Spiders!

This is just one of those things about nature that I think is so cool.  From Science News:

 

To illustrate the amazing properties of spider silk, Nikola Kojic offers an arresting example. Imagine a circular web with a diameter of 100 meters—about the length of a football field—spun from a silk thread about a centimeter thick. Concentric circles 4 cm apart attach to the web's spokes, also 4 cm apart. This larger-than-life web "could stop a jumbo jet in midflight," says Kojic.

 

Ah, spiders.  Aren't they amazing?

 

 

 

 

 

You know, I only have a deep, abiding and irrational fear of spiders that are too big for me to step on.