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Date: July 04, 2016 at 18:23:23
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Synthetic spider silk could be the biggest technological advance in cl |
URL: Synthetic spider silk could be the biggest technological advance in clothing since nylon |
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Spider silk’s qualities are nearly mythical. Its tensile strength is comparable to steel’s. Yet it is lighter, and can be as stretchy as a rubber band. Those traits in combination make it tougher than Kevlar. To give you an idea: If the spider webs that shoot from Spider Man’s wrists were real spider silk, the superhero could genuinely have pulled the runaway train to a halt in that dramatic scene in Spider Man 2.
So it’s no surprise that the race is on to create a synthetic version.
After years of hype and false starts, including one now-bankrupt effort that involved genetically modified goats producing it in their milk, a few companies think they’ve figured it out. The two leading the pack are Spiber, a Japanese company, and a California-based startup called Bolt Threads. Bolt Threads believes it has the edge, and that spider silk is only the beginning of what it can do.
the rest at the link....
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Date: July 15, 2016 at 04:14:57
From: Terra11, [DNS_Address]
Subject: spider silk-interesting her lab coat has #42 on it |
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Who was it that said 42 was the answer to EVERYTHING??? Was
that in hitchhiker so guide to the Galaxy?
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