Baby spiders fly because of electric fields

1. 2018-07-10 at 2:09 PM UTC

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   Cootehill African Astronaut [my unsymmetrically blurry oregano]
   Basically their silk works with something called the atmospheric potential gradient, and can enable them to reach heights of 4km so dispersing over a wide area. Paper has a nice discussion on the APG.
   https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30693-6
2. 2018-07-10 at 2:17 PM UTC

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   I always thought it was air currents that were responsible. Surely air currents are still the dominant factor, no?
3. 2018-07-10 at 2:34 PM UTC

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   tje2607 Houston [issue my leonine harrier]
   I thought is was little men or something
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4. 2018-07-10 at 2:36 PM UTC

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   Glokula's Homabla African Astronaut
   i thought they used nigger magic
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5. 2018-07-10 at 3:20 PM UTC

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   tje2607 Houston [issue my leonine harrier]

   Originally posted by Glokula's Homabla i thought they used nigger magic

   
   Is bigger magic and black magic the same?
6. 2018-07-10 at 5:08 PM UTC

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   benny vader YELLOW GHOST
   so ???
7. 2018-07-10 at 11:40 PM UTC

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   -SpectraL coward [the spuriously bluish-lilac bushman]
   They sail on dark matter, undiscovered sub-atomic particles.
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8. 2018-08-22 at 3:43 PM UTC

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   Jiggaboo_Johnson Black Hole

   Originally posted by Glokula's Homabla i thought they used nigger magic

   
   Electricity is magic to a nigger.
9. 2018-08-22 at 3:45 PM UTC

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   RisiR † 29 Autism

   Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Electricity is magic to a nigger.

   
   Do you understand it?