The Cellar - Oct 14, 2009: Rare Silk

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Gravdigr

10-24-2009 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Slothboy (Post 601094)

HELL.
NO.

Don't want to look at that, touch the finished product, go near the spiders, or hav anything further to do with this whole affair. Good day!

I SAID GOOD DAY!

Ditto.

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Originally Posted by capnhowdy (Post 601730)

They're pretty good at water spouts too. Even if they're itsy bitsy.

:lol2:

observer

10-24-2009 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by newtimer (Post 601141)

"...French missionary Jacob Paul Camboué, who worked with spiders in Madagascar during the 1880s and 1890s."

Ah, the good old days, when missionaries worked for a living and invented neat stuff. That would be a good position to be in.

Yeah, the missionary position is not bad, I suppose...

treehugger

11-25-2009 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Cicero (Post 601889)

There's this spider that likes to hang out next to my keyboard, and mouse. We had to have a little talk. I think he was listening because there's no sign of him/it anymore....

:greenface:greenface:greenface:greenface:greenface:greenface:greenface

DanaC

11-25-2009 05:36 PM

As long as they are not visible in my bedroom, I leave them to do their own thing. Anywhere else in the house (unless Mum's visiting), I don't mind them being there.

toranokaze

12-11-2009 05:05 PM

We have a subspecies of golden orb spiders down here, or at least I think they are, that weave a three foot web across the front of my place.

It is truly amazing what one can do with spider silk, and we are working on synthetic spider silk.

xoxoxoBruce

12-12-2009 12:58 AM

They've been working on synthetic spider silk, for a very long time, and last I read, not making much progress. It's devilishly complicated, and spiders produce something like 6 or 8 different types of silk, for different applications.

Oh, and the spider turning the liquid into thread is a mechanical, not chemical, process.

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