Someone want to put this into a few ENGLSH sentences. for the not so sharp freeper like me :)
What’s a nanotube and how does just spraying it on them affect anything.
I have to say that FR is making me feel a little duncy lately and I have a 140 IQ, which I have known for year is worthless.
Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy.
Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.
One of my favorite movies...
As i see it:
Think of glass fiber: Resin and glass on their own are brittle, put them together and a tough laminate is created.
The spider emits the carbon tubes out through its spinners and so soaks them into the silk as the thread is created.
An expert will be along shortly. :)
It you magnified it A LOT it would look a bit like a sheet of chicken wire fencing.
Now imagine you cut off a few inches of chicken wire and rolled it into a tube and lined up and welded the raw ends.
You'd have a tough, flexible tube.
Shrink it back down and make the wires strong carbon-carbon bonds, and you've got one heck of a robust material!