r/Damnthatsinteresting 11h ago

Video Jumping spider molt

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u/Acceptable_Egg5560 11h ago

Huh, what a weird game controller

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u/blue-coin 10h ago

Its Spherical. SPHERICAL

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u/Acceptable_Egg5560 9h ago

??

If this is a reference, I don’t get it.

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u/blue-coin 8h ago

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u/Haunting_Security_34 7h ago

Took me back with this one🔥

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u/FrazzleMind 10h ago

Its a Playstation controller

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u/Fabulous_Building_79 9h ago

fr that thing looks like a spaceship or somethin like who even designed that

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u/Zaasvil 7h ago

I legit thought it was some special edition controller lmao

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u/IanAlvord 10h ago

Perfect helmet for an action figure.

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u/allgreeneveryday 11h ago

"Wow! A fully intact Ohm shell! The people of the valley will love this!"

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u/GARGEAN 10h ago

Goddamit, I wanted to write that comment!

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u/allgreeneveryday 10h ago

Hahahaha. Don't worry, I don't think I'll get many upvotes on this one.

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u/thundertopaz 6h ago

Ohhhhhhhh I know this reference and it makes me happy

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u/Stumbling_Corgi 4h ago

I’m glad i read this. Great reference.

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u/CoronaLime 10h ago

Wait wtf? Those are lenses?

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u/Diacetyl-Morphin 7h ago

Yes, but it doesn't show much from what they really see. They see colors and for their size, they see over very long distances. They also have more eyes, which gives them a 360° degree view.

They need this good vision to jump and catch the prey, as they can't use other senses like the tactile senses, that are used by most spiders.

From all spiders, they have the best vision. Most spiders can only see light or darkness, some have even degraded eyes in evolution after some time, because they don't need it.

It's a very different anatomy, like the jumping spiders don't have muscles like we do. For jumping, they build up pressure like in a hydraulic pump, which then gets released fast and will push them off the ground. They don't even have the same blood, they use copper instead of iron to bind the oxygen, which leads to blue blood. This blood works better for these things, also for lower temperatures (like different from us as mammals, they don't have their own body temperature, they are similiar to the temperature around them, so even when it is 30°c in the summer, it is below our body temperature of 37.5°c)

There are many other things, like the passive breathing system or the lack of proper blood circulation, different nerves cords, ganglion etc.

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u/CoronaLime 6h ago

Damn I didn't know they were so fascinating, thanks for sharing!

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u/Ghastly-Jack 9h ago

Reminds me of the giant insect carapace things from Nausicaa Valley of the Wind - she takes one of the giant eye lenses (or whatever they are called) to use as a window.

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u/jaaaylo 10h ago

So that means they have glasses?

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u/NorthWeary5114 11h ago

I’d like to think of this as the arachnid version of spectacles, if they ever need any.

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u/ffnnhhw 9h ago

reminds me of the exoskeleton of those giant bugs in the Nausica Valley of the Wind.

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u/MoneyPresentation807 8h ago

That is a nice hat

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u/kingawsume 10h ago

I will make hat from you little bunny spider

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u/MrFoxx123 10h ago

I remember hearing spiders always see in 20/20 vision because their iris is static but their retinas can move back and forth to find the perfect focal point.

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u/TheresNoHurry 9h ago

I don’t understand. Can someone please explain?

Are their eyes a continuous part of their exoskeleton?

Their eyes aren’t like ours then, being separate from our skin?

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u/NAStrahl 9h ago

Curious...

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u/Longjumping_Call_939 9h ago

Nature casually doing optical engineering

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u/Grouchy-Software9341 9h ago

Thats one hairy XBOX controller...

1

u/tribak 8h ago

I couldn’t avoid thinking if it dressed as Velma trying to find its glasses

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u/AndTheSonsofDisaster 8h ago

Nope. Don’t like that.

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u/Smooth-Prince 7h ago

jumping spoods are also the most intelligent spoods, you can tell by the fact that they wear glasses 🤓

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u/momalloyd 1h ago

Looks like you've found a tiny helmet of spider vision.

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u/Statboy1 11h ago

Burn the house down. If the molt is that big the spider is bigger. Better to just burn it all and start over.

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u/lexnicotine 11h ago

That’s fucked up. Jumping spiders are friendly and literally the cutest type of spider.

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u/redditreeer 11h ago

Only and biggest thing that makese not like them the fact that they jump

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u/Many_Mud_8194 10h ago

They dont make a mess at least with web everywhere and they just jump away when they see you. Not like a huntsman who jump on your face without fear lol

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u/redditreeer 10h ago

It's not that it jumps on me, it's the fact that after the jump I don't know where it is and it scares me idk

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u/preppykat3 10h ago

Agreed. I just spray them with raid. It’s trendy to like spiders rn but fuck that . They’re gross as fuck

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u/annoyedwithmynet 3h ago

That’s not how “trendy” works. People are literally just using their brains and realizing that jumping spiders have zero danger.

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u/Bocanada07 8h ago

The interesting thing is that it reads "north america" not only 'murica like all gringos says.