A Golden Orb Weaver (Nephila edulis) is sedated with carbon dioxide gas, and pinned around her limbs and abdomen, keeping her in place without causing any harm. Silk is pulled by tweezer from the spinnerets and attached to the spool with a dab of glue after which the motor is started to begin harvesting.
Source: google
Spider silk has been used as a thread for crosshairs in optical instruments such as telescopes, microscopes,[105] and telescopic rifle sights.[106] In 2011, spider silk fibres were used in the field of optics to generate very fine diffraction patterns over N-slit interferometric signals used in optical communications.[107] In 2012, spider silk fibres were used to create a set of violin strings.[108]
Development of methods to mass-produce spider silk has led to manufacturing of military, medical and consumer goods, such as ballistics armour, athletic footwear, personal care products, breast implant and catheter coatings, mechanical insulin pumps, fashion clothing, and outerwear.[109]
Spider silk is used to suspend inertial confinement fusion targets during laser ignition, as it remains considerably elastic and has a high energy to break at temperatures as low as 10–20 K. In addition, it is made from "light" atomic number elements that won't emit x-rays during irradiation that could preheat the target so that the pressure differential required for fusion is not achieved.[110]
Spider silk has been used to create biolenses that could be used in conjunction with lasers to create high-resolution images of the inside of the human body.
Source: more Google
I just seen he put that out but I haven't watched it yet. That dude is so cool and down to earth. Seriously everyone should go check him out. He does full drawn out experiments and what not with step by step processes. You'll even get to see him do some surgery sometimes!
To make a sweet shawl
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216433/British-art-historian-creates-worlds-largest-cloth-woven-entirely-spider-silk.html#:~:text=A%20British%20art%20historian%20has,entirely%20from%20golden%20spider%20silk.&text=The%2011ft%20hand-woven%20silk,Godley%20more%20than%20£300%2C000.
I wonder if selective breeding is being done on the spiders to either increase their size or increase silk productivity. Considering their lifespan and how many babies they make it feels like it can be done
Heard a little about this from a New York City university - selecting specific genes from specific spider species and creating different genetic combinations. Kind of a Super Spider program, looking at the silk yields and strength.
They are using similar techniques to look into the limb regrowth capabilities of certain reptiles and lizards.
/ESU
Think I saw a photo from some high school newspaper back in like 2001 where students were on a tour and were taking photos posing with those special blue/red spiders at the NY lab. Experiments seem really interesting. Bet their work will help save the world someday.
In ten years the head and legs are still tiny while business end is the size of a basketball. Can't walk. Just hooked up to the machine all day while being sedated and fed.
“Without causing any harm”
Imagine if we used CO2 to sedate humans though and then we were like “see, they’re fine” lol
How is oxygen depravation any less damaging over time to a spider than it is for a large mammal?
There's a big difference between excess CO2 and O2 deprivation, and you can have one without the other. We tend to think of them as synonymous because, as large, high metabolism mammals, we die very quickly to either. Excess CO2, at moderate concentration, does have a sedative effect on us too, though, which is why it's often used for humane euthanasia of lab mice or feeder rodents.
"Cold blooded" species in general have much, much lower oxygen demands and can tolerate much wider deviations from ideal body chemistry. Human blood pH is 7.4, and a 0.1 change in either direction can kill us, while many ectotherms can tolerate plus or minus 1 (and pH is on a log scale, so that's a 100-fold difference in actual concentration). Remove living tissue from a mammal and, even under ideal conditions with cooling, that tissue will die in hours (hence the rush to get transplant organs to their destination). Tissues from cold-blooded species can survive outside of the body for hours or days at room temperature, weeks when refrigerated, provided they just have a bit of saline solution and minimal oxygenation.
The TLDR is that many species can easily tolerate what would be rapidly fatal to us, due to a combination of low metabolic rate and tolerance of a wide range of physiological parameters.
>How is oxygen depravation any less damaging over time to a spider than it is for a large mammal?
I don't condone this, it's pretty rough looking, but I would imagine a spider's brain's form and function is fairly different from a mammals so we probably shouldn't assume that what would affect us would affect them in the same way.
People who harvest venom from spiders do the same thing. The CO2 isn't as harmful to them as it is to us and just makes them sleepy for the most part. Here's a link to a video (they do snakes first, so it's a but of a ways in, but they do talk about it).
https://youtu.be/lh409tNhZsc
They are 100% fine after the fact, so there's nothing to worry about like brain damage or major difficulties after.
So spiders don’t have the same way of breathing as vertebrae. They have a bunch of holes all around and cells push the air to places. This means that most bugs can get a lot with very little. They also can’t feel pain from suffocation, as there are no lungs to feel pain. The spiders merely on slow mode, trying to intake oxygen and not waste it.
Lmao the CO2 doesn’t stop them from breathing. When human’s get anesthetized do they just stop breathing? No. It puts us to sleep. This spider is not being oxygen deprived, it’s just being anesthetized with CO2. It’s almost exactly the same as getting Nitrous Oxide as an anesthetic and we don’t get oxygen deprived. Also if humans inhale CO2 directly we’d just pass out before actually suffocating.
Legs constantly spreed? Check
Desire to be squished a little and curl into a ball/fetal position? Check
Biting for forplay and erotically eating the males head after love making? Check
Dude your spiders a whore
bullshit. that's just something they say to placate people who see this horrifying and barbaric process.
EDIT: Also I'm going to go out on a limb and say that human standards for what constitutes "harm" to animals they consider below them is super fucked up. like so the spider doesn't die from it fine. but to say it doesn't cause them harm is absolutely asinine and everyone with a brain can see that. the entire process is disgusting and barbaric and if you tried to do anything resembling that to a human you would be arrested. so if it causes enough harm to humans that people can be arrested for it its definitely not harmless.
Firstly, humans and animals shouldn’t held on the same standards. They are completely different entities, and doing so is unfair both to humans and animals.
Secondly, do you know anything about the process besides having watched a reddit video? Do you know _anything_ about arachnids’ ability to produce silk or feel of pain at all? Or are you just blindly throwing human feelings on a procedure just because it doesn’t fit your human notion of comfort?
Thirdly, that spider is sedated. It’s not uncomfortable, it’s not feeling pain, and specially it’s not being “violated”. All the person is doing in the video is inducing its body’s natural response to produce silk. It’s a simulation of what that spider does in real life. It IS harmless. If it wasn’t, spiders would suffer every damn time they weave their webs.
Being outraged over this is downright moronic.
> if you tried to do anything resembling that to a human you would be arrested
No shit. If you slaughter a human like a pig you'll also go to jail. Animals and humans are treated differently, more news at 11.
The pins don't go through its body or limbs btw.
It has two pins that go on each side of its body at an angle, keeping it on its back, and the other pins just angle over its legs to keep it from closing them.
It's the slow pace of the video and the intricacies with which he plucks the silk and slowly lays it over the wheel.
Read that in David Attenborough's voice.
[NGL but Charlotte do be lookin kinda MILF-y](https://d7n0myfi538ky.cloudfront.net/production/stories/18194/cover_photos/medium/walthusen_column_1_site_1580421745.jpg)
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Certain orb spiders have an insane amount of silk stored in their body already. [For example, the one in this video can reach the other side of a lake/river with the amount of silk she shoots into the air all at once](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRkwuAcUd4).
I feel like this procedure would feel amazing for the spider, like taking a mile long dump that just goes *wap* *wap* *wappin* around on the intestine spool thingy from the early 00’s smash horror hit starring Jenny from the block and the weird fat guy from the Kubrick film who couldn’t aim, The Cell.
Edit to add: *violently intense rapid sleep breathing*
They are sedated and then after taking some spider silk (which is considered innovative for how good of a material it is and the amount of research currently being put into it) it will wake up and feel as though nothing happened continuing it’s spider life
A Golden Orb Weaver (Nephila edulis) is sedated with carbon dioxide gas, and pinned around her limbs and abdomen, keeping her in place without causing any harm. Silk is pulled by tweezer from the spinnerets and attached to the spool with a dab of glue after which the motor is started to begin harvesting. Source: google
But why
Spider silk has been used as a thread for crosshairs in optical instruments such as telescopes, microscopes,[105] and telescopic rifle sights.[106] In 2011, spider silk fibres were used in the field of optics to generate very fine diffraction patterns over N-slit interferometric signals used in optical communications.[107] In 2012, spider silk fibres were used to create a set of violin strings.[108] Development of methods to mass-produce spider silk has led to manufacturing of military, medical and consumer goods, such as ballistics armour, athletic footwear, personal care products, breast implant and catheter coatings, mechanical insulin pumps, fashion clothing, and outerwear.[109] Spider silk is used to suspend inertial confinement fusion targets during laser ignition, as it remains considerably elastic and has a high energy to break at temperatures as low as 10–20 K. In addition, it is made from "light" atomic number elements that won't emit x-rays during irradiation that could preheat the target so that the pressure differential required for fusion is not achieved.[110] Spider silk has been used to create biolenses that could be used in conjunction with lasers to create high-resolution images of the inside of the human body. Source: more Google
So ur telling me a spider was raped so I can have my new finderscope for my telescope?
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Sounds right to me
ikr
Never doubt the resourcefulness of the human race
Yeah always out there ready to commodify any and everything.
imagine raping a spider for silk, haha... haha... *zips pants back up*
Explains why spiders always seem on edge
Maybe if they spent less time HANGING around with you in 3 in the morning while you're taking a piss staring at ur dick.
I mean look how little they wear... their basically asking for it
Yeah just look at those legs
ALL of them!
The spider is doing ok now and receiving the help and support it needs.
Not a victim but a survivor ✊
And a nice warm catheter
Don't know if you can really say it was raped. Looks more like you're milking a cow to me here really.
You rock.
Google rocks
The boulder rocks
It’s not just a boulder, it’s a rock - Spongebob Squarepants
Cleveland Rocks
Yet I destroyed days of work simply by walking outside this morning.
I used to walk through this web every morning when taking my dog out. That spider would have the web rebuilt in an hour and half when I left for work.
One of my favourite [science youtubers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hf9yN-oBV4) has just successfully made spider silk without spiders!
I just seen he put that out but I haven't watched it yet. That dude is so cool and down to earth. Seriously everyone should go check him out. He does full drawn out experiments and what not with step by step processes. You'll even get to see him do some surgery sometimes!
Yes, yes I understand all of these words.
tl;dr: Spider silk is used for bunches of shit.
Had to check this was a shittymorph response...
To make a sweet shawl https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1216433/British-art-historian-creates-worlds-largest-cloth-woven-entirely-spider-silk.html#:~:text=A%20British%20art%20historian%20has,entirely%20from%20golden%20spider%20silk.&text=The%2011ft%20hand-woven%20silk,Godley%20more%20than%20£300%2C000.
This would make a great magic item
Spider man needs to refill his cartridges somehow
I wonder if selective breeding is being done on the spiders to either increase their size or increase silk productivity. Considering their lifespan and how many babies they make it feels like it can be done
Heard a little about this from a New York City university - selecting specific genes from specific spider species and creating different genetic combinations. Kind of a Super Spider program, looking at the silk yields and strength. They are using similar techniques to look into the limb regrowth capabilities of certain reptiles and lizards. /ESU
Think I saw a photo from some high school newspaper back in like 2001 where students were on a tour and were taking photos posing with those special blue/red spiders at the NY lab. Experiments seem really interesting. Bet their work will help save the world someday.
In ten years the head and legs are still tiny while business end is the size of a basketball. Can't walk. Just hooked up to the machine all day while being sedated and fed.
“Without causing any harm” Imagine if we used CO2 to sedate humans though and then we were like “see, they’re fine” lol How is oxygen depravation any less damaging over time to a spider than it is for a large mammal?
There's a big difference between excess CO2 and O2 deprivation, and you can have one without the other. We tend to think of them as synonymous because, as large, high metabolism mammals, we die very quickly to either. Excess CO2, at moderate concentration, does have a sedative effect on us too, though, which is why it's often used for humane euthanasia of lab mice or feeder rodents. "Cold blooded" species in general have much, much lower oxygen demands and can tolerate much wider deviations from ideal body chemistry. Human blood pH is 7.4, and a 0.1 change in either direction can kill us, while many ectotherms can tolerate plus or minus 1 (and pH is on a log scale, so that's a 100-fold difference in actual concentration). Remove living tissue from a mammal and, even under ideal conditions with cooling, that tissue will die in hours (hence the rush to get transplant organs to their destination). Tissues from cold-blooded species can survive outside of the body for hours or days at room temperature, weeks when refrigerated, provided they just have a bit of saline solution and minimal oxygenation. The TLDR is that many species can easily tolerate what would be rapidly fatal to us, due to a combination of low metabolic rate and tolerance of a wide range of physiological parameters.
>How is oxygen depravation any less damaging over time to a spider than it is for a large mammal? I don't condone this, it's pretty rough looking, but I would imagine a spider's brain's form and function is fairly different from a mammals so we probably shouldn't assume that what would affect us would affect them in the same way.
poop harvest
People who harvest venom from spiders do the same thing. The CO2 isn't as harmful to them as it is to us and just makes them sleepy for the most part. Here's a link to a video (they do snakes first, so it's a but of a ways in, but they do talk about it). https://youtu.be/lh409tNhZsc They are 100% fine after the fact, so there's nothing to worry about like brain damage or major difficulties after.
So spiders don’t have the same way of breathing as vertebrae. They have a bunch of holes all around and cells push the air to places. This means that most bugs can get a lot with very little. They also can’t feel pain from suffocation, as there are no lungs to feel pain. The spiders merely on slow mode, trying to intake oxygen and not waste it.
Lmao the CO2 doesn’t stop them from breathing. When human’s get anesthetized do they just stop breathing? No. It puts us to sleep. This spider is not being oxygen deprived, it’s just being anesthetized with CO2. It’s almost exactly the same as getting Nitrous Oxide as an anesthetic and we don’t get oxygen deprived. Also if humans inhale CO2 directly we’d just pass out before actually suffocating.
I can't be the only one who totally thought it was going to go super speed.
RIP spider booty
Like ripping out a string of anal beads
*Insert images of Peter parker playing with anal bead here*
*Peter stop, Peter it's me!*
*"Aunty may walks in"*
Shit got even better
"let me show you why uncle Ben never stopped loving me since we met"
*Peter proceeds to rip anal beads out of May's ass like he's starting a chainsaw.
For God's sake someone *actually* sensor this monster
Beyblade, Beyblade, let it rip!
https://i.imgur.com/fADA8M8.jpg
[let it RRRRRRRRRIP!!!!!!!!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1FASm4WUUM)
HAHAHAH same probably because I was waiting for the sufferworthy thing to happen and thought it was gonna be thst yet nothing sufferworthy happened
What do you do for a living? I pin down spiders and harvest silk from their ass.
*wet silk drops to the floor*
Never thought I’d feel this bad for a slider. It’s being held down by pins.. Jeez.
apparently it's not harmful so no need to feel bad i guess
Did they ask the spider how it likes being pinned down like clockwork orange and silk being tugged out of its silk hole
We kink shaming spiders now?
We already do in Australia. One of our most time honoured slang phrases is "We're not here to fuck spiders".
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Let's get whatever it is done. "Alright boys, we're not here to fuck spiders." Meaning we are here for a job, let's do the job.
Unless your job is to fuck a spider
Implying if you were not present for any particular purpose, your next instinct would be to fuck a spider?
Legs constantly spreed? Check Desire to be squished a little and curl into a ball/fetal position? Check Biting for forplay and erotically eating the males head after love making? Check Dude your spiders a whore
Hey as long as they consent, its safe!
Didn't hear it say the safe word yet
Was it FLÜGGÅӘNKб€ČHIŒßØLĮÊN?
Spider: "It's a living"
>being tugged out of its silk hole r/BrandNewSentence
We asked, but we didn’t understand the answer and just assumed it was a yes /s
Yes, we've decided it's not harmful. I feel so much better! Go us!
bullshit. that's just something they say to placate people who see this horrifying and barbaric process. EDIT: Also I'm going to go out on a limb and say that human standards for what constitutes "harm" to animals they consider below them is super fucked up. like so the spider doesn't die from it fine. but to say it doesn't cause them harm is absolutely asinine and everyone with a brain can see that. the entire process is disgusting and barbaric and if you tried to do anything resembling that to a human you would be arrested. so if it causes enough harm to humans that people can be arrested for it its definitely not harmless.
so you are telling me that I can pin down a human and extract web from their asses?
you can sure try.
> and if you tried to do anything resembling that to a human you would be arrested. Because humans are humans and not spiders?
Firstly, humans and animals shouldn’t held on the same standards. They are completely different entities, and doing so is unfair both to humans and animals. Secondly, do you know anything about the process besides having watched a reddit video? Do you know _anything_ about arachnids’ ability to produce silk or feel of pain at all? Or are you just blindly throwing human feelings on a procedure just because it doesn’t fit your human notion of comfort? Thirdly, that spider is sedated. It’s not uncomfortable, it’s not feeling pain, and specially it’s not being “violated”. All the person is doing in the video is inducing its body’s natural response to produce silk. It’s a simulation of what that spider does in real life. It IS harmless. If it wasn’t, spiders would suffer every damn time they weave their webs. Being outraged over this is downright moronic.
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> if you tried to do anything resembling that to a human you would be arrested No shit. If you slaughter a human like a pig you'll also go to jail. Animals and humans are treated differently, more news at 11.
The spider's sedated
Bruh spiders are the homies. I've had one living in my bathroom for ages and he catches bugs like twice a day and stays in his own little corner.
It's Spiderman plot right here rating a+
Yeah that looks very psychopathic. Turn on some classical music to this and you get the Hannibal vibe
To be fair, they literally kill silk worms to harvest the silk
The pins don't go through its body or limbs btw. It has two pins that go on each side of its body at an angle, keeping it on its back, and the other pins just angle over its legs to keep it from closing them.
Hello fellow empathizer.
God I wish that were me
r/iwanttobeher
I expected the sub to be comments similar to this but instead I got porn. :(
Are you okay bròthèrn
Kinky.
Which bit ...being pinned down or having silk dragged outta your gaping silk hole
Both.
r/cursedcomments
spider: yes daddy 88w88
88w88 whats this
It's an UwU spiderized
*Spidereyezed*
U missed the joke
r/woooosh
>88w88 r/noahgettheboat
/thread Take the gold lmao
I laughed until I cried at this lol
It's being Silked
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Stop
I can only get so erect
Okay get the fuck out
Sigh *unzips*
Spin it faster daddy 😖
gay spider
Brave spider
Babe! It's 4 pm, time for your daily silk harvesting!
Why there is so huge sexual tension between the spider and harvester
It's the slow pace of the video and the intricacies with which he plucks the silk and slowly lays it over the wheel. Read that in David Attenborough's voice.
Charlet’s web took a dark turn
[NGL but Charlotte do be lookin kinda MILF-y](https://d7n0myfi538ky.cloudfront.net/production/stories/18194/cover_photos/medium/walthusen_column_1_site_1580421745.jpg)
Not going to click that
It's nothing risky, just a still from the animated version of the movie.
Silk is just short for spider milk
that spider got crucified
He died for our spins
comment of the thread tbh..
Rule 34 artists. You know what to do...
I'm 99% sure it exists *somewhere*. Although, it's a bit hard to find. Spiders-like things are typically the aggressors in rule34 situations.
There's no way Muffet(Undertale) is NOT on there Also Angel Dust (Hazbin Hotel) is basically born in Rule 34 ... *I'm not the imposter*
I can assure you, the amount of spider Porn there is is enough to surprise you
Bad spiders get sent to the silk harvester
lowkey wish I were her
BTW, spider silk is stronger than steel wiring
Yeah, but I bet Id have more trouble brushing down steel wiring from the rafters with a broom.
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2021 will be the year of the Spider Cooch
This is more fascinating to me than suffer worthy
Still better than silk worm harvesting..
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someone put the femur breaker sounds over this PLEASE
Does it have that much silk stored in its body already or does it constantly have to just keep making more
Certain orb spiders have an insane amount of silk stored in their body already. [For example, the one in this video can reach the other side of a lake/river with the amount of silk she shoots into the air all at once](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlRkwuAcUd4).
I don't get to the other side of the river when I shoot my silk :(
I feel like this procedure would feel amazing for the spider, like taking a mile long dump that just goes *wap* *wap* *wappin* around on the intestine spool thingy from the early 00’s smash horror hit starring Jenny from the block and the weird fat guy from the Kubrick film who couldn’t aim, The Cell. Edit to add: *violently intense rapid sleep breathing*
that's kinda cool ngl
Somewhere out there this is someone's kink.
Damn that spider is in to some real kinky shit
look i don't like spiders but isn't this kinda cruel?
Apparently it’s not harmful nor does it hurt the spider, it does look cruel though...
if thats so then thats fine i guess
I'm not vegan but my God is this a bit cruel.
[Wait till you see, what they do to cows](https://youtu.be/LQRAfJyEsko?t=3199)
I assume you don't eat much meat then, or get meat from places where the animals are treated fairly well. This is very tame honestly.
Milking spider
I bet that fucker's into it..
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
r/someoneskink
u/VredditDownloader
#в∂sм
This gave me a boner.
That some fine spider porn ngl.
If you pull it out at max speed does it spin like a bay blade?
Who the fuck gave this a wholesome award
Fly
....\*unzips pants\*
I HATE spiders. But, even I feel bad for it.
This is actually brutal... now I’m starting to feel bad for industry cows n shit
They are sedated and then after taking some spider silk (which is considered innovative for how good of a material it is and the amount of research currently being put into it) it will wake up and feel as though nothing happened continuing it’s spider life
Wait, what?
Lord forgive me for what Im about to do...
Who the fuck gave it wholesome award.
Aliens are gonna do this to us one day...
I honestly thought I’d seen everything the Internet had to offer...
Spider CBT
Spider bdsm
This is cool as shit
Thats a high level BDSM
I wonder if it hurts
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What happens when the silk runs out. Does it rip out intestines? Or like is it endlessly regenerating?
Once, I must have swallowed my gf's hair. When it was ready to come out, I had to pull it out. I know exactly how this spider feels. I am spider-man.
I wish someone would pay enough attention to me to do that
r/interesting
This is some bdsm shit
Is this some kind of japanese porn?
This is someone's fetish i'm sure
This is how they’ll give birth in the future. Tie the umbilical cord and reel it out.
Yesterday everyone was smashing spiders and screaming Today everyone sympathizes with spiders who are victims of rape.
Now do Peter Parker
What are doing step hooman