Next YC batch: "We're Mollusca and we're democratizing access to nature's strongest material"
"We dropped out of high school to build AI-powered snail teeth."
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)
#42> 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".
more importantly: how many kilos of feathers versus how many kilos of steel can it hold?
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#43I wanted to see some pictures, this paper has good ones: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.10332 If you put your finger in front of a garden slug it may try to eat it, it's a very odd sand-paper sensation but I never knew why.
"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 :)
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#44Next 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.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#45> 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".
> Thats’s comparable to a single strand of spaghetti holding up about 3,300 one-pound bags of sugar Is that cooked or raw spaghetti?
Why complicate matters with pasta at all when spider silk is, at least metaphorically and rhetorically, at hand?
As hinted at by its 2017 postscript, this article is a mess of incommensurable comparisons.
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#46> 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".
whistles
3.3 kilopounds? That's a lot
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
#47> 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".
The main question is how many American football fields is that
12 nautical bushels per Fahrenheit
Re: Snails' teeth beats spider silk as nature's strongest material (2015)
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#50> 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".
Sorry I only understand football field based units of measurement
Wait, I can do that? Here I've been using Smoots this whole time (with great difficulty might I add).