I am worried carbon nanotubes may be the next asbestos... if they run through the spiders system and get crapped out the spinerets... where else are the accumulating?
In the soot around your candle and your kerosene lamp.
We've had this stuff forever, but didn't know it.
It's tricky to get it concentrated so that it can be spun as a fiber. That's what's remarkable about getting it into and through the spiders.
If they can mix it with the protein they're getting from transgenic goats, they can spin their own.
Then that's when we'll have some really light weight armor, and maybe some impressively strong escape lines for tall buildings and stuff.
The opposite (Alleged) effect to DDT.
Birds reinvent the mallet to enable the chicks to escape from the Egg.
Seriously, you do have a very good point there.