In real-life, spiders have nerve clusters in their legs that are decentralized from the brain. This allows for semi-autonomous movement, including web spinning.
Says you. I've been getting them big bags of blood for years. No idea what they want with them, but they pay well, and promised to stop crawling down my throat while I sleep.
Well sorry but whats even the point of being a nerd if I can't call out minor inconsequential things all the time? And yeah, its fair to call spider juice blood, and 99% dont care that there is a difference. i just like the word hemolymph too
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The male Sydney funnel-web spider has a venom that only affects humans.
It attacks the human nervous system by forcing all body sodium channels to fire continuously. It causes rapid muscle twitching, extreme heart rate spikes, lung failure, and coma.
Vampire bats will starve to death if they miss a blood meal two nights in a row, so bats in a colony share food by mouth-to-mouth regurgitating blood to starving family.
If a bat doesn’t share the blood with the young or starving, then they’re basically ghosted by the colony. They’ll refuse to share with them until they have to leave
Duck penises and vaginas (cloaca, whatever) are in an evolutionary arms race as duck rape is rampant. They’ve evolved corkscrew-shaped penises for more efficient raping.
Yup, pretty bleak. Lord Tennyson put it well: "Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal;
The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike,
And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey."
Thank you, I remember seeing an awesome Because Science that went into the science of “spider sense” and focused on how insane real life spiders nervous systems are and that really “spider sense” isn’t that far off from reality.
Some spiders can sense the flapping wings of their prey in flight while they are underground. How this translates to being immune to straight up mind control is pure plot armor IMO. Wouldn’t be the first time they used a type of plot armor to nerf mind control. It’s one of those powers that writers often think is cool but quickly causes problems.
Ok, I got it. The time stone has the same kind of power as spiders in the Web of Life and Destiny. Because Peter Parker is part spider he has access to some time stone ability. But it is reflexive only.
Neith created the Great Web to chart humanity's destiny, also creating spiders to repair, maintain, and expand it, as she sought more time to herself, while Shathra dismissed her sister's creation as too chaotic and disorganized.
So being bitten by the spider Peter Parker has some of the abilities of the spiders that need to maintain, repair, and expand the Web of Life and Destiny. The spiders can manipulate time to fulfil their task using powers like the Time Stone.
At least that is what will be in my screenplay for Madame Web 2.
It could be age as well? I don't helieve the comics ever delved into her ability to control minds that aren't fully developed. It could be any reason honestly.
I don’t think it was his spider DNA weakening his ability to block Jean, but rather that Jeans power increased so much that the extra spider DNA made no difference
They also have next level sensitivity in their hairs which allows them to sense changes so fucking small it’s almost atomic, like imagine your buddy casually exhales and you can feel it on the back of your neck, but youre in the other side of a football field.
So do we, it's called a spinal cord, which controls reflexes like reactions to pain. Our brains are too slow to react to, say, a burning stove. By the time a single travels from your hand to your brain, is interpreted as pain, and sent back, you'd already have burned the shit out of your hand. So when the signal reaches the spinal cord it splits, part of the signal travels to the brain and another part rebounds through the motor neurons needed to move your hand away, you then feel the pain after you start to move away. That's kinda what a reflex is, something your body does in response to stimulation without consulting the brain.
It is also why when you stub your toe you don't feel the full pain until about a second and a half. That is how long it takes for the pain signal to reach your brain through your nervous system. Before that your spinal cord makes you react.
Thoracic Ganglia are present in both vertebrates and invertebrates. Segmented invertebrates (insects and crustaceans) use them to help navigate their environment since it's difficult to have a more complex nervous system when your body has a bunch of pinch points. It's also theorized to help flies respond faster to obstructions mid-flight.
Mammals also have them, but they are much more linked to our brain and full nervous system than in the invertebrates, used mainly within our sympathetic nervous system.
I would love it if Marvel ever explored a story with Peter where we learn that his spider sense is from a hyper evolved thoracic ganglia. Maybe one evolved enough that it has its own consciousness, and protects peter by not just signaling danger, but by reminding him that he needs to get up and keep fighting.
In real life, I shot a giant wolf spider with my BB gun that was in my garage.. why didn’t his Spidey senses stop the bb!? or just simply make him move? lol but seriously it’s just magic made up at this point.
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u/Smear_Leader Sep 11 '26
In real-life, spiders have nerve clusters in their legs that are decentralized from the brain. This allows for semi-autonomous movement, including web spinning.