Spiders Spin 'Silk Dope' into Nature's Toughest Material(www.quantamagazine.org)

56 pointsby ibobev12 hours ago1 comment

jdw647 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.
- dcminter6 hours ago
  Define economical :)
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Spider_Silk_Cape
- jibalt3 hours ago
  > what kind of spider Spider Man's web comes from
  Look it up ... there isn't one.
- the__alchemist6 hours ago
  This article goes into it... Need 1e6 spiders in 1e6 boxes.
  - Dylan168072 hours ago
    So it's probably 100-1000x as expensive as silk? That's doable.
    zardo33 minutes ago
    Silk worms make a cocoon, for a spider you would need individually "silk" each one every few days.