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09-24-2009, 03:59 PM #1
I am deathly afraid of spiders but this is sooo cool!!!
A rare textile made from the silk of more than a million wild spiders goes on display today at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.
To produce this unique golden cloth, 70 people spent four years collecting golden orb spiders from telephone poles in Madagascar, while another dozen workers carefully extracted about 80 feet of silk filament from each of the arachnids. The resulting 11-foot by 4-foot textile is the only large piece of cloth made from natural spider silk existing in the world today.
Read the rest here and check out the textile
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/
Spider Wranglers!!! That is the job I want..... NOT! I wish I could see that cloth up close it looks amazing.
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09-24-2009 03:59 PM # ADS
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09-24-2009, 10:36 PM #2
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09-25-2009, 08:17 AM #3
those things are huge!
The man thong is wrong.
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09-25-2009, 08:42 AM #4
[quote]To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring dozens of spider handlers to collect wild arachnids and carefully harness them to the silk-extraction machine.
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09-25-2009, 09:48 AM #5
Neat piece of cloth. Who paid for those 86 people to collect these spiders? I can only hope it wasn't U.S. tax dollars.
"My heart shall cry out for Moab..." Isaiah 15:5
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09-25-2009, 08:22 PM #6
Looks like those spiders have their heads on straighter than the ones in this video:
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09-25-2009, 08:52 PM #7
poop damnit..... POOOOOOOOOPPPPP!!!!!!!
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09-25-2009, 11:33 PM #8Originally Posted by tmartenst
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09-29-2009, 08:50 AM #9
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09-29-2009, 07:51 PM #10
The crack spiders bitch. That's funny stuff, thanks.
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09-29-2009, 08:58 PM #11Originally Posted by Cirrus2000
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09-29-2009, 10:46 PM #12Originally Posted by Cirrus2000
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