Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material www.quantamagazine.org 54 points by ibobev 11 hours ago
jdw64 6 hours ago 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 6 hours ago Define economical :)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape the__alchemist 5 hours ago This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes. Dylan16807 1 hour ago So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable. zardo 7 minutes ago Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days. jibalt 2 hours ago > what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes fromLook it up ... there isn't one.
the__alchemist 5 hours ago This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes. Dylan16807 1 hour ago So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable. zardo 7 minutes ago Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
Dylan16807 1 hour ago So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable. zardo 7 minutes ago Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
zardo 7 minutes ago Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
Would it be uneconomical to make clothes from spider silk? But I'm curious what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from.
Define economical :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape
This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.
So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.
Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from
Look it up ... there isn't one.