A sheet of spider silk nearly half a mile long covers a field near Memphis

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spiders are amazing creatures. Just read the article on the BBC on one where is spun a web across a river.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151126-the-worlds-biggest-s...

There's also the 2010 article "An Immense Concentration of Orb-Weaving Spiders With Communal Webbing in a Man-Made Structural Habitat"[0] documenting a 4 acre web inside the Baltimore Wastewater Treatment Plant housing an estimated (lowball) 107 million spiders.

[0] PDF http://www.entsoc.org/PDF/2010/Orb-weaving-spiders.pdf

The article headline is: "Millions of Baby Spiders Create Giant Silken Blanket"

tldr; Baby spiders do what they do. Spiderwebs enuse.

Thank you, the one question I had (Was it a single spider?) was answered by the original headline.

The question I had, "Why would someone want to make a half mile long sheet of spider silk and put it in a field outside Memphis?" is also answered by the original headline.

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It begins.

I didn't see anything when viewing on chrome on desktop (with uBlock). What information was it requesting? Some new HTML / JS hook?

It's Chrome for Android only - https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/4410268?p=mobile_pr...

I'm assuming it's a nonstandard thing they're experimenting with that provides a combination of device ID and browser ID (assuming Chrome on Android is similar to it on desktop, where each install is branded with a number).

That was quick

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