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[CREMSteve]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...etically-eat-every-human-on-earth-in-one-year

The world's spiders consume somewhere between 400 million and 800 million tons of prey in any given year. That means that spiders eat at least as much meat as all 7 billion humans on the planet combined, who the authors note consume about 400 million tons of meat and fish each year.

Or, for a slightly more disturbing comparison: The total biomass of all adult humans on Earth is estimated to be 287 million tons. Even if you tack on another 70 million-ish tons to account for the weight of kids, it's still not equal to the total amount of food eaten by spiders in a given year, exceeding the total weight of humanity.

In other words, spiders could eat all of us and still be hungry.

If you gathered up all the spiders on the planet and placed them on a very large scale, together they'd weigh about 25 million tons, according to Nyffler and Birkhofer. For comparison, the Titanic weighed about 52,000 tons. The mass of every spider on Earth today, in other words, is equivalent to 478 Titanics.

Spider biologists have also generally found that spiders consume approximately 10 percent of their body weigh in food per day. That's equivalent to a 200-pound man eating 20 pounds of meat each day.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Posting before all the spiders gifs

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Edit : Just clicked on the original topic and saw the imgur .gif, I'M DONE

 

[Ray Wonder]

What would happen to a spider if it eats Spider Man? Does it become a spider squared?

 

[John Kowalski]

nuke this thread from orbit http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1356048

 

[hydrophilic attack]

nuke this thread from orbit http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1356048

 

[John Kowalski]

Wow and i made such a good post too. Now it's wasted.

 

[Ray Wonder]

nuke this thread from orbit http://m.neogaf.com/showthread.php?t=1356048

Wow, hydrophilic attack stole your joke.

 

[Host Samurai]

Not with the EDF defending us.

 

[Escape Goat]

That's good to know I guess.

 

[CREMSteve]

nuke this thread from orbit http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1356048

Damnit GAF! >.<

 

[itwasTuesday]

This day is so full of spider news.

 

[____]

Not me.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

nuke this thread from orbit http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1356048

why you steal my joke and make me look like a joke-stealer

i'm onto you

 

[Ray Wonder]

why you steal my joke and make me look like a joke-stealer

i'm onto you

Wasn't me &#128519;

 

[hydrophilic attack]

looks like we completely fucked this thread

 

[Ray Wonder]

looks like we completely fucked this thread

It feels like a masterpiece to me

 

[John Kowalski]

What would happen to a spider if it eats Spider Man? Does it become a spider squared?

What would happen if Spider man bit a spider? Does it become the Man Spider?

 

[hydrophilic attack]

It feels like a masterpiece to me

this is what happens when modbot is sleeping on the job