TIL in 1995 NASA tested psychoactive compounds on spiders. Each drug affected their web patterns differently.
Here's a more detailed description for those that like to read up: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experiment/
Curiously enough when a similar experiment was first performed decades earlier the original intent was to get the spiders to weave their webs during different times of the day, rather than alter the pattern.
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Here's a short video talking about the results of this experiment, and how each spider reacted to the different drugs.
"building webs is fo suckas"
I will never not watch that video.
I only came in here to make sure this was posted. I don't even have to click the link to know it's the right video.
Very educational, thanks for sharing!
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I mean, I think they did great. If they did those tests on me it would just be four blank panels with a light coating of Dorito dust.
This says nothing about how the dosage was decided.
Yeah, welcome to pre-2000 science. Things were a bit more basic then.
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Apparently microdosing LSD was the only thing that improved web quality.
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Would have been interesting to see what happened with alcohol, ecstacy, cocaine, heroin, etc. The last one might have just been a blank square though.
Caffeine is an insecticide.
Good thing spiders aren’t insects then, I guess?
So all the little bugs inside of me are dead?
RIP little guys.
Can be used as an insecticide.
It can be a poison to humans too - the poison is in the portion, after all.
Even in minute amounts. It's the whole reason plants started producing caffeine. But you have also run into the big flaw in this, what is the portion they are using?