Spider attacks shuttle

Spidershuttttle A giant spider recently attacked the space shuttle Atlantis on the launch pad. Or so it appears in this clip from NASA TV.
Link (Thanks, Kirsten Anderson!)

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*Enter Simpson's Joke Here*

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I knew one day the alien space spider species would attack our methods of space junk spreading.

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I CAN HAS SPACESHIP / DIS SPACESHIP IT HAS A FLAVR

(the second one is funnier if you watch the video)

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Now the shuttle can do whatever a spider can; space elevators coming right up...

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Thanks Nasa and the anonymous spider for reenacting a famous scene from Tintin's "the Shooting Star"!

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Could be wrong, but it looks like a jumping spider. They always end up in the most curious and humorous places.

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I'm reminded of Tintin in The Shooting Star thinking there was a giant spider traveling through space on the meteor, while it was merely a tiny spider crawling across the lens of the giant telescope.

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That is a jumping spider, clearly the Audacious Jumping Spider, Phidippus Audax, I used to keep those in a terrarium when I was young...

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WE WILL FIGHT
AND WE WILL WIN!

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joking aside, thats a frickin' big spider!

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I for one welcome our new arachnid overlords.

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This finally PROVES that the entire Space Program has been an elaborately staged government psy-op...

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#15 posted by OM Author Profile Page, December 11, 2007 11:29 PM

...Well, just goes to show you that despite all the refurbs and upgrades, NASA still hasn't gotten all the bugs out of the Shuttle program.

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Spiders from Mars! Where's Ziggy Stardust when you need him?!

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I look forward to toiling in their underground sugar caves.

mmmmm . . . sugar!

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The flies erupting from Mt. Saint Helens are growing bigger by the year. Spin your web, shuttle spider, for all it's worth.

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