What is it about spiders, especially black shiny ones, that brings out the ICK factor and the OOG factor. I'd rather deal with the guy on the left, and I really don't want to do that at all. There's something about radial symmetry - having lots of legs in a radial pattern that is somehow frightening to our brains, I think. Remember the fence around the forbidden lands in Planet of the Apes? It looked like big spiders to me and scared me as a kid.
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Aremel@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
That guy on the left being the size of a crocodile is a terrifying thought.
LouisGarbuor@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y
If it makes it any better, it would be a sort of small crocodile, at "only" 8 feet (2.6 meters ish ish) long.
RogueBanana@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 2y
That made it worse, I didn't knew crocodiles were that big
9bananas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
crocodiles actually get much bigger than that...think record is somewhere about 7m and about 1.1 metric tonnes!
Num10ck@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
the chitin shell would made a sweet roofing material
Dkarma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Nord
Dkarma@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Yeah it really puts into perspective the massive predators at the time who ate these things. No wonder they could get so big.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 2y
spooder ist fren
FlorianSimon@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
tygerprints@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
What is it about spiders, especially black shiny ones, that brings out the ICK factor and the OOG factor. I'd rather deal with the guy on the left, and I really don't want to do that at all. There's something about radial symmetry - having lots of legs in a radial pattern that is somehow frightening to our brains, I think. Remember the fence around the forbidden lands in Planet of the Apes? It looked like big spiders to me and scared me as a kid.
kbal@fedia.io · 0 pts · 2y
... the Arthropods! (cue laughter)