The World’s Biggest Spiderweb

This is the world's biggest web!

This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas. It’s not yet clear if this “work of art” has been made by a single or a colony of spiders. The web was initially white, but turned dark when all the mosquitoes got caught in it. Also, nothing was said about the species of spider found at the location. Until further information is provided, here is the huge white web.

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Prototype heat shield for NASA Orion capsule arrives at Kennedy

The heat shield that will protect the new Orion space capsules as it sends astronauts back and forth between Earth and the Space Station, and later between Earth and the Moon, Mars, and other places, has arrived at the NASA Kennedy Space Center for testing.

Based on technologies from the space shuttle and Apollo, the new crew exploration vehicle (CEV) aft heat shield for the Orion space capsule is one of the first pieces to be developed for NASA’s new Project Constellation.

The heat shield is called a manufacturing demonstration unit (MDU), which means it is not hardware that will go out into space, but only a full-scale test hardware that will simulate how the real shield will look and work.

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