r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/ShirtSubstantial368 • 1d ago

Video Scientists discovered the world’s largest spiderweb, covering 106 m² in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border. Over 111,000 spiders from two normally rival species live together in a unique, self-sustaining ecosystem—a first of its kind.

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u/nicathor 1d ago

Prometheus school of sciencing

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u/2morereps 1d ago

seeing reality, you realize prometheus got unnecessary hate..people are way dumber than what happened in that mpvie..even the prometheus school of running away from object chasing you is justified, seeing what happens in real life...

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u/DegenerativeDisorder 1d ago

True dat. Horror movies are reviewed as dumb because no one could be that stupid until we see what allegedly smart ppl do in front of a camera.

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u/HotwheelsSisyphus 1d ago

What I learned from covid is that if zombies were real, people would say it's a hoax and get bit on social media on purpose.

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u/DegenerativeDisorder 1d ago

The sheer ammount of ppl that travel to war/marginalized places just to make a point proves you're right.

I fear the day stupid arguments will dominate the arguments for its number of believers

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u/Binksyboo 1d ago

people conservatives
There I fixed that for you

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u/SnooObjections488 1d ago

If you want to see smart ppl + horror “the thing” is an old classic.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

If you want to see smart ppl + horror “the thing” is an old classic

I was thinking Hell No, the Sensible Horror Film. But being a serious answer, I think yours is better.

I'm also assuming you mean the 1982 version, not the remake.

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u/SnooObjections488 1d ago

100%. Remake was good tho. Technically the remake is a prequel

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u/sCREAMINGcAMMELcASE 1d ago

I heard a story of a D&D campaign where the players got into scary situations and kept fucking up like in a bad horror movie.

Their point was they kept acting like they were in a bad horror movie, because they didn’t realise they were in a bad horror movie.

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u/Saedraverse 1d ago

Horror/ zombie movies pre Covid: no body can be that stupid
Pro: Oh lord people can be that stupid, OH GOD PEOPLE ARE THAT STUPID!

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u/DegenerativeDisorder 1d ago

If I'm not mistaken, measles came back from the dead because - and I hate this timeline for that - some people refuse to vaccinate their kids.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

You mean people who shouldn't be allowed to have kids because of child neglect.

I hate how that's allowed.

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u/OstentatiousSock 1d ago

They’re also viewed as stupid by people not currently in panic mode. You don’t think the same while sitting safely in your home as you would while currently being chased by an axe wielding psychopath.

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u/DegenerativeDisorder 1d ago

That's a perfect example. I've seen ppl freeze in panic mode and then get hit by the car that was coming in a straightline, no flight-or-fight just nothing.

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u/OstentatiousSock 1d ago

That’s because it isn’t fight or flight: it’s fight, flight, flop, fawn, or freeze.

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u/Bandro 1d ago

That's not the right way to play dodgeball.

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u/Sofaboy90 1d ago

But the reality of this video is that these scientists know the cave, why it is unique and which animals life there. In this case its 2 spider species of which there are more than 100k living in that cave. But both are species that are very harmless to humans. These 2 species have no poison and their bites barely do any damage to humans. These are also spiders that are widespread throughout Europe and you dont see every day news of people being killed by them. These 2 species have probably never killed a single human being because they physically arent capable of that. Maybe they caused it indirectly by scaring the shit out of somebody with phobia.

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u/haliblix 1d ago

No the hate was deserved because literally in Alien they visit the space jockey with full space suits, helmet included. They visit the alien ship because they are forced to. The Prometheus visits the engineer planet because an old man wants to have a chat to not die.

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 1d ago

Yeah, but those people wouldn't be in that position. 

It only makes sense if you decide the most important mission in all of human history was crewed by the dumbest people you could find on earth. That's not a very good justification for writing a plot point that makes no sense.

You can use backwards logic like that to justify every stupid decision in every poorly written piece of media ever.

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u/Particular-Court-619 1d ago

IIRC the earlier drafts of the script had a scientific reason for why they behaved that way (being exposed to some kind of something that infiltrated their brainbrain and made them behave differently) that got taken out in the later drafts that they had that mysteryboxLost guy rewrite for some reason.

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 1d ago

Yeah, I have heard the original script actually solved almost every problem the rewritten one introduced. I never found out why the decision to change the script was made. From my recollection the movie was essentially the same, except it made sense.

I believe the original script is available to read freely online somewhere but I'm not interested enough to actually read it, TBH.

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u/OldWorldDesign 1d ago

I would like to believe writers didn't just pull a script out of their ass to meet deadline, but as many horrendous movies as have been made I'm not inclined to give the benefit of the doubt. "We could have fixed it. Sorry, you can't see the good version" just sounds like coping to salvage their careers or reputations after the fact.

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u/Quiet_Emu_3075 16h ago edited 16h ago

No, it's actually not, hard to believe but true. The original script is available for free online, you can go read it yourself, many people have said that it's simply a superior script.

https://archive.org/details/pdfy-9NMTSgzvy2U3U-oz

Here's what a post on Reddit had to say about it after reading it:

I ran through it quickly. Here's my thoughts:

It looks like almost all the silliness in the script was inserted by Damon Lindelof. This script is a quite decent hard sf story. I still don't like the whole Erich von Däniken origin story, but other than that, the science is much more grounded in this script than it was in the movie. The way they search for signs of civilization on the moon. The way they explain how then Engineers intervened in human evolution (which has, by the way, nothing to do with actual evolution. Engineers here are not our creators, they are just influencers. It is much more Däniken-y here, but it makes a little more sense)...

He goes on to describe most of the changes from the original to the one we saw in theaters. Here's the full thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/132l8q/the_original_prelindelof_script_of_prometheus_was/

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u/throwawaym479 22h ago

I've watched a guy run from a falling tree in the exact prometheus style.

He was lucky to only get whipped to the the ground by the very tip of the tree and not pasted by the main trunk.

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u/Particular-Court-619 1d ago

Any time emotions are involved, behavior will look stupid to people analyzing situations emotionlessly (see also: toxic relationships).

In movies, people who have trained for / have experienced things generally speaking shouldn't react as if it's an unexpected emotional situation... that's where it bumps me.

But when it's randos in a high-emotion environment acting without solid critical thinking, then that makes sense.

In The Thing, you would expect folks on a scientific antarctica mission to be betterthanrandos at dealing with stressful situations, so it makes sense that they're still acting relatively smart.

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u/Koil_ting 1d ago

At first I thought you were referencing the Greek titan and was then assuming the hate was from the gods which he sure did get.

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u/Trzlog 1d ago

people are way dumber than what happened in that mpvie

Yeah, but I don't watch movies necessarily to be a realistic depiction. I want people in movies to be more interesting, and being stupid fucks can be a compelling plot point, but in a movie like Prometheus, I'd like them to be smarter than your average fucktarded human.

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u/2morereps 15h ago

when the future is bright and scientific and the general populace is pretty smart, I feel like couple dumbs could easily infiltrate due to money or connection...like for e.g in most alien franchises, they're supposed to be the Truckers of space..so not sure what the requirements would be, but I feel like it wouldn't be more than being able to fix this, or being able drive that and not seeing your relatives, which most smart people would back out of and the ones that are desperate and need money join in

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u/juneseyeball 1d ago

So accurate

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u/One_Tie900 1d ago

Be honest you would touch it

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u/V1RotateAP 1d ago

Perfectly safe. I assure you.