Spider cloth! SQUEEEEEE!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/

[The Johnny]

ive heard about some experiment that involved mixing genetically a goat with a spider... which led to the goats boobs making silk.

[The Johnny]

but they already have amazingly strong silk... just not thick...

[Kai]

This is awesome.

This sort of shit is honestly more amazing to me than sending people into space.

I'd be working on caddisfly silk for filtration devices, except for the biggest difficulty in any silk investigation:

getting the organism to spin out a single long strand rather than many smaller pieces.

I guess I could make a spinner like theirs except for caddisflies, but the whole operation would have to be underwater, and they'd be unable to spin the same amount of silk.

[The Johnny]

Sending people to space is completely retarded, its just a huge huge HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE waste of resources.... unless they figure out how to grow plants and make an atmosphere (which is not gonna happen anytime soon). And yea, fucking great that we know of gillion places we cant reach, just to do some "trascendental intellectual masturbation".

The bottom of the sea is so much more important and more strange than space, and possibly could be even more productive.

[Kai]

Sending people to space is completely retarded, its just a huge huge HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE waste of resources.... unless they figure out how to grow plants and make an atmosphere (which is not gonna happen anytime soon). And yea, fucking great that we know of gillion places we cant reach, just to do some "trascendental intellectual masturbation".

The bottom of the sea is so much more important and more strange than space, and possibly could be even more productive.

I strongly support deep sea exploration. Also, spellunking. And of course, primary and bioinformatic taxonomy.

[Kai]

JohNyx was right it was goat with silken milk http://scienceray.com/biology/zoology/hybrid-spider-goats/

also, space exploration is great. It's not retarded at all thank you.

I agree.

Sending people to the moon to play golf isn't my piece of the national debt pie though.

[Rumckle]

It's just like sending people to America and Australia in the 15-1700s, actually now that I think about it that didn't work out that well at all in the long run.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's just like sending people to America and Australia in the 15-1700s, actually now that I think about it that didn't work out that well at all in the long run.

Tell me about it.

[Kai]

It's just like sending people to America and Australia in the 15-1700s, actually now that I think about it that didn't work out that well at all in the long run.

Tell me about it.

Well, you see, there were millions of people in both places before the Europeans came, and most were murdered, enslaved, subjugated or exterminated via disease in a mass genocide. A pretty sad story.

[LMNO]

 

[Kai]

I'm a bad literal pedantic monkey.

[LMNO]

We need a "The More You Know" smiley.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

It's just like sending people to America and Australia in the 15-1700s, actually now that I think about it that didn't work out that well at all in the long run.

Tell me about it.

Well, you see, there were millions of people in both places before the Europeans came, and most were murdered, enslaved, subjugated or exterminated via disease in a mass genocide. A pretty sad story.

That's what I'm talkin' bout, Willis.

[GIGGLES]

It's just like sending people to America and Australia in the 15-1700s, actually now that I think about it that didn't work out that well at all in the long run.

FUCK YOURSELF SHITNECK! AMERICA IS AWESOME!