Spider silk
- Goats modified to give milk that holds something that approaches
spider silk, but yet far from the superior natural spider silk.
Spider Silk As Strong As Kevlar!
- University of Notre Dame and Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Create
Artificial Spider Silk Breakthrough "The
genetic engineering breakthrough was announced today (Sept. 29,
2010) by Dr. Fraser, Dr. Lewis and Kraig Biocraft CEO Kim Thompson at a
press conference on the Notre Dame campus."
- What are the ways some AWECS at some scale might one day use
artificial spider silk effectively?
- Braiding for aircraft-landing arrestor cable is one target for
future artificial spider silk.
- Natural spider silk cloth made. Very labor intensive.
- Cables for parachutes and paragliders?
- UV? Moisture? Abrasion? Longevity in atmosphere? Density?
Working elogation?
- How will spider silk cable compare to forecasted CNT cables?
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wiki/Spider_silk
- Spiders themselves have made possible several kinds of kiting using
their silks.
- "ballooning spiders" are actually employing the silk as both
moving mooring and tether to kite their bodies; the wind drags and
wafts the silk forming a resistive tether with undulations that
effects lift and drag to carry the terminating spider that has itself
lift and drag during the flight.
- Spider silk that catches food items fundamentally becomes a mesh
of tether holding the food to waft in the wind; kiting effects can be
observed in the woods about this matter.
- Some spiders in building webs let their bodies hang and kite to
remote points where next attachments are made.
- It is frequent that leaf parts get caught in spider silk in
nature; the leaf parts become the sailing lifting-dragging body at the
end of a spider-silk tether which tether is moored to bushes and trees
and houses.
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