Pisces, the last sign of the zodiac, is often associated with heightened intuition and emotional sensitivity. Cancer, ruled by the moon, is considered one of the most psychic signs of the zodiac. Scorpio, the water sign ruled by Neptune, is often considered the most intuitive. Pisces can use their instincts to decipher messages from the subconscious and keep a dream journal to decipher messages from the subconscious.
Aries (March 21 – April 19) is known for being keen, astute, and always on the ball. They are laser sharp when it comes to extrasensory perception. Pisces and Cancer (water signs) are known for their intuitive nature and empathetic abilities. Scorpios don’t get hurt as bad because they are much more self-protective. Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius may or may not be able to see lies due to their gullibility.
Emotional Scorpios are often seen in Tobey Maguire’s Spiderman when he becomes briefly possessed by the Venom symbiote in Spiderman 3. The character of Spider-Man is based on the zodiac sign, which is known for its curiosity and youthful energy. Cancer individuals may relate to Spider-Man, as they spread brightness and are known for their curiosity.
In conclusion, the top five zodiac signs known for their accurate extrasensory perception include Pisces, Cancer, Scorpio, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Sagittarius, and Aquarius. Each zodiac sign has its unique qualities, but those with an extraordinary sixth sense are often able to read the thoughts of those around them.
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Which zodiac is hard to control?
The article explores the characteristics of four zodiac signs: Aries, Aquarius, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, which are known for their assertiveness, independence, and resistance to authority. Aries, ruled by Mars, is a fearless trailblazer, driven by a need to take charge and lead the way. Their enthusiasm and impulsiveness make them resistant to authority and control. Aquarius, under the influence of Uranus, is known for its rebellious and unconventional streak, often marching to the beat of their own drum.
They value their freedom and are highly resistant to attempts at control or conformity. Their innovative and forward-thinking nature makes them more likely to challenge traditional norms than adhere to them, making them a difficult target to control. These signs are known for their determination, individuality, and determination, making them formidable in various situations.
Which zodiac sign can detect lies?
Scorpio, ruled by Pluto, is a water sign known for its intuition and ability to read people’s true intentions. They are naturally suspicious and deeply perceptive, making it difficult to pull the wool over their eyes. Their intense gaze can reveal the truth, making every conversation feel like a thrilling detective novel. Virgo, governed by Mercury, has a keen eye for detail and an analytical mind, able to spot inconsistencies and anomalies with ease. They are methodical and logical, detecting lies through careful analysis and deduction. Pisces, ruled by Pisces, is a sign that can help sift through the noise to find the truth.
Which zodiac sign is very honest?
The article presents a discussion of four zodiac signs that are renowned for their unwavering honesty. The four zodiac signs in question are Sagittarius, Aries, Virgo, and Capricorn. These signs are driven by their intrinsic traits and moral principles to adhere to the truth, even when it causes discomfort or conflict. While honesty is a virtue that is not universally embraced, these signs espouse a profound commitment to truth, which they perceive as an essential aspect of their character.
Which zodiac sign has six senses?
Pisces, Scorpios, Cancer, Sagittarians, and Aquarians are believed to possess a strong sixth sense due to their ruling planets influencing their intuition and understanding of others. Pisceans, often considered the most intuitive sign, are ruled by Neptune, the planet of dreams and the subconscious, making them in tune with their inner world and the feelings of others. This concept of a sixth sense has fascinated people in astrology.
What zodiac sign is Batman?
Batman, born on June 26, is in Cancer season, a sign that reflects Batman’s deep connection to his parents’ tragedy. His protective and introspective traits align with his character. Leo, born on July 23 and August 22, is a Leo who loves attention, theatrics, and leadership. His chaotic and attention-seeking behavior is similar to Leo’s dark side. Batgirl, born on August 23 and September 22, is a Virgo with a knack for organization and leadership. Both possess a meticulous and analytical approach, similar to Batgirl’s role as a genius hacker and information broker.
What star sign is Spiderman?
Marvel’s characters symbolize the different zodiac signs. Cancer, represented by Spider-Man, symbolizes the optimistic energy of Cancer individuals, while Leo, represented by Thor, symbolizes the fiery and charming traits of Leo. Chris Hemsworth’s portrayal of Thor connects with Leo’s confidence and allure, making him a hallmark of the Avengers. Virgo, represented by Captain America, exemplifies the hardworking and reliable traits of Virgo individuals, with Steve Rogers’ dedication to truth, loyalty, and justice. These characters’ traits resonate with the Earth sign’s nature.
Which zodiac sign understands people?
Pisces is the most intuitive, sensitive, and empathetic sign of the zodiac, as it is the last of the last to learn from the lessons of all other signs. It is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions, representing the constant division of Pisces’ attention between fantasy and reality. This month’s Pisces horoscope predictions are available, and 2024 predictions are available for your sign.
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Which zodiac sign is quiet?
Individuals born under the zodiac signs of Cancer, Virgo, Scorpio, Capricorn, and Pisces tend to gravitate towards solitude. Individuals born under the astrological sign of Cancer are known for their sensitivity and emotional nature. They tend to gravitate towards close friendships but prefer to interact in smaller groups. They tend to gravitate towards discussions of a more profound nature, rather than engaging in mere casual conversation. Virgos exhibit a greater proclivity for introversion and a preference for environments that are relatively tranquil.
Which zodiac is very clever?
Gemini, a sign ruled by Mercury, is known for its quick thinking and adaptability, making them a smart and versatile individual. They are quick on their feet, love to learn, and solve complex problems. Geminis are also adept at convincing others, making them sound more clever.
Virgo, a sign ruled by Mercury, is practical and detail-focused, excelling in problem-solving and memory retention. They are good at breaking down complex situations and are good at thinking through them. They are good at breaking down complex situations and are known for their logical thinking.
Aquarius, a sign ruled by Mercury, is known for being creative and forward-thinking. They are known for their love for new ideas and questioning, and they are known for coming up with clever solutions to problems. They are not afraid to be different, making them some of the most unique and smart people.
What zodiac is hard to trick?
The four zodiac signs with the highest rankings, Aquarius, Capricorn, Virgo, and Scorpio, are distinguished by their distinctive characteristics and capabilities, rendering them particularly resilient to deceitful tactics.
Which zodiac sign is truth seeker?
Those born under the zodiac sign of Sagittarius are inclined to explore and seek truth.
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All of this crazy sensitivity spiders have is also without the benefit of a human brain to process it. Personally, I think that combination would make it even more super. I lost a nerve in my ear due to an infection and suddenly my entire sense of balance went haywire. I couldn’t even crawl, everything was spinning too much to tell where the floor was. Then, after some time, my brain just learned how to balance itself without the nerve. How crazy is that? My brain just took over because I lost something important and is doing it so well that I can’t tell the difference anymore. Our brains are incredible! Putting that amazing power together with the super sensitive spider sense would probably result in things we can’t even imagine.
Some pointed out some problems that I think are not : 1. Spidey has no exoskeleton, which is true, but slit sensilla are very similar to lumbar disc or to articular cartilage (sinovial cavity for example). We can accept, according to “comics logic” that his body is working as the “exoskeleton” directly, and then, from every part of his body, he could feel tiny moves or bends applied to him. 2. Spidey has a full body suit, and then the tactile hairs won’t be effective. Although I believe that he would be more effective completely naked, but so much less respected, the fact that the average hair concentration is about 40 000 hairs/cm^2 gives us a hint about the size of every individual hair. I easily believe that hair is able to just passing through the suit, knowing that textile is composed with tiny gaps caused by the way the fabric is arranged. 3. The sensory overload problem. Of course, it means a lot, but really a lot of neuronal information for Spidey, but for me, the problem is not that it would be a lot to process, the problem would be to select what to process, and I think that this is the keys to the problem. By selecting what neuronal message to process (call it Spidey Selection), it becomes a lot more plausible to deal with, no? Otherwise, just imagine a simple day with all these sensibilities, you’ll be forever crying… sad way to see Spider-Man ! Let’s just add that of course, his brain adapted to this new input of information. By the way Kyle, I wanna to really thank you to read all the comments.
For those who worry about Spider-man being overloaded with sensory inputs from his spider-sense, no he would not be even with Kyle’s version of the spider sense. This is due to the fact that every normal human brain can tune out certain inputs from our senses already. With Peter’s mutation, due to comic book logic, would make Peter fully adapted in using spider-sense without the stimuli overload cause spiders don’t seem to be. If spiders are suffering from sensory overload then that’s just a dick move, evolution… dick move.
“They are able to feel against their hairs, the individual impacts of atoms and molecules.” Let’s all just take a moment to consider how OCD a person would become if they had such a sensitivity to their surroundings, such awareness of the tiniest of motions, it would likely drive a man insane if he didn’t have the discipline to control it.
Well, in the comics, his abilities really do come off more as kinetic/psionic versions of a spider’s abilities, as his clinging works all over his body, not just his hands and feet. And his Spider-Sense operates on a truly ESP-like level, allowing him to disarm bombs just by sensing which wire would trigger the bomb, which I think is beyond the abilities of hyper-sensitive touch.
Paul Jenkins once wrote in a comic that the Spider-Sense was like looking through individual frames from a article so slow to the point Peter could observe individual pulses of electricity in the lightbulbs of a room. Like he could see the changes in light and dark between each pulse while he was dodging an attack. Absolutely insane
Fun side note: With his wall-clinging ability, Spidey is able to duck faster than anyone else by holding on to the ground and pulling himself down. Likewise with dodging, as everyone else is limited by how much traction they have. The only ones who could come close are the flyers that use forcefields/levitation/TK to yank themselves around.
So here’s what should be an obvious follow-up, would you actually want real-life spider senses? My initial thinking would be “oh gods, the sensory input, this is way too much, please make it stop”. But that’s kind of true for all of our senses now, the brain simply filters and processes data so that it ignores certain types of input and focuses in on others. Would real-life spider senses similarly be capable of honing in on useful sensory input without overloading the system and yet still be useful enough to give us nearly precognitive awareness?
This always seems kind of obvious to me. I knew spiders had amazing senses (though to be fair I didn’t know HOW amazing), and the movies and stuff have always shown Peter’s hair standing on end when his Spidey Sense is going off the first time or so. It would make sense that Peter’s Brain would perceive this much information being processed by his subconscious as almost pre-cognitive. Especially since if the Trichobothria are so sensitive they can pick up disturbances of light, in a way they could “see” all around him. Still can’t explain how it works through the suit though, unless they actually come out of the suit like the little grip hairs in the first original movie.
I noticed one time that our normal human senses sometimes behave at a supernatural way (almost spider sense). When I’m walking on the street and I notice a dog aproaching me barking and growling, I can really feel those chills down my spine and the tingling sensation on the back of my neck as described on the comic book, the hairs of my whole body actually rise (as seen on Tom Hollnd’s Spider-Man) and go back to normal when the danger alert is gone, my body temperature also decreases.
So, one gripe, you said “the minute disturbances a fly’s wing makes from a few body lengths away.” Aka, the sound. My bosses old lab a few years ago found that specifically jumping spiders, and now probably all spiders, can “hear” from much further than that, like, measured in meters, not centimeters. So, if you scale it up like you do in your example, though I don’t think direct scaling would work, as the hairs don’t get any more sensitive, there’s just more of them, the distance would be ludicrous. Also, one thing you didn’t mention, Not entirely relevant to spidey sense, but relevant to the ep maybe, specifically jumping spiders have INSANELY good vision, like similar level of detail to a humans vision in front of them, and then still quite good 360 around them. With a brain the size of a poppy seed. Thinking back to my previous point, even if the hairs are not more sensitive, the immensely larger computing power of the human brain and larger number of hairs could probably mean that Spider-Man would be able to hear better than daredevil, and therefor know whenever anything was going down in all of New York Perks of spending the last two summers doing research on jumping spiders: I get to maybe be mentioned in a YouTube vid
Wouldn’t he get overwhelmed with all the sensations he’ll be surrounded by seeing the amount of motions and constant chaos around him? Even normal people with heightened senses feel all the pain that comes with that increases sensitivity, and seeing how Spidey is going through all the things he does, I’m surprised he hasn’t gone mental or turned evil yet
Kyle, just want to say thank you for making all these shows. My kids and I watch you each week and absolutely love the energy, positive attitude, jokes, and fun you bring to each show. The fact that you keep it family friendly, like language and references, matters a ton to this 35 yr old dad of 2. Thank you Eli, Eli-Deon, and Annabelle
So spider-sense, at least according to you, Mr. Kyle, essentially converts the entirety of Peter Parker’s skin into one big hearing organ much like an ear. Depending on how the radioactive spider venom mutated Peter Parker, he could in theory use echolocation, a skill already possible with normal humans as seen mostly developed in blind people. Having Parker his whole skin become one big ear, he could essentially see everything around him at all times leaving no blind spots whatsoever. Edit: Above covers what the trichobothria sense would do. The Slit Sensilla would imbue Peter Parker with another sense that is similar to how elephants can listen through their feet. I imagine this could be achieved by the mutation Peter would have in his joints. Given how ridiculously sensitive it is already in a spider, Peter’s version of the Slit Sensilla sense may not need to be as sensitive. Like elephants, Peter could theoretically sense an earthquake coming.
Imagine suddenly getting those super senses and then having to adapt to all the extra sensory information. You would be easily startled, overwhelmed and incredibly ADD for a while: you could feel everyone’s footsteps, feel the breeze as they moved, and if someone brushed past you in a hallway, you would feel it exponentially more. I can imagine that the “Spider Sense” would take some getting used to while Peter learned to ignore all the extraneous information.
2:47 Cool. I had the exact same thought. Spiders are so cool and cute. These spider senses are another reason why the myth of spiders crawling in your mouth at night can’t be and isn’t true. They are way too sensitive for that to happen. Spiders would feel your heat and breath and everything else of your movements. To all people with arachnophobia: Don’t worry, spiders don’t come near you voluntarily. They are too shy and too careful because they don’t want to be eaten. Probably too late for footnotes, again. 🙁 Kyle, timezones are killing me. Btw love your show, watched all the episodes and you deserve way more subscribers. Really!
So basically Peter became Daredevil but with more strength, durability, smartness, and over all hell of a lot more functional physiology than it should be capable in such a small body than him. A dig it. Question. Since Peter is so durable that his bones are stronger than steel itself and yet be so light weight (Vibranium like bones now?) and that durability is stretched out across his body. This should mean Peter’s skin is much more durable and therefore thicker, and heavier. Shouldn’t this balance or affect his sensitivity? Think of it like having near bulletproof skin. Like been almost something like Colossus or Luke Cage. What effect would this have on Peter? We have seen him been toasted across multiple concrete walls many times already and just go like “This nothin’ but a scratch”. Hell. Guy punched hulk hard enough he made him face the opposite way. Hhmmm Also… Shouldn’t Peter be so much susceptible to pain then? Having all those nerve endings and stuff across all of his body. I understand Daredevil does. What about Peter? I still don’t think Peter’s Spider Sense works this way anyways. (Krrrhum big symbiote-covered-skin guys, Swinging around that also has this capability kkrrhum)
My only problem with spider sense as we know it is that is is portrayed regularly as only picking up dangers, and not other movements within range. I like to imagine a scenario where someone moves in to give Peter Parker a gentle, friendly hug, and he would feel the motions and the hug before it happened, but he’s so used to his “spider sense” going off when in danger that the man flinches or freaks out.
When I was a child I saw how the other children tortured the spiders. They would take a leg of the spider and pull it off. They did it again, and again until it died. If the spider has more nerves and can even feel a light, then you can just imagine in how much pain that spider was😢 P. S. If there are those who are scared of spiders or have arachnophobia, there is a way to get rid of the spider by not killing it. Just take a glass and some kind of paper. Then trap the spider in the glass and slowly put it on top of the paper, be careful not to pull off the legs (sometimes they get stuck). Then go to the balcony or outside and let it go. If they keep coming back you can try searching ways to repel them.
If they show Spiderman’s origin in the newer movies, I’m hoping show his transformation after being bit like this: Super Strength: He get’s a Goku-like appetite and slowly gets buff throughout the course of a week or more, because you can’t go from skinny to buff overnight unless you have some sort of nutrient intake or stored like fat. Those superpowered muscles can’t be built out of nothing. Meanwhile, people think it could be a normal teenage appetite, but are skeptic on how extreme it is. Spider Sense: The heightened senses cause him to act like he has a constant hangover and a little skittish. He’s more sensitive to light and sound so he would wear sunglasses all the time and would be affected by any little noise. He would also be pretty jumpy if someone like his friend approached him from behind. Meanwhile, people might assume he’s been partying, drinking, and/or taking drugs. It’s a bit different from the other movies and makes at least a bit more sense scientifically.
Hey Kyle, does your office have a heavier O2 content than earths atmosphere? because a giant spider could probably survive in a heavier oxygen environment. the problem with upscaling arachnids and insects is that the trachea would only give oxygen to the places closet to them. the heavy oxygen environment is likely how insects got so big around 300 million years ago. you probably knew this because your office filled with giant insects catches on fire a lot…
Hello Kyle. I’ve got a question(s): Could the spider that bit Peter Parker really have been radioactive? Is it even remotely possible for such an organism to be made of atoms with unstable nuclei with varying degrees of decay? If it did, would it have lived long enough to deliver that bite to Peter? Wouldn’t Peter have suffered from radioactive poisoning or radiation sickness? Is it safe to assume that Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT) was the mechanism by which Peter got his powers? Could the CRISPR Cas9 system been involved?
Well Kyle, let me tell you a story about a similar apparent precognition ability in humans: After Spider-Man seemingly lost his spider-sense, he acted on the advice of Madame Web and turned to Shang-Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, for help. After sparring with Shang-Chi, Spider-Man used his new knowledge of martial arts that he gained from Shang-Chi and combined it with the combat training he received from Captain America to create his own fighting style. He called it the “Way of the Spider.” Complimented by his superhuman strength and agility, the Way of the Spider has proved to be an extremely potent fighting style that he was able to use to defeat Spider-Woman in hand-to-hand combat. It should be noted that prior to learning the Way of the Spider, Spider-Man was unable to defeat Spider-Woman. The eventual return of his spider-sense gave him a tremendous boost to his already-exceptional fighting skills. This actually mirrors the martial artists training. They learned how to identify the smallest body motions to figure out how the person is going to act and react, giving credit to the psychic martial arts myth. In other words, you can develop a spider-sense. But not with the way of the spider, but with the way of martial arts. Why? BECAUSE SCIENCE!
This was truly an awesome and informative article. I had no idea just how cool spiders were. That said, I cannot imagine the amount of sense noise that Peter Parker would be taking in every moment of every day. Maybe it is answered by spiders once again, but how the hell would spiders (or Peter Parker) even sleep, better yet function day to day, without wanting to tremble and jump every second of their life? I picture the same thing as background stories for DareDevil and other super-sense heroes as they deal with all the information coming in and having to learn to cope. Side note: That makes me realize that I would LOVE to see a Spiderman origin movie where he is literally suffering from his new senses while he learns to control them.
Is it wrong that I experienced piloerection at this article and Kyle’s portmanteau title? There is the question about signal to noise ratio. As sensitivity increases, the ability to sense minor variations increases but what about background noise. If tricobothria and slit sensilla are basically very^(some really big frickin’ number) sensitive variation of touch (using fluid air and atoms and molecules as in Brownian motion) then what about the background “noise” in the fluid. I would compare it to trying hear a whisper during a Norwegian black metal concert or trying to feel someone blowing on your arm during a tornado. Unlike bats that emit characteristic sound (frequency and modulation I think), bird calls that use a pattern of variation in frequency/duration, and mothers that recognise the nuances of their own offspring call (goats and elephants), I am curious about the information contained in what the spider senses (frequency and amplitude of the vibration) and whether the size, shape, speed, or material composition can be discerned. A m^3 of styrofoam and a m^3 of steel would displace identical volumes of air when thrown at the same velocity but I would not be too concerned with getting hit in the face by the styrofoam. As an aside, my friend Luke’s girlfriend’s parents are deaf and have “unique” tastes in music because it is a tactile experience for them. And I remember the animal communication stuff from reading “Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel” by Carl Safina.
I read a Punisher comic issue where he was working with Spider-Man to bring down some criminal organization, and at a certain point they’re up on a warehouse roof overseeing the bad guys operation, planning to attack them. Frank is laying on the ground with a sniper rifle, observing the criminals through his scope, and Peter is in front of him 2 or 3 feet away just sitting there, perusal the gangsters too while talking the usual funny stuff, then one of my favorite dialogues in the entire Marvel history takes place: SPIDER-MAN: “You know, Frank… You’re a cool guy. But those anger issues of you. You gotta chill, man.” PUNISHER: “Relax, just kidding.” SPIDER-MAN quickly turns around in absolute shock: “Wait… DID YOU JUST…?” PUNISHER: “Shhh! They’re coming…” SPIDER-MAN: “BUT HOW DID YOU—” PUNISHER: “Quiet now!”
Great article, Kyle! Wouldn’t Spidey’s web fluid be cold since it’s adiabatically expanding once released from the pressurized web cartridge? I always imagined it’d be similar to silly string. Do you think it’d be warm because it’s also expanding like a spray foam? I’m sure I’ve heard webhead mention that the fluid expands dramatically once it hits air…
Not to make it weird but this (to varying degrees) is why erogenous zones work the way they do. They aren’t reading hair movement, but they ARE reading pressure on the skin, relating this to the CNS, and passing it further. This allowed the body to identify the zone in which the body is both comfortable and aroused. There is a zone for that, and it is VERY much individual to the person.
This explains a lot of the hits he takes during fights. Between the noise, all the thought that goes into trying to out fight your opponent, aiming and shooting webs, and all the talking he does, Parker probably got overwhelmed. Reaction times drop significantly when your brain is running that much info at once, and somebody quick enough could easily catch him off guard, or overwhelm him with portals.
Thanks for the article, I am a big Spiderman fan and this article gives me more respect for spiderman’s powers. I wish I had spiderman’s powers even if physics and science would probably beg to differ, for as your other articles said super strenght could be a gift but also a curse. Spectacular article, also amazing.
Being born half deaf and regaining my full hearing later in life i find it a bit comical how easilly movies brush off the fact that spiderman and other superheros would probaly go insane with the amount of sensory input they suddenly recieve. When i was around 14y old i was able to wear hearing aids to somewhat mimic fully functional hearing. This drove me almost to tears, i ripped them off my ears the second i walked on the streets, the wind,cars and mostly people all make so much noice that i could barely handle it. 8 years later and i still find loud noices to be extremly annoying (especially womans high pitch yamming, sorry!) it’s not something you just let go off.
Hi Kyle, great work communicating science as always, I have a question for you. I don’t know if you are familias with spiders and their ballooning, i recently saw an experiment that showed the spiders flying not only using the wind to fly like a leaf in the wind but by shooting their web and riding the surrounding electro magnetic field to float… I wonder if you think it would be possible for the spiders to feel magnetic forces through their trichobothria? If spider man could feel these electro magnetic waves and light would he also be able to feel WI-FI SIGNALS.?!?!?!! 🤔 genuinely enjoy the show, big fan here # Spider-Man WiFi vision
I think this works with the line in Infinity War where Peter, Tony, and Strange meet the Guardians for the first time. Peter’s like “I’m trying to tell you guys something’s coming,” or whatever then the grenade comes. I think based on this article, he could literally feel Star-Lord & friends approaching. That’s pretty cool.
I came on here to issue a nerdrection (Nerd-correction?) about using outliers as representatives for a cohort and how that can lead to mis-representation of a group and poor generalization. But, I think my assumptions may have been off. When I first heard your figures, I assumed you were taking extreme examples of spider perceptions from research *from across a large number of species*. This is something I see often in fiction that irks me; where you have a guy who is called “Snake man”, after being bitten by a radioactive garter snake he gains: the fangs of a Gaboon pit viper, the venom of an inland tipan, the swallowing capacity of a reticulated python and the musculature of a green anaconda, with NO actual discussion on the page of any of those species. We are just to assume that “snakes” come with all of those traits baked in. And so here I was to nerdily rebuke your use of a variety of spiders to upgrade our Peter Parker with scientifically accurate spidey sense (awesome!), but from what I can see through my own lit review it appears most of your figures come from research done on cupiennius salei (Wandering Spider) which is the “white lab rat” of spider research. In which case, your generalizability to run of the mill spiders should be pretty darn good (entymologists feel free to correct me). Anyway, if this is correct, then I retract my correction! Nerd on Kyle!
Not only can spiders detect the slight movements of fluids, the ground they stand on and the incredibly minute pressure on their hairs, but there have been studies done on ballooning spiders (you covered this a bit in a previous article) that allows them to detect slight changes in atmospheric static charge. If the atmosphere is positive enough that day and there isn’t much wind, then and only then will they take flight.
Technically speaking, his regular suit is light material. He had stated before that when he wears it, it feels like he’s wearing nothing. So i believe that his tactile hair would work if the suit is light material, if he could feel the wind through his suit then I’m confident that his mutated hairs would still work through making his spider sense still as effective as it is
Hey Kyle, I’m so curious to know one thing after perusal your episodes and nosing around myself into da science, what is the organ, sense, or skill that humans have evolve better than any other animal (apart from the brain)? We are always hear this animal has the best sense of smell this one got the best vision bla bla, but if we actually managed to pull ourself out of the food chain do we have some OP skills or we are a very balanced character in a RPG game with way to many skill points to distribute and no fantasy?
Hey Kyle So if we had spider senses, we’d probably be naked. Clothes would set off the sensors constantly and unless we learned to ignore it, it would make the sense completely useless. Even if we learned to ignore the trigger from clothing it would lessen the effectiveness of the sense. Since spiderman is completely covered in a suit, his senses would be constantly overloaded unless like you suggested he found a workaround that let the hairs through or put the hairs on the suit, the latter which doesn’t seem canon to spiderman. Thanks! Mike
A couple of problems i would see with just up-scaling a spiders sensory system to human size, adapting it to human physiology and our environment: 1. Effective range The effective range of the spider senses (tactile hair or trichobothria) wouldn’t scale linear to the mass increase of the user, but even sink, because the sensitivity would be roughly reciprocal to the mass increase of the sensory hair (double the mass, double the energy need for activation), though the directional accuracy should slightly improve (bigger detector). Detecting a bullet mid-flight and reacting to it fast enough should be near impossible, because of its high velocity and small cross section. The increased size would also limit the sensitivity of the slit sensilla (roughly reciprocal to the increase in length of the leg-segment) 2. No exoskeleton The fact the we are not clad in an exoskeleton would, in my opinion, pose other problems with the detection sensibility. Our connective tissue, sinews, muscles and bones function far better as a shock absorber than an exoskeleton would and will significantly lessen any forces transferred and therefore would up the minimum forces needed to trigger the activation of slit sensilla. 3. Changes to your nervous system. Having that high a density of receptors covering our skin would probably require several hundred times the amount of sensory nerve fibers than we currently have, which would make it quite difficult to fit inside inside our spine. 4. Wearing a full-body suit.
Because Spiderman’s Spider Senses would be biological organs… that means THEY WOULDN’T HELP HIM IN articleGAMES!!!! This is actually really cool because Peter Parker wouldn’t have any sort of superhuman advantage in articlegames, he could play any sort of Online or Singleplayer games without feeling too bored! Sure he has superior reflexes, but a lot of those abilities can be explained by his Spider Sense, articlegames are purely visual and auditory, meaning that all of his Spider Sense Organs wouldn’t be useful while playing! Other than being unusually fast, he could be just a normal gamer, which fits Peter’s personality really well!
Dear Kyle, you addressed two of my issues at the end of your article, well played. However I still have an issue… How could very hairy boy Peter Parker (even if he could feel through the full body suit) feel such tiny changes in his atmosphere when he is swinging through the city at super speeds? Would not the wind that he is causing to go around him cause his little hairs to go crazy? Even if his brain could tune out all of his tiny hairs whipping around him wouldn’t his spider sense not function?
I never understood Spider Sense cause its the one thing about him that didn’t change by the spider bite… he was always jumpy. Peter Parker clearly suffered anxiety of being bullied for most of high school, maybe it isn’t a spider power, its super anxiety… radioactive super anxiety! Its why he is so jumpy he is literally climbing the walls, combative when confronted and masking his fear with bad puns! Radiation just made his paranoia that everyone wants to hurt him reality! Its Anxiety-Man! After all being bitten by a spider and then thinking your powers are spider based… it was an assumption of cause and effect created all of his abilities.
This actually also helps explain Spider Man’s ability to withstand tons of pain. Mechanoreceptors relay touch/sensation signals, nociceptors relay pain signals. These two processes both meet at Wide Dynamic Range neurons and send signals to the brain. If the mechanoreceptor signal overpowers the nociceptor signal, then the nociception won’t be transmitted to the brain. So it would make sense that if Spider Man is constantly receiving such extreme mechanical stimuli, his ability to receive nociceptive signals would be decreased. This isn’t to say that he would never feel pain because pain and nociception are not the same thing. Pain is much less straightforward than nociception (and we can feel pain without receiving nociceptive input) but I think it does mean that at times when he would be using his spidey sense, he would be desensitized to nociceptive input. Again, pain and nociception are very complex, nuanced, and still require lots of research, but I think the general idea helps us understand how Spider Man can receive such a beating and still fight.
I feel like having spidy sense would be a double edge sword. On one hand you are constantly aware and in tune with your environment on a sensory level that would make sonar and echolocation mere child’s play, but everyday life would be troublesome. For example (if we are going by the science laid out here) Peter would not only have an increase in the number of nerves but how they function. On one hand increasing the amount of nerves alone will cause some issues. To give a conparison a super taster has over 30 papillae on their tongue, a medium taster has 15 – 30 papillae and a non taster has under 15. Because of this, super tasters are more sensitive to certain strong tastes such as bitterness where as a non taster wont have much issues at all. The differences between super tasters and medium/non tasters are not that much but they have significant differences. Same logic would apply with the nervous system on the body. Increasing the amount of nerves by a few could produce significant results. And this has been proven (by most unfortunate circumstances… Thow must say no more ✂🍌)… But results showed that those that “had it” were up 7x less sensitive than those who didn’t. And those were a few thousand nerves and the same type one has on their lips and finger tips. Gross brutality aside, his nervous system wouldn’t have a few thousand more nerve cells. It would have a few billion more nerve cells which would make him not only sensitive to his surroundings but hed be very susceptible to it.
An important caveat here is that the physics don’t necessarily scale up. The viscosity, and general fluid dynamics of air work very differently for any human sized implementation. Also, spiders tend not to move, so our activity alone would likely cause a cacophony of overstimulation making it not just useless, but burdensome as well.
AMAZING article guys 🙂 I just love when sci-fi things fall in line with physics. I have a question, what would it take to make such a radical change in human body, i understand that it wouldnt happen over night like in many movies but how long ? How much energy would it take for a body to make such an adaptation/improvement. I would love to see that in a article. And by change i mean from spidey s change to a change soo big like lizards.
I remember one time being like Maguire avoiding that punch to the head, avoiding a bottle to the head by one of my class mates. I could see him through a reflection on a window, off the corner of my eye, and I ducked out of the way just as he threw that bottle. the bottle bounced just within reach of my hand, so I grabbed it, turned around on the spot and flung it back, barely missing his head on the process. everyone was like “WOOOOOOOOOOW whatthefffff…….?” I myself was impressed
I’ve got one for you. When I was at university we did a study on if it’s possible for the body to make synthetic web strands. And surprisingly it was. Not in the way Spider-man can in the comics but a very thin visible stand was able to be made from the plasma found in blood. I’ll explain. Say you have a small blister or in the studies case a skin reaction that can leave your hands with tiny heat bumps that have blister like fluid. We managed to pull a stand of the fluid and suspend it in the air and it dried just like spider silk!!
This definitely blew my mind, so goal achieved! I discovered this website only two or three weeks ago and this is probably my favorite episode so far. Awesome work! Also I feel sorry for spiders now because people are telling stories here in the comments about them or other people torturing or killing spiders. I was terrified of them as a kid, like most people are as kids, but nowadays I don’t kill them if they’re not close enough to disturb me. If they’re in a corner on the wall or some spot that I don’t get close to, I let them live most of the time, unless I know for sure that they’re poisonous or something.
Spiders also have an additional sense (or at least the way their brain is weird, idk the exact details.) But basically, with all their CRAZY senses, you would think they are constantly being overwhelmed by sensations, but… Nope. They can feel a butterfly fart across the world basically means they feel everything, always, but their senses only actually consciously pick up on something if they want it to, or if it’s relevant to them. So even with 3 different layers of crazy touch sensitive organs, they don’t go crazy, and are able to respond to information that’s actually relevant.
I’m seeing in the comments that people are equating nerves to pain, and since spiders apparently have many thousands of more nerves per square centimeter than a human, they must be extremely sensitive to the sensation of pain. This has been an ongoing and hotly debated topic in entomology. In the human world, pain acts as kind of a warning that something about our bodies needs to be addressed and requires intervention. I’d think we’re MORE sensitive to pain than spiders because (for example) we have less limbs that can’t regrow and damage to any of them could jeopardize our survival. When we break a leg, our bodies react with severe pain because we only have two and fixing the broken leg requires our intervention. For a spider though, the sensation of pain should be much different. Not only do they have four times as many legs, but their bodies can fix broken ones and even regrow them! So the need for pain isn’t as necessary. Their bodies do not require intervention and have evolved to deal with injuries and lost limbs naturally. Therefore, spiders have evolved a much greater propensity to sense other things to help it survive – not so much pain (at least in the sense of broken/lost limbs).
I own tarantulas and they are incredible, I have always thought of them as the “Predators” of planet earth. I would add that they also have eyes and I swear they can see very well from my experiences, its like they are able to see all around and focus on single spots all at once, where we train our eyes movements to focus on the same spot so we only every see a direct target in front of us.
Kyle do you think its possible for parker, being the scientist he his, to be able to create his suit out of his own webbing? Spider silk is incredibly strong like you havr mentioned in previous articles and his suit does seem to be able to take a beating. Since the silk is so fine and elastic if we we to look at it from a spiders silk strands individually maybe it is possible to make something so breathable that the hairs could go out of it? Also an organic suit would allow him to customize it for his web shooters and allow the finner spider hairs that allow grip to come out and reach the surfaces parker needs to stick to. Well thats my 2 cents keep up the amazing educational articles my son an I love it! P.S hope this is super nerd worth haha.
I’ve always thought that his spider sense is even deeper than this. I truly think that Spiderman has some of power cosmic within him. That would allow him to sense dangers beyond the physical-the physical in the way we see it. He can’t fire off or absorb cosmic blasts. But, he has the sensory powers of a cosmic being like Silver Surfer. There have been times where Spiderman has used his spider sense to defuse bombs, elude tripping traps, realize that someone is article taping him, and other situations where a purely physical sense would not help. Heck, the reason he freaks out at the end of Infinity War was, I believe, because he sensed danger all around him with no way out. For the first time his spider sense went into overdrive. He was one of the only people that felt his death before it happened.
In the spiderverse comics it states the spider people (there are so many) are all conected to the web of fate and destiny wich is woven by the master weaver and hr weaves the futures of the spiders (people) so they seem to predict the future of his particular web rather than sensing things.theres also a spider person in the ultimate spiderman called madam web and can straight up see the web and the paralel future universe paths and probabilities of that future happening. Of course i last read these comics in 2015 so im probably wrong
There is also evidence that at least some spiders can detect electrical fields, although how sensitive they are is currently unknown (migrating spiders use it to see if it’s a good time to go flying with their electrostaticly powered web-balloons). This could be used to detect mechanical devices (sorry Doc Ock and Green Goblin) or possibly even the electrical impulses of living beings if the sensitivity was equivalent to that we see in for example sharks.
This vid was super interesting, amazing info. I had no idea spiders had those abilities. Although I think I’m more afraid of spiders now than I was before. They’re just so terrifying! And now that I know they’re practically magic?? Dammit! (When the cartoon spiders jumped on Kyle, I totally flinched. Like big time flinched)
here be a few problems: 1. how could his brain process all that info 2. he wears a suit so he would only be able to feel the suit with his hairs 3. he still cannot detect bad things happening all the way across the city 4. he has no exoskeleton so slit sensilla are unapplicable 5. you could easily defeat him by spraying him with a hose and overloading his senses
Hey Kyle, If spiders are so sensitive that they can feel basically everything going on in, let’s say, the jungle, where some of them live, wouldn’t they become nuts due to so much input they get? Something similar to what happened to Superman when he was a child. Can they, like Superman, tune down the input sensitivity or focus it to avoid getting too much “noise”? Spiders are awesome!
How can you give such a definitive number for the approx number of hairs a spider has when there are so many different species of spider? Wouldn’t something like a tarantula have more hairs than one of those spiders with a tiny body and long thin legs? Or do they have about the same but the hairs are just much smaller?
Cool episode, only one thing, i may be wrong but isn’t a big part of the relative sensitivity of the hair form receptors come from the relative size to the spider and density should maybe change with the change in surface to valium ratio, if Spiderman’s spider sense would have worked the same way he would have looked like cousin it…
The senses might still work under a suit by having enough small holes for them to work but still look and feel like it’s a full suit or by making the suit organic or apart of you like a symbiote but it might not work like that though. Also could Spider-Man see ultraviolet and regular light and with how much they could lift would a realistic but working Spider-Man be more or less powerful than in the movies.
Those old comic cards that used to give stats to characters caused arguments with my fellow teen nerds when I was young. They always rated Spider-Man’s Speed as very high but Strength not as and I always felt if anything they were equal or possibly stronger than fast. I argued his spider sense was making him appear to be that fast and it looks like I might have finally won that 25 year old debate.
So I have a question I believe you haven’t answered yet, In the first Deadpool movie there’s the scene when Ryan Reynold’s Wade Wilson is put in a chamber by “Francis” where they keep the O2 and O at certain levels to activate is mutant genes, what would happen to an average human (non-mutant) body if you were placed in that chamber? Ps love the website it has answered a lot of questions like this!
Very cool article. However, without the ability to react fast enough (which Spider-man seems to have), then you’d only be aware of these things happening or about to happen, but with no way to prevent or dodge them. After perusal this article it seems highly likely that an actual spider can feel the disturbance created by a shoe or some other swatter long before it ends them but, unlike a fly, they end up squished anyway. Perhaps they aren’t aware enough to interpret what that disturbance means or they just can’t react fast enough to do anything about it.
But that’s not how his Spider Sense works. You’re just relating a normal spider’s abilities to what Peter Parker can do. His spider sense is constantly going off, and he had to learn what to respond to. Sometimes it backfires and he ignores vital flags and gets hurt. Not to mention when he web swings, his spider sense let’s him know where to aim his webbing to avoid sticking to crumbling or rotted material. Plus with Venom and Miles being able to attack him without his senses going off further solidifies the fact that his spider sense isn’t based off of an actual spider, but rather a new manifested sense that normal humans can’t comprehend. Because science…..fiction.
There still has to be something said about the type of stimuli that makes Pete’s spider sense goes off. Robot Chicken of all things has hilarious parody of his Spider-Sense just going off even when he’s in existential danger such as when he’s web slinging several stories above NY. Makes you wonder if the combination of spider-sense and his own human responses works together to determine which feelings in the air are actually worth triggering his Spider-Sense. Other wise someone about to stab him in the back would be the same as someone waving at him from his peripheral view
i think that his spidersense only goes off when one of these qualities detect something that the brain registers as dangerous. the brain goes like “oh! i ‘feel’ some light focusing on my chest! well, i cant see, hear, smell or feel it, so it’s probably something dangerous!” and then it makes peter’s head tingle or something, because if it didnt, spiderman would go crazy from sensory overload, thats my opinion though
I thought spider sense was actually like a vision Peter’s body could foresee but doesn’t show Peter just like how madame web’s visions, so Peter could instantly react to danger because his body tells him there’s danger but not specifically what kind of danger so it’s basically ultra instinct below 1%
If we assume for a minute that Spider Man has unlimited mental processing power, would it be possible for him to calculate the exact state of his surroundings from the vast amount of information he is receiving from both regular and ‘spider’ senses? Similar to how if we know the exact position and motion of every piece of matter down to a sub-atomic level, it would be possible to create an accurate model of the future due to causation. Perhaps the combination of vibrations and the motion of air against his skin, coupled with all his regular sensory information, would be enough for his brain to create a model of what will happen a couple of seconds in advance.
And if we assume that the spider that bit Peter was a genetically engineered hybrid of all spiders on earth (this is Oscorp you know they’re insane enough to use genetic splicing technology for that maybe to develop their bio-cable I don’t know) Then he could have traits and abilities from those spiders Such as the net casting spider Now despite having eight eyes not all spiders have good vision infact many of them are blind but the net casting spider is an exception to this rule as it can fucking see in the dark
This all makes me feel sorry for Mary Jane. They show hook like structures growing out of his fingers in the original movies which means his touch would be incredibly rough and if he has this kind of hair density that would all be rubbing up against Mary Jane’s skin every time they touch. That upside down kiss just got ick.
Okay, I agree spiders have INSANE senses, no question about that. But, what are the use of those senses if you’re still part man to get the name Spiderman. What’s the use of being able to sense a gun’s laser sight if the bullet is fast enough to hit you, even when you can sense it. I get Peter’s speed is greatly enhanced and what-not, but without that, you’d just die in fear, knowing there’s a bullet aimed at your head and can do NOTHING about it. Spider sense is like super speed in a way, you need other powers to be able to apply it in a situation that would kill a normal person to avoid dieing in fear.