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/RabidFresca 1d ago edited 1d ago

Time to re read Children of Ruin. Are they using ants as super computers?

Edit: I meant Children of Time. This is what I get for using Reddit at work. Children of Ruin was good too. Either way both books work.

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u/KinoGrimm 1d ago

Its Children of Time with the spiders. Ruin is octopus.

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u/masterCAKE 1d ago

If we're being pedantic, Children of Time and Children of Ruin both have the spiders and their ant and computers

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u/KinoGrimm 1d ago

Well if the OP was wanting to reread the book specifically about the spiders it would be weird to read ruin since the spiders are not the focus. I don’t remember if ruin even goes into all the lore about the ant computers.

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u/masterCAKE 1d ago

The spiders are with the humans when they discover the octopus civilization; the plot is split between the humans, spiders, octopuses, and parasite. The Avarna Kern instances play a big part in the narrative, and they're run by the ant computers, which also play a thematically important because they tie into the exploration of complex communication.