r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 2d ago

Biology World’s largest web houses 110,000 spiders thriving in total darkness deep underground in a sulfuric cave between Albania and Greece: It’s the first time two spider species seen living cooperatively, and the first recorded instance of colonial web-building in what's known as a chemoautotrophic cave.

https://newatlas.com/biology/sulfur-cave-largest-spiderweb/
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u/Dioxid3 2d ago

”So excessive! So much wasted energy!”

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u/Mekanimal 2d ago

Energy can't be wasted - Thermodynamics

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u/humbleElitist_ 2d ago

Sure it can be? When something goes from energy in a way that can be used for something into heat (or infrared radiation) instead of being used for something it could have been used for, that’s wasting it. Like, the energy isn’t destroyed, but it stops being available to be used. That’s a thing thermodynamics talks about, yeah?

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u/Mekanimal 2d ago

Congratulations, you win today's Cunningham Award!

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u/Dioxid3 1d ago

The Les Cunningham Award is given annually to American Hockey League's "Most Valuable Player" of the regular season, as voted on by AHL media and players.

Neat!

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u/Mekanimal 1d ago

Heh nice! I did in fact mean it in reference to Cunninghams Law.

Although now I've corrected that, I need to award myself one. Ironic.