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Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon
MIT Technology Review ^
| 5-6-2015
Posted on 05/07/2015 2:27:54 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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Mmmmmm! Nanotubes with Graphene Flakes.
Spiderpig ping.
To: Citizen Zed; Darksheare; NicknamedBob; GeronL
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:30:19 PM PDT
by
moose07
(Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
To: Citizen Zed
Sounds like it would make really good ballistic vests.
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:31:53 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:32:20 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Citizen Zed
Maybe they should try this with silk worms?
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:32:58 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: Citizen Zed
This is pretty cool stuff. No GMO either!
To: moose07
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.
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:34:48 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: Citizen Zed
Ha....maybe we can spray Boehner with some ...he might grow a spine....even a couple of spherical appendages.
To: dp0622
One of my favorite movies...
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:41:02 PM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: SunTzuWu
How could one movie be SO FUNNY!!! lol.
I did a terrible thing once. I was in church with sister and mother.
There was a choir song playing and my mother was so happy because she thought I was singing with the Choir!
All I was doing was saying “the ca...The ca...The ca...” over and over lol.
I went to confession. My sister couldn’t stop laughing :)
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:43:23 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: dp0622
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_nanotube 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. :)
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:49:37 PM PDT
by
moose07
(Islam and the New Stone age: A book i've not yet written.)
To: Citizen Zed
This is great. Sometimes the flies were escaping. Spiders everywhere want some of these particles.
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:50:37 PM PDT
by
Yaelle
("You're gonna fly away, Glad you're going my way... I love it when we're Cruzin together")
To: GSWarrior
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:52:08 PM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(Burning the Constitution increases global warming)
To: moose07
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posted on
05/07/2015 2:52:09 PM PDT
by
dp0622
To: Citizen Zed
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posted on
05/07/2015 3:26:14 PM PDT
by
Nachum
(Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
To: Citizen Zed
Unintended consequences: nanotube spinning spiders escape and spin webs across walkways. Instead of getting a face full of sticky webs, they decapitate passers-by. Near-invisible strands many times stronger than piano wire makes for very dangerous hazard or weapon.
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posted on
05/07/2015 3:28:22 PM PDT
by
anymouse
(God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
To: NicknamedBob; Darksheare
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posted on
05/07/2015 3:31:38 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(We're all mad here.)
To: Tax-chick; Darksheare
I just commented elsewhere, wait until Taylor Hebert finds out about this!
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posted on
05/07/2015 4:00:05 PM PDT
by
NicknamedBob
(I could win the Lottery! It only slightly skews the odds against me somewhat that I don't play.)
To: SunTzuWu; dp0622
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posted on
05/07/2015 4:06:15 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Citizen Zed
Young’s Modulus of 47.8 GPa is equal to 6,933,000 psi. Steel is 30,000 psi.
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posted on
05/07/2015 4:07:12 PM PDT
by
Fred Hayek
(The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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