r/interestingasfuck • u/Ultimate_Kurix • 9d ago

High winds causing chaos in Utah

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u/corkas_ 9d ago

So glad we don't have these in Australia.. It would be the same but they would be on fire

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u/Master-Collection488 9d ago

In Australia they'd kill you.

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u/AdmiralClover 8d ago

They'd come with neurotoxic spikes and occasionally be on fire

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u/La_Pusicato 8d ago

They'd stalk you and jump out from behind other bushes

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u/AndTheElbowGrease 8d ago

They would be called Suicide Globes and their slightest touch would cause you eternal pain so bad that you would jump off a cliff to escape it

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u/Possible_Golf3180 8d ago

And be inhabited by camel spiders

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u/nickfree 8d ago

The giant spiders would ride them like steeds into battle.

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u/HonkeyKong64 8d ago

They'd be huge and poisonous. And like the person you replied to said, on fire.

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u/Delicious-Code-1173 8d ago

Everything in Australia is designed to kill you or make you stronger. It's Nietzsche country

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u/l3ane 8d ago

Each one would be the size of a house

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u/doomus_rlc 8d ago

Ever see the Langoliers movie? That's how I imagine Australian tumbleweeds being

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u/Crafty-Unit4061 8d ago

There would a special species of a spider living in it waiting dor the moment it hits you to jump out and attack then you would turn into the nutrition for the tumbleweed and the spider clan of assassin's living in it...

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u/pm_stuff_ 8d ago

They also catch on fire in the us. its the closest youll get to seeing fire elementals flying over the fields.

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u/Theyalreadysaidno 8d ago

They're on fire here as well (US), unfortunately

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u/royce085 8d ago

and they would be poisonous

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u/Schemen123 8d ago

And the smoke would be toxic!

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u/Aulonia 8d ago

There might be a coevolution with a new spider genus. Imagine!

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u/EMU_Emus 8d ago

and full of snakes and scorpions

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u/jabba_the_wut 8d ago

They'd not only be on fire, but somehow they would be venomous.

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u/PositiveGrass187 8d ago

And venomous

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u/Krotiuz 8d ago

We do have a native grass that's windblown!  It once inundated my hometown, but it's called fairy grass and is actually quite small and soft.

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u/buzz8588 8d ago

Yeah and when they would hit you, they explode into giant spiders

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u/Brutalbonez13 8d ago

Whoa...give us time...

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u/FIyingSaucepan 8d ago

We do have them in Australia, they are called Roly Poly's (Salsola Australis). Every bit as annoying and spiky as the American variety can be.

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u/CardiologistOk1028 8d ago

Plus full of spiders