>Baby spiders use "ballooning" -- a single thread -- to fall so slowly that they can travel far in thermal updrafts. It's even cooler. Spiders probably also ex

>Baby spiders use "ballooning" -- a single thread -- to fall so slowly that they can travel far in thermal updrafts. It's even cooler. Spiders probably also exploit the Earth's natural electrostatic gradient (100 volts per meter!) to "ride" on electrostatic repulsion. This would even give up and down control, simply by changing the length of silk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4oMFOoK50 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja4oMFOoK50 https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/II_09.html