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Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Peter parker was just your average day Pholcidae spider, until one fateful day when he was exposed to experimental carbon nano-tubes. Now he must decide, will he use his new found super web powers for good, or for personal gain?

Time to make another movie reboot.

A third (reboot) is already planned, you mean you want a forth?!

Re: Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforced with Carbon

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I just wrote this up myself. The results are remarkable, but the credit seems entirely due to the spiders. Well, not entirely, but the data is so limited! They only got a handful of spiders, from the lab's back yard essentially, and a bunch of them died from nanomaterial exposure, malnutrition, or both after 1 trial! Yet despite the bargain bin trappings, the results are so incredibly cool! The spiders just... incorp…

> Who would have guessed

Except for not being a dog, such a spider is anticipated in Goethe's little poem «Annonce» (Advertisement):

    A little dog is sought
    that never barked nor bit
    takes broken glass as feed
    leaves diamonds as - -
(my own translation, but wouldn't be surprised if it has appeared in these words before)
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