Whenever I see a new discovery in nature, I have to believe there are some bigger geeks than us looking at it, turning it around, and thinking much bigger.
Combined with other stuff, it might be the burst of movement that starts a process that piggybacks onto something else.
Inventions often result from weird connections.
Inventions often result from weird connections.
“Connections” by James Burke
How invention are linked...
A superb read, And IIRC also a lecture series.
Good stuff! Your library can get it for you.
Already been thought of.
Space tether for power and propulsion .
The only question is, would spider silk be better than the Aluminum tape this inventor suggest.
Precisely!
“I have to believe there are some bigger geeks than us looking at it, turning it around, and thinking much bigger. Combined with other stuff, it might be the burst of movement that starts a process that piggybacks onto something else.”
Faster-than-light travel, the illusive FTL engine that will take us to the stars, IMHO will first come by some ordinary discovery. And then some really smart engineer will say, “Hey, I wonder if we could use that...?”
“Inventions often result from weird connections.”
There is a wasp that can sting a spider, and turns the spider into a zombie, which then, for the first time in it’s life, spins a nest for the wasp, using the design somehow transmitted to the spider.
I sure as heck hope that whatever experiments they are doing with THAT don’t go awry!