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Mmmmmm! Nanotubes with Graphene Flakes.

Spiderpig ping.


1 posted on 05/07/2015 2:27:54 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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To: Citizen Zed; Darksheare; NicknamedBob; GeronL

Ping!


2 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.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Sounds like it would make really good ballistic vests.


3 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)
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To: Citizen Zed

4 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.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Maybe they should try this with silk worms?


5 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.)
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To: Citizen Zed

This is pretty cool stuff. No GMO either!


6 posted on 05/07/2015 2:33:13 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Citizen Zed
Ha....maybe we can spray Boehner with some ...he might grow a spine....even a couple of spherical appendages.
8 posted on 05/07/2015 2:38:13 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: Citizen Zed

This is great. Sometimes the flies were escaping. Spiders everywhere want some of these particles.


12 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")
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To: Citizen Zed

Spider-man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag_8erk5x9w


15 posted on 05/07/2015 3:26:14 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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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.


16 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.)
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To: NicknamedBob; Darksheare

Spiderbot ping


17 posted on 05/07/2015 3:31:38 PM PDT by Tax-chick (We're all mad here.)
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To: Citizen Zed

Young’s Modulus of 47.8 GPa is equal to 6,933,000 psi. Steel is 30,000 psi.


20 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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To: null and void

Ain’t exactly 3d printing bud damned interesting anyway.


22 posted on 05/07/2015 4:17:54 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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BKMK


24 posted on 05/07/2015 4:29:21 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Citizen Zed

Can goats produce it?

BioSteel
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSteel


26 posted on 05/07/2015 4:34:42 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: Citizen Zed; null and void

Three D Printing Ping List leader, null and void, might be interested. Live three dee printing.


34 posted on 05/07/2015 6:22:46 PM PDT by bajabaja (Too ugly to be scanned at the airports.)
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To: Nailbiter

bflr


40 posted on 05/07/2015 11:31:14 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: Citizen Zed
There are challenges ahead, of course. Nobody has discovered an efficient way to harvest spider silk, although not for lack of trying.

Hummingbirds have been harvesting spider silk for ages...

43 posted on 05/07/2015 11:47:57 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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