Mysterious Amazon Web Tower Baffles Scientists

Made by a Hi Tech spider.

Freaky......maybe it's an antenna for contacting alien arachnophobys...

Then get some non-scientists in there. They won't be baffled, but they'll just make stuff up.

I'm sure it's Bush's fault, and it means that global warming is getting worse.

That is ET,calling home.He had to hijack a spider to build the sub-millimeter wavelength transmitter,and the corral is to keep out curious insects from disturbing it during transmission.ET is inside the base,monitoring the fence.Notice how the tower guy strands are attached to the fence?The direction of the intruder can be determined by which guy strand has the most deflection,and a concealed laser in the tower will coordinate and destroy any invaders.

Further examination will discover that the "silk" is really conductive at certain frequencies,being a string of capacitors (made from the modified spider silk,like hollow beads), connected in series and parallel, and the corral is cleverly designed to focus and direct the output signal,thereby serving multiple purposes.

I would like to have scaled 3D drawing of this unique structure for further study.

Who says the ET's have to be human sized?

Mini stonehenge made by mini Atlantiers off course.

Could it be some new spider that makes these constructs to impress the females (before getting eaten ).

The number of "pinnacles" is 29 so it is primed to be made by an insect with instincts towards beauty. Fibonacci could be an answer.

In nature,as in good engineering, form follows function.Each element is there for a purpose.Nature does not waste effort.So to analyse this structure,ask what is the function of each each element, and the combined function of the entire form?
Was it built from the inside out, or outside in?
I would imagine that the corral was built first,to cordon off the area during construction,to provide protection from sneak attack, at first, then to function as anchor points for the tower guy strands.So it seems to me that the tower is the main focus of the structure.
Why is a tower needed? Is the project complete,or is this just an intermediate step in the construction?Perhaps the strands are tuned to generate a certain frequency when the wind blows,and the tower is like a stylus connecting to an echo chamber in the cone below,in which resides a very sophisticated creature that loves to hear the sounds it produces?
Seriously, most natural structures are either for reproduction,protection of progeny, or food procurement.
So which is it?
If this is neither,it will be truly unique.
Perhaps if there are eggs(or spores,if a fungus) inside the base, when they reach a certain critical mass,they will explode out the end of the tower(a fungus),and by being elevated,scatter further.Notice the tip of the tower is not anchored,this would allow it to rotate like a garden sprinkler when the spores discharge.
The corral could be protection from being eaten during the incubation period.
Perhaps time lapse photography will give more information?

Soon to be a horror movie plot device. Ape-like creatures are drawn by their innate curiosity to this structure and, a la 2001 monolith, are compelled to touch it. The circular "fence" provides a visual alignment cue to the correct positioning of the finger so that the ovipositer hidden within the central column will able to penetrate the finger to optimal depth. Slapstick hilarity ensues as fellow primates enjoy the distress of the pricked primate. Horror to follow when the eggs mature and hatch.

Webhenge!