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Spiders on drugs – see how they web

Mihai AndreibyMihai Andrei
January 16, 2013
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In 1995, scientists working at NASA took a break from the usual cosmic research to tackle a much different problem: getting spiders stoned. Their experiments have shown that common house spiders spin their webs in different ways according to the psychotropic drug they have been given; the more toxic the drug, the more deformed the web. Surprisingly enough, spiders on coffee created much more deformed webs than those on marijuana, speed and even LSD. Wonder why this happened…

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Normal spider web, no drugs.
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Spider web on mescaline – a psychedelic alkaloid typically extracted from cactus, used by shamans from North America to transcend in a trance.
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Spider web on LSD
Spider web on marijuana
Spider web on marijuana
Spider web on caffeine - see how damaged and deformed it is.
Spider web on caffeine – see how damaged and deformed it is.
Spider web on speed - it looks a little better than on caffeine.
Spider web on speed – it looks a little better than on caffeine.
Sleeping pills - the most toxic of them all.
Sleeping pills – the most toxic of them all.

 

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Dr. Andrei Mihai is a geophysicist and founder of ZME Science. He has a Ph.D. in geophysics and archaeology and has completed courses from prestigious universities (with programs ranging from climate and astronomy to chemistry and geology). He is passionate about making research more accessible to everyone and communicating news and features to a broad audience.

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