http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/
ive heard about some experiment that involved mixing genetically a goat with a spider... which led to the goats boobs making silk.
but they already have amazingly strong silk... just not thick...
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.
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.
Quote from: JohNyx on September 28, 2009, 04:17:18 AM
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.
Quote from: Broken AI on September 28, 2009, 06:50:36 AM
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.
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.
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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. :(
Quote from: Nigel on September 29, 2009, 01:38:17 AM
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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.
:roflcake:
We need a "The More You Know" smiley.
Quote from: Kai on September 29, 2009, 02:28:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 29, 2009, 01:38:17 AM
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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.
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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!
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Quote from: Kai on September 29, 2009, 02:28:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 29, 2009, 01:38:17 AM
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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.
They had the wrong values, Kai. We had no choice.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on September 29, 2009, 11:26:25 PM
Quote from: Kai on September 29, 2009, 02:28:45 AM
Quote from: Nigel on September 29, 2009, 01:38:17 AM
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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.
They had the wrong values, Kai. We had no choice.
Bunch of anarcho-primitivists. Communists too.
Quote from: Rumckle on September 28, 2009, 04:12:18 PM
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.
so you say we should rather build rocketships than time-machines?
Well, both would be cool, like the TARDIS or something.