decadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoSolifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate onlineen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up157arrow-down15
arrow-up152arrow-down1external-linkSolifugae - aka. Camel spiders became an Internet sensation during the Iraq war of 2003, when rumors of their bloodthirsty nature began to circulate onlineen.wikipedia.orgdecadentrebel@lemmy.worldM to Creepy Wikipedia@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squarestoly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 months agoThe apparent size, as I understood, was a tick of the camera lens. They aren’t really that large.
minus-squareAwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·11 months agoRight. They’re using lens foreshortening to make it appear much larger. But we didn’t know that back then until after furiously googling in terror after seeing that picture.
minus-squareSkyezOpen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoThat picture is two of them together. They do get pretty big though.
The apparent size, as I understood, was a tick of the camera lens. They aren’t really that large.
Right. They’re using lens foreshortening to make it appear much larger. But we didn’t know that back then until after furiously googling in terror after seeing that picture.
That picture is two of them together. They do get pretty big though.