Page 57 - Wonderful Creatures: Children! Have You Ever Thought ?

HARUN YAHYA (ADNAN OKTAR)

ENGINEERING

IN THE COBWEB

Have you ever noticed the shapes of spider webs? Did you know
that spiders produce their thread themselves and that this thread
has some amazing characteristics? Or have you heard that the

techniques used by garden spiders to spin a web are the same as

those used by civil engineers today?

A spider needs two separate places in order to spin its web. Webs
are generally spun in a corner where two walls join or between

two branches. However, some spiders are so skilful that they spin
their webs using a single surface. How a spider spins its web is

spectacular. Now try to visualize what we will tell you here.

A spider first finds a flexible branch that is long enough to spin its
web. It firmly fastens a thread to the end of the branch. Walking

down the branch, it continues to secrete thread. Once it covers a
certain distance, it stops and ceases to secrete. It pulls the thread

it has secreted until the branch is bent like a bow. The spider sticks
the other end of the thread, which is now as straight as a string,

firmly to that point. Then it starts to spin its web inside this bow.

Now consider what you would do if you were to stretch a string

two and a half meters long between two walls that are two meters
apart from each other. While you are trying to find out how, let us

explain how a species of garden spider has solved this problem.

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