15 Shocking Discoveries Worldwide That Will Leave You Speechless!

In 2008 NASA had an intriguing question

how do spiders construct their webs in

zero gravity therefore they sent two

spiders to the International Space

Station the first spider was the main

participant while the second served as a

backup in case the first one didn't

survive however things didn't go

according to plan the backup spider

managed to escape from its chamber and

visited its companion resulting in a bit

of a mess they built tangled webs that

interfered with each other as if that

wasn't enough the flies that were

supposed to be food for the spiders

started reproducing faster than

anticipated their larv escaped from

their container and covered the front

window of the chamber over time the

spiders were completely hidden behind

the larv although this initial

repeat the same

experiment this time she sought

assistance from other researchers they

decided to send a different species of

spider into space and prepared four

spiders two for the ISS and two for

Earth allowing for result comparison the

goal was to expose the spiders to

varying gravity conditions and observe

their

behavior however another twist appeared

in the story initially they believed

they had four female spiders but it

turned out that two of them were

actually

males determining the sex of young

spiders can be tricky but fortunately

one male had already been sent to space

while the other remained on Earth

enabling valuable data

collection the second experiment proved

successful the spiders were active they

built and dismantled webs and even

without the assistance of gravity they

spun new ones three cameras captured

thousands of pictures showcasing their

hard work on the

webs interestingly it seemed that

spiders created significantly more

symmetrical webs in space than on Earth

the center of the webs was closer to the

middle and surprisingly the spiders

didn't always posit.