And from the TV , while they are at it. Strangely to me, there seem to be plenty of people interested in knowing about them and about their daily lives.Astronuc said:
lisab said:
Send him to me, I really want a tarantula!Psinter said:There's a huge spider in my window. About 8 inches diameter I would approximate. I'm sleepy, but I ain't closing my eyes no matter what. ~7 hours until the sun comes out. ~7 hours I must not close my eyes.
EDIT: Either that or I go out to kill it. But I dare not take such a mission. It's been raining a lot and I bet there are other fouler creatures than spiders, that got their nests flooded, waiting for me on the outside.
EDIT2:
I think it's valid syntax. I think the discomfort is because an impact is an event, something at a point in time. An impactor or a destroyer is an entity with some kind of extent in time. It makes sense to draw a parallel between a person and another entity, but not so much between a person and an event.zoobyshoe said:
Unless I'm mistaken, that's a female black widow. You may wish to do some research before offering to adopt...Sophia said:
Rather you than me, but at least they don't come with a serious risk of posionous bite...Sophia said:
You're right. It's a conceptual, not grammatical, infelicity.Ibix said:
KILL IT WITH FYRE!Psinter said:
Sophia said:
I cannot possibly relate to such feelings.
But what is on my window is not a black widow. Albeit, I don't think it's a Tarantula either. I once tried to kill one of them monsters and it let some spiderweb out while escaping from me and Tarantulas from my place have no spiderweb. And they also move slower, the one on my window is blazing fast which makes it more scary. *shivers* They are so fast that you blink and the next thing you find is that it magically disappeared from the scene. The sun is finally outIbix said:
and I've been camping all night. Plus just took some pills for the allergy I have. The pills makes you sleepy so bye bye. 
My thought exactly.nuuskur said:
Don't, it'll be too hot. Spiders will also die when their legs are broken. Huhahhaanuuskur said:
I didn't eve know (some) spiders were poisonous.fresh_42 said:
AFAIK all are. However, most of them come in homeopathic doses or cannot overcome our skin.WWGD said:
Because it is not the universe, but the multiverse.OmCheeto said:Ah! Hahahahahaha!
I know you don't believe in psychic mumbo jumbo, but I think it's funny how we joined PF within a 48 hours of each other, and the universe is still trying to keep us in touch.
fresh_42 said:
And why do we all have two numbers now?Lisa! said:This OP ribbon looks better than starter ribbon!
Enlighten me.OmCheeto said:Ah ha! The Sally Field count.
"Likes."zoobyshoe said:
Yes, but why Sally Field count? Om likes Sally Field?Bystander said:
Ibix said:
Yeah, I needed a clue. At first I was thinking she played some role that had to do with counting, but that got me nowhere.Ibix said:
Spiders are nothing but ultimate evil! Sorry, but we can't be friends.Sophia said:
I'm just kidding with you.Sophia said:
Sirsh said:
collinsmark said:Surprisingly, no; it would be a less than ideal assumption. (On small scales that is)
Wind on the surface of the Earth has a large amount of localized behavior. Don't forget that with most any system of airflow on scales less than around 100 km, it not only involves lateral direction, but also vertical directions at elevations higher than the surface itself: At elevations above ground sometimes the wind blows up and sometimes down!
And with that, the wind patterns form [3 dimensional] chaotic, pseudo-fractal type structures. The largest systems are the prevailing winds. Within the prevailing winds there substructures of high and low pressure centers that interact with each other to form even smaller structures with their own wind patterns. And within those smaller structures there are even smaller structures than that. [Edit: and the strength these different levels vary too, depending on other conditions, meaning some days there will be steady winds and other days nothing but gusts.]
The end result is, on a gusty day, that even though you might feel a strong breeze blowing, that breeze might not exist or might be in a completely different direction as little as a 100 meters away or so.
And these small patches are moving too. So they are not just localized in space, but they are themselves moving a little in space as time progresses.
That doesn't surprise me, particularly since you are moving. You might be moving through one small, localized thermal and into another small system.
The concept is very important to sailing, and in particular sail-boat racing. In highly competitive sailboat racing it is not uncommon for a crew member to climb up the mast (even part way) to inspect the nearby areas of water. Patches of water that are less reflective (due to increased ripples) give an indication of where the wind is. Much of sailboat racing is a struggle to find those small patches of wind.
This is random thoughts, if you have an interest in the topic, I suggest that you start a thread in the proper forum to discuss it.Sirsh said: