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71 points by ibobev 18 hours ago | 8 comments

rramadass 1 hours ago [-]

Also see Veritasium's excellent episode, Is Spider Web really stronger than Steel? - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt4p2oalmRY

It features a company with a cool technique where Spider Silk DNA is inserted into Silkworm's DNA so you can easily farm them.

jdw64 14 hours ago [-]

Would it be uneconomical to make clothes from spider silk? But I'm curious what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from.

dcminter 13 hours ago [-]

Define economical :)

the__alchemist 13 hours ago [-]

This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.

Dylan16807 9 hours ago [-]

So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.

the__alchemist 43 minutes ago [-]

In addition to the sibling post, silkworms don't need individual living quarters.

zardo 7 hours ago [-]

Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.

jibalt 9 hours ago [-]

> what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from

Look it up ... there isn't one.

khafra 4 hours ago [-]

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