Effects Of Drugs And Alcohol On Spider Webs
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I dont find many things funny. I read the whats the funniest film thread and then watched life of brian, amusing but not not laugh out loud funny.
Bored I was surfing break.com and found this
http://www.break.com/index/effect_of_drugs_and_alc...
Bored I was surfing break.com and found this
http://www.break.com/index/effect_of_drugs_and_alc...
This is a repost.
In fact, it's very old indeed. I actually remember my psychology tutor at college telling me in detail about a specific peer-reviewed paper where spiders were given LSD, and made characteristically regular webs with fewer flaws than 'normal' spiders.
This research was done in 1954 IIRC. It's become an urban legend on the internet with lots of misinformation, but the real data is out there somewhere. Similar research was followed up in the 70s by NASA who thought the quality of spider web construction whilst on drugs would be a decent analogue of the drug's toxicity - I reckon they were just having a laugh. That set of experiments was the source of the photos on the net of 'spiders on benzedrine', 'spiders on LSD', 'spiders on caffeine', 'spiders on chloral hydrate', etc. The chloral hydrate gives the date away since it hasn't been used as a hypnotic regularly since first barbiturates and then benzodiazepines became developed. But the original research was well before that.
I guess someone decided to make a joke video some time later.
In fact, it's very old indeed. I actually remember my psychology tutor at college telling me in detail about a specific peer-reviewed paper where spiders were given LSD, and made characteristically regular webs with fewer flaws than 'normal' spiders.
This research was done in 1954 IIRC. It's become an urban legend on the internet with lots of misinformation, but the real data is out there somewhere. Similar research was followed up in the 70s by NASA who thought the quality of spider web construction whilst on drugs would be a decent analogue of the drug's toxicity - I reckon they were just having a laugh. That set of experiments was the source of the photos on the net of 'spiders on benzedrine', 'spiders on LSD', 'spiders on caffeine', 'spiders on chloral hydrate', etc. The chloral hydrate gives the date away since it hasn't been used as a hypnotic regularly since first barbiturates and then benzodiazepines became developed. But the original research was well before that.
I guess someone decided to make a joke video some time later.
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