Barcelona is advancing!!!

I can't believe it. They were down 1-0 to Chelsea since the 8th minute of the game. They were down a man due to a red card. Then suddenly they go and score in the third minute of stoppage time. Final score 1-1 and Barcelona advances due to the visitor's advantage. (Chelsea was at home)

Barcelona fans must be delirious right now and Chelsea supporters are crushed.

Spiders are zombies!!!

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Seriously I'm not kidding. Some scientists at the University of Rennes in France collected three different species of spiders, two from salt marshes and one from the forest, to see if the marsh dwelling spiders were more resistant to drowning than the forest spiders.

It took 24 hours for the forest spiders to apparently drown and 28 hours for one of the marsh species and 36 hours for the other. Apparently this is what the scientists had expected though I am already very impressed that any kind of spider can survive for 24 hours underwater.

Anyhow, the scientists drowned the spiders then took them out to dry in hopes of weighing them. But within several hours the supposedly dead spiders started moving again and were soon up and walking around. The species of marsh spider that took 36 hours to 'drown' requires roughly two hours to recover.

My thoughts:
1. poor spiders. Even if you are a zombie drowning can't be fun.
2. it takes 24 hours for a spider to drown?! Count me impressed.
3. spiders are zombies!!! Arg!!!!! No wonder so many people are terrified of them.

Disclaimer: this experiment was conducted with three species of Wolf spider. Big, hardy fellows. Do not go and attempt to drown your innocent house spiders just to see if they are zombies.