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From: evans@mhuxt.UUCP (crandall)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Yet Another Horror Story
Message-ID: <1471@mhuxt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 07:22:17 EST
Article-I.D.: mhuxt.1471
Posted: Fri Mar 14 07:22:17 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 18:17:01 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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I know of a case where a spider decided to set up shop a few mm in front
of a CCD array. The spider rapidly figured out that the inside of an
imaging device wasn't a very good restaurant and left -- but only after
depositing a few strands of spider silk. One of these strands would
periodically interrupt the optical path of the CCD causing interesting
images. Of course this was an intelligent machine, so no one ever looked
at the raw images -- not for at least a week that is...

Steve Crandall