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Spider Wranglers Weave One-Of-A-Kind Tapestry
NPR ^
| 9/27/09
| Christopher Joyce
Posted on 09/28/2009 4:03:59 PM PDT by DemforBush
This week in New York, the American Museum of Natural History unveiled something never before seen: an 11-by-4-foot tapestry made completely of spider silk.
Weavers in Madagascar took four years to make it, and the museum says there's no other like it in the world...
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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: goldenorbweaver; spidersilk; tapestry
The idea strikes me as a sort of mad scientist thing, but I gotta admit the finished tapestry is pretty nifty looking.
To: DemforBush
Oh yeah, I almost forgot. Golden Orb Weavers may make a pretty tapestry, but I'm still reaching for the Raid if they get within 30 feet of me.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:06:21 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:07:33 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Um, Ah, hmm, um, er, ah, achoo, er, um, sneeze, er, BUSH'S FAULT)
To: DemforBush
How’d they get the stickum off?
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:11:07 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(The Democrat party is a criminal enterprise.)
To: DemforBush
Kinda beats a macrame lampshade I worked on for 6 months
in `73
Never finished the darn thing
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:11:55 PM PDT
by
Harold Shea
(RVN `70 - `71)
To: DemforBush
30 feet! Yowza! 3,000 feet!
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:13:04 PM PDT
by
BunnySlippers
(I LOVE BULL MARKETS . . .)
To: MaxMax
I’m sure that’s a future episode of bizarre foods where zimmern eats these things after they’re deep fried.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:14:45 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: DemforBush
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:16:39 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: DemforBush
They invested half a million dollars in this. It will be interesting to see if they can sell it for a profit.
For the man or woman who has everything, I guess.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:18:59 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: DemforBush
I don't buy this story. I bet they go the silk from one of those goats that are spitting out the same spider silk proteins. They have not been able to make the silk as strong as real spiders silk.
making the goats silk into a rug would be a logical use of this stuff.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:25:43 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: GeorgiaDawg32
Zimmern uses spider webs for dental floss.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:25:48 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(Worse than we could have imagined.)
To: HiTech RedNeck
Dragline silk has no stickum.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:26:22 PM PDT
by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: Cicero
They are stupid to make real spider silk into a rug. Real spider silk would be make the best body armor available.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:27:24 PM PDT
by
Steve Van Doorn
(*in my best Eric cartman voice* 'I love you guys')
To: DemforBush
Those are harmless.
Just as the tarantulas we have here in NM in abundance are.
Ours are much larger though....saw the cats playing with one on the back patio this morning.
Was sitting on the porch a few weeks back and looked down to see one that had climbed up on the toe of my shoe....I’ll admit that I jumped and let out a holler!
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:37:03 PM PDT
by
Bobalu
(I AM JIM THOMPSON)
To: Bobalu
Oh, I know they’re harmless. If they weren’t, I’d reach for my pappy’s shotgun instead of the can of Raid. :-)
-DFB, who believes a “Drive by” is the appropriate response to a scorpion sighting.
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posted on
09/28/2009 4:48:58 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(Somebody wake me when sanity has returned to the nation.)
To: DemforBush
I think Spider silk holds the record as the strongest filament there is.
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posted on
09/28/2009 6:18:48 PM PDT
by
Cheetahcat
(Zero the Wright kind of Racist! We are in a state of War with Democrats)
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