Mad Science Alert #2
The goal: Spider silk is incredibly strong. It can be combined with various binders to make fantastic armor
The problem: milking spiders is tedious, and if you put a thousand spiders in an enclosure, in a few days, you have one fat spider.
The solution: spider goats!
No, they don't look like this... they look like normal goats, except their milk is all silky and thick.
but seeing as how they have now genetically altered silkworms to do the same thing, with a much smaller yuck factor... we now have... DUN! DUN dunnnn..... Obsolete spider goats!
Yes, somewhere inCanada Utah is a farm with goats once worth millions of dollars apiece, now wondering where all the guys in lab coats went.
And people wonder why I stopped reading fiction.
recent update: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16554357
The goal: Spider silk is incredibly strong. It can be combined with various binders to make fantastic armor
The problem: milking spiders is tedious, and if you put a thousand spiders in an enclosure, in a few days, you have one fat spider.
The solution: spider goats!
but seeing as how they have now genetically altered silkworms to do the same thing, with a much smaller yuck factor... we now have... DUN! DUN dunnnn..... Obsolete spider goats!
Yes, somewhere in
And people wonder why I stopped reading fiction.
recent update: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16554357
If the spider goat does not look like that then why is there is a picture of it? And how is the silk (the one the spider goat produces) going to make some "fantastic armor", you said that the milk the spider goat produces is thick and silky, how is that going to make some "fantastic armor"?
ReplyDeleteIt is an extra protien in the milk that they extract and make spider silk thread.
Deletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSteel is a good link to explain it.
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