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▲Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material (quantamagazine.org)
rramadass 3 days ago [-]
Also see Veritasium's excellent episode, Is Spider Web really stronger than Steel? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt4p2oalmRY

It features a company with a cool technique where Spider Silk DNA is inserted into Silkworm's DNA so you can easily farm them.

jdw64 3 days 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 3 days ago [-]
the__alchemist 3 days ago [-]
This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.
Dylan16807 3 days ago [-]
So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.
zardo 3 days ago [-]
Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.
phatskat 1 days ago [-]
You can use spider egg sacs but it seems directly from the spider is more efficient since you don't have to wait for them to make the sac
the__alchemist 3 days ago [-]
In addition to the sibling post, silkworms don't need individual living quarters.
jibalt 3 days ago [-]
> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from

Look it up ... there isn't one.

khafra 3 days ago [-]
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Ouman 3 days ago [-]
We've gotten very good at designing materials, but nature still has a few manufacturing tricks we haven't figured out
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