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Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material
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quantamagazine.org
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ibobev
16 hours ago
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jdw64 11 hours ago
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Would it be uneconomical to make clothes from spider silk? But I'm curious what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from.
dcminter 11 hours ago
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Define economical :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape
the__alchemist 10 hours ago
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This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.
Dylan16807 6 hours ago
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So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.
zardo 5 hours ago
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Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
jibalt 7 hours ago
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> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from
Look it up ... there isn't one.
khafra 2 hours ago
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Rendered at 09:52:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape
Look it up ... there isn't one.