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Spiders Rain from Clear Sky

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Yazata Offline
Here's another one of those animal-fall reports, this time from Australia. Little immature spiders are reportedly raining from the sky, annoying many residents.

This one has a more mundane explanation than many of these animal-fall anomalies. Young spiders are sometimes known to migrate by air, floating on the breeze with little sails that they spin from spider web. They can travel for long distances this way. It's one way that spiders distribute themselves around the environment. The web-sails, abandoned on the ground in large numbers, have sometimes been referred to as 'angel hair'.

http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/sp...49514.html
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Magical Realist Offline
I'm arachnophobic, but only regarding a very specific kind of spider--the big hairy type. or wolf spiders, or St. Andrews Cross spiders. Operative trait here: BIG! A rain of baby spiders would not freak me out, but I'd still be lookin for big mama out of the corner of my eye.


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stryder Offline
I've not shared this with anyone, but back in about 1998 I was working on a not particular well written idea for using minibot hives. The idea was based that rather than using a large robot lander for mapping another planet, that it would be possible to land a hive on the surface of one. From that hive small bots would wander out much like ants from a nest.

I'd considered that if the bots had a specific energy reserve that there is the obvious point of return boundary, a range however if they were designed correctly they could actually go beyond that boundary and attempt to "tow" other bots back if given aid by a sufficient number of extra bots. Obviously at some point though it would become exponential in the sense that there would be more bots needing a tow than being able to tow.

I'd also considered how the bots themselves wouldn't attempt to have multiple sensory systems each but specialise in sensory systems, so one might handle observation better than another that might listen or touch etc.

That was what I was considering, however that's not what this anecdote is about, what this anecdote is about is a rather strange occurrence (One you might be able to get to grips with MR)

While I was sat in front of the computer further contemplating that hive system, I spotted a black "spider" on my desk next to the keyboard. I'm not one for squishing spiders or harming them, but I was intrigued because it was unlike any spider I had seen before. So I looked at it closer.

From what I saw it wasn't a real spider, it looked artificial. The spider had 3 segments to it's body (head, mid section and abdominal section), it didn't have any mandibles, it only had two beady black eyes. It's skin was sleek black much like the black plastics that get used to make keyboards and controllers etc.
It had two "antlers", which were bright red and looked like the material used as the protective coating for capacitors. (they in fact looked like they had been "nipped" into place, a bit like how pasties are nipped) They were like red ovals on the bottom part of an inverse 'L' mirrored on both sides of it's head.
It's legs didn't have any hairs on them, they were sleek black too like the body. (The head and body segments were all a cross between a cube without the corners, not an oval)

I "danced" on my desk, walking from side to side like a crab walks waving it's front two legs in both the up and down positions like it was creating a dance. It was obviously getting my attention, I wondered at the time if it was doing it as a defense mechanism. While indeed it was a weird sight, I admittedly ignored it to go get a coffee.

On returning (five minutes later) it was no longer on my desk, instead it was about 15ft away on top of a steel filing cabinet doing the same little dance.

Again I chose to ignore it (to be honest I was a little wary of it), and I've regretted doing so since. I should of picked it up and put it in a jar. I know it wasn't a spider, I actually considered that it might have been a bug of the intelligence kind, perhaps industrial espionage. I had been dealing with the schematics/CAD designs and R&D to a patented variable flare system so it might of been that someone checking out what that was about.

In any event to this day no one ever came forwards to suggest they were spying and I've never seen any technologies remotely come close to recreating what I saw.

I assume it was man made from the fact that spiders need mandibles to eat, they tend to only have two body segments, they tend to have hairy legs and eight eyes... all in all what I saw was definitely not a spider.
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Magical Realist Offline
(May 16, 2015 08:22 PM)stryder Wrote: I've not shared this with anyone, but back in about 1998 I was working on a not particular well written idea for using minibot hives.  The idea was based that rather than using a large robot lander for mapping another planet, that it would be possible to land a hive on the surface of one.  From that hive small bots would wander out much like ants from a nest.  

I'd considered that if the bots had a specific energy reserve that there is the obvious point of return boundary, a range however if they were designed correctly they could actually go beyond that boundary and attempt to "tow" other bots back if given aid by a sufficient number of extra bots. Obviously at some point though it would become exponential in the sense that there would be more bots needing a tow than being able to tow.

I'd also considered how the bots themselves wouldn't attempt to have multiple sensory systems each but specialise in sensory systems, so one might handle observation better than another that might listen or touch etc.

That was what I was considering, however that's not what this anecdote is about, what this anecdote is about is a rather strange occurrence (One you might be able to get to grips with MR)

While I was sat in front of the computer further contemplating that hive system, I spotted a black "spider" on my desk next to the keyboard.  I'm not one for squishing spiders or harming them, but I was intrigued because it was unlike any spider I had seen before.  So I looked at it closer.

From what I saw it wasn't a real spider, it looked artificial.  The spider had 3 segments to it's body (head, mid section and abdominal section), it didn't have any mandibles, it only had two beady black eyes.  It's skin was sleek black much like the black plastics that get used to make keyboards and controllers etc.
It had two "antlers", which were bright red and looked like the material used as the protective coating for capacitors. (they in fact looked like they had been "nipped" into place, a bit like how pasties are nipped) They were like red ovals on the bottom part of an inverse 'L' mirrored on both sides of it's head.
It's legs didn't have any hairs on them, they were sleek black too like the body.  (The head and body segments were all a cross between a cube without the corners, not an oval)

I "danced" on my desk, walking from side to side like a crab walks waving it's front two legs in both the up and down positions like it was creating a dance.  It was obviously getting my attention, I wondered at the time if it was doing it as a defense mechanism.  While indeed it was a weird sight, I admittedly ignored it to go get a coffee.  

On returning (five minutes later) it was no longer on my desk, instead it was about 15ft away on top of a steel filing cabinet doing the same little dance.

Again I chose to ignore it (to be honest I was a little wary of it), and I've regretted doing so since.  I should of picked it up and put it in a jar.  I know it wasn't a spider, I actually considered that it might have been a bug of the intelligence kind, perhaps industrial espionage.  I had been dealing with the schematics/CAD designs and R&D to a patented variable flare system so it might of been that someone checking out what that was about.

In any event to this day no one ever came forwards to suggest they were spying and I've never seen any technologies remotely come close to recreating what I saw.

I assume it was man made from the fact that spiders need mandibles to eat, they tend to only have two body segments, they tend to have hairy legs and eight eyes... all in all what I saw was definitely not a spider.
That's very interesting. If it was spyware, I wonder why it was trying to get your attention. Even more disturbing, if it was a real spider, I wonder why it was trying to get your attention!
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stryder Offline
(May 17, 2015 12:47 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: That's very interesting. If it was spyware, I wonder why it was trying to get your attention. Even more disturbing, if it was a real spider, I wonder why it was trying to get your attention!
There is two possibilities. 

One is I saw a very hightech gadget/bug that might or might not have been shipped into the company with a delivery of parts.  Having it draw attention to itselfs would of likely reduced it's chances of being damaged or destroyed, after all I ended up studying it.

The other is actually about the attempted manipulation of an artificial memory.  If I wrote vast articles about this phenomena  and treat it as being an absolute fact, then it proves that injecting imagery into peoples sleep states could possibly generate false positives.  If some clandestine group was operating such a system any form of pressed sensationalism treating it as a fact would be a "success" for their operation.  (It makes me wonder if this was/is the case, how many people might wake up after swearing they've had conversations with people were something was said that they didn't like, that never actually took place.  Worse still how many times have people potentially acted upon their memories as being true and commited acts of violence in retaliation for something that never happened in the first place?)

I don't have any doubt that it will either be a false memory or an actual experience, but it's not something hallucinated or lied about.
(In fact the potential evidence for it being a false memory is that if I try to draw it, I can't from my initial observation as my memory nowadays has long sinced been broken down into meta-variables and re-cloned multiple times over.  (I don't have the original memory but a copy of a copy of a outline)
So for instance remembering where the legs connected to the body or how the antlers were attached to the head
 is actually missing.

 (Consider if while asleep you are fed slides of data, images with certain facts being presented to be etched into your mind.  However in this case the person that put the slides together missed some "unimportant" bits out which they considered not noteworthy.  Those unimportant bits are actually the only way you would ever clue in on the deception where there is breaks in continuity.)
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