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[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 74 points 10 months ago

It sounds rather more like the first one... for spiders.

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[–] Cache__Bandicoot@lemm.ee 64 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Spider Jesus? That's gonna be one funky cross

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 12 points 10 months ago

Star of David.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 9 points 10 months ago

And one for you, and one for you, and one for you - hey, anybody got anymore wood?

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] activ8r@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I don't know why Spider Jesus would be 5D, but I'm on board with it.

[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago

Spider Christians that use the spider cross on something might be mistaken for Red Hot Chili Peppers fans.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But God is a beetle, isn't he?

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 10 months ago

No...

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...t anymore. :-)

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

At first I thought the OP was asking how they could fertilize the eggs, lol

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I for one welcome our new spider overlords.

[–] courgette@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are some species that can "self-fertilized". I don't know about tarantula, but we have observed a race of shark, where a population of only female was able to have newborn (without changing sex like snails)

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Life, uh, finds a way

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 10 months ago

Now I will have nightmares about tarantula penises.