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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 2 years ago

Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar

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Adding spider DNA to silkworms creates silk stronger than Kevlar

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EspiritdescaliMA to FuturologyEnglish · 2 years ago
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Spider silk is strong and tough, but hard to farm. Silkworm silk is easy to farm, but not that strong. What if we could combine the two?
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      “It’s about 5 years away” I believe is the usual boilerplate

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          20 years of adequate funding away.

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          We are 5 years away from fusion being only 20 years away

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            I think the secret is scientific progress is like me on a deadline: 20 years is just so long away, you know? I’ll get started tomorrow.

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      Translation from the lab can take a very long time and a lot of money.

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  • CJOtheReal@lemmy.sdf.org
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    Cool

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    Why does a caterpillar/spider hybrid sound so terrifying to me?

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