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A comment on Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Miles (2018).

Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by Jim- on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:03PM (#20405273)
More like a showerthought, but:

If arachnids are able to detect magnetic fields and react accordingly, are humans also able to do the same?

Anecdotally, I've always had people commenting on how their mood is down when it is storming outside, and that they feel a 'negative energy' that doesn't motivate them to do anything. So I wonder if there is a relation?

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Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by cwkoss on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @03:07PM (#20405314)
Veritasium has a possibly-relevant video on negative ions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ--scjcAZ4
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Re:Spiders Use Earth's Electric Field to Fly Hundreds of Mil... by Jim- on Friday July 12, 2019 @02:09PM (#20422953)
Wow, dude really goes all out to explain / prove it politely.

Thanks for the video. Never heard of Veritasium before, now one of my new favorite youtubers

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