"... On the ground, a spider simply has to let itself drop and gravity will help the long strands of the web fall into place. But when a spider tries this in space it goes nowhere. Videos of Esmeralda show her starting to make a typical half circle but then all of a sudden her path will become circular as she tries to figure out how to make the main part of the web.
If you watch the time-lapse until the end, you can see Esmeralda capture and eat her first fly of the day. Countryman's videos are revealing that the flies are propagating much more than on Earth, something that hasn't been documented previously. Perhaps that explains why the spiders have been getting so big!"
From
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/06/time-lapse-tuesday-spiders-in-space.html and
http://videosift.com/video/Cat-Space-Odyssey?loadcomm=1#comment-1240069 (thanks Raverman!).
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