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offline jamesa from United Kingdom on 2002-07-30 23:44 [#00331304]
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To continue on from Jedi Chris' amazing thread about water
levels, i read the other day that a spiders silk is
practically the strongest material in the world. Five times
stronger than steel apparently.

"Wow" i hear you say... however, they are utilising this
natural phenomenon by injecting a gene from a certain
spider, (with one of the strongest webs) into a female goats
egg at conception.

Wait for it, wait for it... then when the goat is born, it
secretes spiders silk in small doses into its milk, which is
then separated using a special machine to make lots of
spiders silk.

This is then used to make a futuristic body armour, where a
sheet of it as thick as nylon will stop a bullet dead.

Plus, the company doing it is taking over the world of the
production of fishing line, as it is so strong.

Amazing i thought.

Oh, sorry, "Aphex Twin is cool, rdj album is the best."

 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-07-31 00:22 [#00331339]
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and then ofcourse some poor sap who works at that company
gets injected with the gene by accident and starts pissing
spider silk making it really hard for him to use his
newfound power as a superhero.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2002-07-31 00:31 [#00331344]
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that really would be badass, but a few years after its
completion I'm sure they'll have devised a weapon that can
penetrate that armor. ;)

LOL@qrter

 

offline jamesa from United Kingdom on 2002-07-31 00:34 [#00331345]
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Do you reckon it means that if you were to inject it into a
female egg human that when she grows up she will have bullet
proof tits?

And so on...

 

offline giant_robot7 from Davis (United States) on 2002-07-31 06:49 [#00331502]
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bullet-proof tits? think of the new borders in porn that
could open...

or don't, as nobody really needs to go there.

 

offline Duble0Syx from Columbus, OH (United States) on 2002-07-31 06:51 [#00331505]
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I'll not say what pornagraphic thoughts that inspires...

 

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