2/12/08

Nature's Got a PhD in Math


So, I love this shot of a cemetary spiderweb. Just look for a moment at how this web is constructed. Now, imagine you had to make a web like this from string to win a million dollars...I couldn't do it. This little spider with a brain half the size of a sesame seed, made this. He knew which blades of grass to use......he knew how many rays to spin.....he knew how many segemnts needed to connect each of the rays...... He knew the middle had to be different (for reason I don't know) from the outer part.

This web is pretty small...no larger than a salad plate. So, to get this shot, I walked over to the cemetary behind my house. It was early in the morning and the dew was obviously still all over the ground. I saw all these cool webs covering the grass. So, I got down on the ground and started snapping photos. Of course, then a funeral home guy decided to get to work early that day. He probably thought I am a quack walking through a cemetary at 6 in the morning. I've been caught there before taking photos. Oh well.
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  1. Very cool picture of the spider web. Nature is truly a marvel
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