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In 1995, NASA did spiders experiment. Caffeine is a siginificant impulsivity trigger. :)

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/nasa-spiders-drugs-experime...

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Warning: those photos in the dot-com website are negative images, not the original black-on-white. Lousy with animated ad banners, too.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20100033433/downloads/20...

Don't ask me why some blogger posted the PDF in 2013, and also don't ask me how English Wikipedia editors determined that a Wordpress blog is a "Reliable Secondary Source". I did locate the original on NASA's own website. Public Domain (USGov).


What a find! It's on page 106 but I didn't immediately do a control-f to find it or look at the table of contents. My gosh, all the stuff I flipped through before that... some things haven't changed (e.g. Digikey and National Instruments ads).

Thanks for the time capsule. Boy that’s a lot of ads (live video on a computer! Wow!).

The poor marijuana spider tried really hard


LSD has unconnected strands in the air. I guess this is expected.

The LSD and sleeping pills were not in the original study I believe. That might be an artists representation of the image at the bottom of the original study, which I remember showed the results in a single row.

Nice web, Mr. Crack spider.



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