‘Giant spider eats space shuttle’ - December 12, 2007
A moment of levity during NASA’s frustrating attempts to launch Atlantis – a spider crawling on the lens of one of its cameras appears as a monstrous, shuttle eating beast.
“Add ‘exterminator’ to the list of preflight checks for January’s launch,” says WJBF.
British paper Metro has the real scoop though: “experts viewing the footage suggest that it is a clear indicator that the Earth is about to be plunged into an all-out space war with a race of 150ft-long demonic spiders who live on rocket fuel”.
Watch the full video and make up your own mind.
Comments
:-) This has happened before! In the Tintin comic The Shooting Star, there's a scene in the beginning where an astronomer asks Tintin to take a peek through a telescope and he sees a gigantic spider. Turns out that it was crawling across the lens. Reality catches up with comics, finally.
Posted by: ludwig | December 12, 2007 01:49 PM
It's the first time that a female jumping spider (Salticidae) is looking for an astronomer groom! She couldn't find a male salticid in the area, maybe!
Posted by: Hisham El-Hennawy | December 21, 2007 11:09 AM