:07:01
Impressive.
:07:03
Your parents must be very proud of you.
:07:05
I live with my aunt and uncle, they are proud.
:07:07
Hey you two! Let's move!
:07:10
Nice to meet you.
-I'll see you again.
-Yeah.
:07:16
He didn't seem so bad.
:07:17
Not if you're a genius.
He'd love to adopt you.
:07:21
There are over 32,000 known species of spiders
in the world. They're in the order aranae ...
:07:29
Wow, that's amazing! This is the most advanced
electron microscope in the eastern seaboard.
:07:36
It's unreal.
:07:40
Arachnids from all three groups possess varying
strengths which help them in their constant search for food.
:07:45
For example, the Delena spider, family Sporacidae,
has the ability to jump to catch its prey.
:07:54
For the school paper?
:08:00
Next we have the netweb spider, family
Philus Tetidae, Genus Cucacamia.
:08:08
It spins an intricate funnel shaped web whose strands
have a tensile strength proportionately equal
:08:14
to the type of high tension wire...
:08:18
Leave him alone.
:08:19
Or what?
:08:19
Or his father will fire you father.
:08:21
What's Daddy gonna do? Sue me?
:08:26
What is going on? The next person who talks
will fail this course. I kid you not.
:08:31
This grass spider hunts using a set of
relexes with nerve conduction so fast
:08:37
that some researches believe it
almost borders on precognition...
:08:42
-Those guys are jerks.
-...an imminent awareness of danger, a "spider-sense".
:08:47
Hey look at that spider.
:08:48
Some spiders change colours to blend into their environment.
:08:53
It's a defense mechanism.
:08:55
Peter, what makes you think I would want to know that?
:08:58
Who wouldn't?
:08:59
Over five painstaking years Columbia's genetic research facility has...