Would you step on this?

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

Looney

Lifer
Jun 13, 2000
21,938
5
0
Originally posted by: zbalat
After some google research I have come to the conclusion that that thing is either worth a sh!tload of money (world record) or it's the most realistic looking fake spider ever.

If it's a fake, it's a damn good one... look at the hair on the legs.
 

Eli

Super Moderator | Elite Member
Oct 9, 1999
50,419
8
81
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: lirion
Absolutely not. Think of all the other bugs that thing eats every day! I would shoot it with my camera though;) I think I could get a few decent shots out of it. It looks like an interesting subject.

Lirion, you are the only human being in the world that could take a picture of that THING and make it look beautiful. :)

You haven't posted any of your superior work lately, did I miss it? :)

Note: Lirion has mad skillz with a camera...he could take a picture of a piece of black construction paper and it would look like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. :)
LOL!

Damnit, this is the second time you've made my monitor moist. :Q :p
 

Wallydraigle

Banned
Nov 27, 2000
10,754
1
0
Originally posted by: MichaelD
Originally posted by: lirion
Absolutely not. Think of all the other bugs that thing eats every day! I would shoot it with my camera though;) I think I could get a few decent shots out of it. It looks like an interesting subject.

Lirion, you are the only human being in the world that could take a picture of that THING and make it look beautiful. :)

You haven't posted any of your superior work lately, did I miss it? :)

Note: Lirion has mad skillz with a camera...he could take a picture of a piece of black construction paper and it would look like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. :)


I just haven't been pimping myself so much lately;) There's some new stuff up on here, if you want to take a look. I'm glad you appreciate my work:)
 

notfred

Lifer
Feb 12, 2001
38,241
4
0
I would just let it have the house and move somewhere else.... what if it's raising a family under your bed or in your closet or something? :Q
 

Evadman

Administrator Emeritus<br>Elite Member
Feb 18, 2001
30,990
5
81
I would try to smash it with a brick, but I think the brick would start moving.
 

MichaelD

Lifer
Jan 16, 2001
31,528
3
76
Originally posted by: Evadman
I would try to smash it with a brick, but I think the brick would start moving.

You know darn well the spider would catch the brick with two legs (never flinching from it's menacing stance, BTW) then, it would hurl it right back at you 2x faster than you threw it.

Better call for backup. :Q
 

GroundZero

Diamond Member
Oct 17, 2002
3,669
1
0
get the neighbors chiuahua(sp?) and use it fo bait to get the spider in a 1' thick tank....
 

spanky

Lifer
Jun 19, 2001
25,716
4
81
capture it an ebay it. remember how much that stinkin' oversized cheeto went for? i beat this would own that auction...
 

Slacker

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
8,623
33
91
I caught a pretty good size "Rabid Wolf Spider" in a jar, forgot about him for a couple of weeks and when I noticed the jar sitting there he was dead in a perfectly natural position, I got some casting resin and dropped him in there, polished it up after it set and still have it, a crystal clear 2x1x1 cube with a mean looking spider inside :D
 

Wallydraigle

Banned
Nov 27, 2000
10,754
1
0
Originally posted by: Slacker
I caught a pretty good size "Rabid Wolf Spider" in a jar, forgot about him for a couple of weeks and when I noticed the jar sitting there he was dead in a perfectly natural position, I got some casting resin and dropped him in there, polished it up after it set and still have it, a crystal clear 2x1x1 cube with a mean looking spider inside :D


That would be pretty cool to see.

 

Wallydraigle

Banned
Nov 27, 2000
10,754
1
0
Originally posted by: Phuz
"Rabid Wolf Spider"

Its just... Wolf Spider. aka Dock Spider. We have a lot of those.


There is a species that is sometimes called "rabid wolf spider", Lycosa rabida. The problem with common names is that different ones are used in different locales, or even different people in the same locale.