology for our own levitating needs. Perhaps some sort of re-tuning of an ION Drive.
Man spiders are terrifying... but also fascinating. Mostly terrifying though.
The entire time this video was playing, Judas Priest's "Riding On The Wind" was playing in my brain part.
Terrifying, simply terrifying
The leftover threads used to be called Angel Hair.
FINALLY I GOT AN ANSWER!!!
Now I'm gonna gather my Chi and fly goku stile