The astronomy nerds of the world are all atwitter after what appears to be a huntsman spider took up residence on top of Tidbinbilla’s webcam.
There’s a tourism attraction in the making there surely?

The astronomy nerds of the world are all atwitter after what appears to be a huntsman spider took up residence on top of Tidbinbilla’s webcam.
There’s a tourism attraction in the making there surely?
If you look closely in the bottom right corner, you can just make out Leo G. Carroll…
Deref said :
😉 I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords…
As a trusted public servant, I can be useful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves
Gungahlin Al said :
Deref said :
😉 I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords…
Hmmm – almost precisely the words tweeted by @CanberraDSN… 😉
BTW in the foreground is the foundation for a new dish under construction.
Sure Al. A ‘new dish’. (He’s already a minion, you know, spinning a web of deception for his eight-legged masters. That’s an incubator, anyone can see that.)
p1 said :
poetix said :
It came in on that recent UFO, which was a giant egg, full of spiders. We’re doomed, I tell you. Scoff now, you UFO scoffers. SCOFF WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
Did the giant egg land in Woden?
the anguished egg of arachnid doom, no less…
poetix said :
It came in on that recent UFO, which was a giant egg, full of spiders. We’re doomed, I tell you. Scoff now, you UFO scoffers. SCOFF WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
Did the giant egg land in Woden?
Deref said :
😉 I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords…
Hmmm – almost precisely the words tweeted by @CanberraDSN… 😉
BTW in the foreground is the foundation for a new dish under construction.
It came in on that recent UFO, which was a giant egg, full of spiders. We’re doomed, I tell you. Scoff now, you UFO scoffers. SCOFF WHILE YOU STILL CAN.
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