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Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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"try"? If it's harder than your skin it means it did, not tried.

It may have gotten a nibble but empirically I still have a finger :)

Doesn't mean you were not bitten though.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

Do snails scale?

They certainly scale the fence my wife put around the garden. Then again, we haven’t done a good job of patching holes in the perimeter. Our DevOps team is too busy playing in the sprinkler to learn to read, let alone automate patching, but it’s on the board for next sprint.

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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https://old.reddit.com/r/AquaticSnails/search?q=teeth&restri...

Old Reddit now seems to require login to read. Further down the drain we go.

Heard they were rolling this out, hasn't happened to me yet. wonder if it's a soft wall or simply rolled out to certain areas/IPs

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

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post #3

> 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Ah, but how many one pound bags of concrete could it hold?? Why bags of anything? This is a poor way of communicating weight. Just say "a modern passenger car".

Staff Sgt. Sykes: [Sgt. Sykes is directing the recruits on how to judge distances] You take what you know, and then you multiply. Please don't use your dicks. They're too small, and I can't count that high. I don't wanna hear, "400,000 inches."

-Jarhead

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0418763/

Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)

#70

Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"

imagine growing tools out of this stuff instead of forging or casting, that'd be neat.

There's some overlap here with the dental problem of tooth enamel, another kind of wonderful biomaterial.
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