I'm sure every aussie has had one run across their windscreen at least once whist driving. They come outta nowwhere, run straight past your face and disappear into god-knows-where while you're doing 100 on the M1.

They will also sit in the corner of your bedroom ceiling and not move for 3 days straight.

Dear Lord. So these guys are huge AND fast?? At least they're not aggressive?

And kinda flimsy too. I prefer to just leave all spiders alone, but if the wife or kids refuse to allow it I'll catch inside spiders and release them outside - unless it's a huntsman. IF you can even manage to catch them and wrangle them, by the time you get them contained they've usually only got 3 legs left so you've basically killed them anyway.

Fucking hell why did you post this.

Now crosspost to other communities, it shouldn't just be us who suffer

Big spiders are so cool, watching them in the video in the article is almost mesmerizing honestly

I think the "3.59 metres per second" statistic is very misleading.

The farthest I've ever seen one run is about 40cm, and I doubt they can sustain any kind of speed over any greater distance.

Mind you, that 40cm was across a ceiling, and not moving away from me.

Indonesia “I’m glad the Wallace Line kept us safe from this monster!”

It is misleading.

How speed is measured:

Spiders were placed in a box with grid paper at the bottom, and a high-speed camera recording from above.

Comment from author:

He noted that while 3.59 metres per second was the absolute top speed, about as fast as a human jogging, it was only for "a fraction of a second".

"What we call maximum speed, is measured over very short periods of time," he said.

3.59 m/s = 12.9 kmph = 8 mph

To confirm, when you see them move at this speed, and you are a metre away, it will get all of your attention.