A single strand of silk (in this case silk from a spider's web) that is 1/10 the size of a strand of hair, can stop an insect that is going 15mph. And if it were an inch thick in diameter, it would be very very strong. enough to stop something going hundreds of miles per hour. So if you were to collect a Spider in a jar, feed it and stuff, could you somehow roll up the spider's webs on a regular basis and somehow keep it in shape of strand, whilst getting the collection thicker and thicker, eventually getting it to an unbreakable point? Sorry if I phrased this like retard. Just something im trying to type as im thinking it.
sort of but not quite. You made some assumptions that are intuitively sound but not experimentally sound. For example, an insect going 15mph has a momentum equal to its mass times velocity. Impact with the web takes place over an interval of time (less than a second), which, divided into momentum will give you your impulse. NOW if you expand the strand of spider silk to an inch diameter, you would use the factor of "enlargement" to calculate the new impulse you could survive (if I am correct, though it feels like I am missing a step) and thus calculate the speed for an object of a certain mass, assuming that impact will still take the same amount of time (which it will probably be bigger, in fact, due to the larger momentum).
Jeremiah Hernandez
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Jacob Nguyen
Is this a meme now? I just saw this in another thread.
Cameron Gomez
You weave it you dipshit
Andrew Reed
but how do you weave it? surely barely touching it will destroy it
Jeremiah Nelson
I heard that a strand as thick as a pencil could hold back a 747 at full thrust.
Not sure if that was if you were to scale up a single web strand, or if it was a rope literally that thick made from loads of strands though.
Eli Gray
They're studying how to make body armors based on spider silk.
Yeah for real.
Jaxson Price
Pull legs off spider. Glue it to stick. Use it as a loom shuttle thingy.
Ian Walker
And making goats produce it in their milk too or something.
Daniel Turner
I've heard that as well
John Smith
bumping for interest
Mason Ward
Theoretically yes, Im not a Physicist or an expert by any means, but I am undeniably smart, though not a genius; but i digress, Assuming that you are able to get the silk undamaged you'd need to take an extremely large amount of the silk to weave it into a rope like structure and then turn that into some sort of net. However, I'm pretty sure that Ropes and such have diminishing returns when using more of a material. You'd also need to know the Tensile strength of silk and then use that to figure out the tensile strength of the rope of the spider silk and also tensile strength of the spider silk rope net. You could use that value to find out how much force and pressure can be applied to the net/mesh and then after that you could use dimensional analysis to find out the maximum momentum that can be stopped by a mesh/net of spider silk rope of a certain size and rope radius. JFC I'm a fucking nerd
Lucas Butler
wwjd
Noah Nelson
what would jesus do?
Carter Anderson
i asked you first
Jaxon Clark
ITT, children try to sound sophisticated and refined with cringeworthy sentence structure and non-science.
Connor Lee
So it spider silk is stronger than steel and jet fuel can melt spider silk, why can't jet fuel melt steel beams?
Asher Butler
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Aaron Sullivan
Maybe it is adults, just high as fuck on weed. Sounds like a stoner idea
Jordan Bennett
I'm not a kid, I just didn't edit my post before i posted it. Yeah, my sentence structure was cancerous but that doesnt make what i said untrue
Julian Lee
It's called biomimicry OP, we're designing a lot of shit from nature and finding that it works better than anything we've ever tried to invent on our own.
because the melting point doesn't have anything to do with strength or ductility. it has to do with material. Spider silk is probably made ith hydrogen oxygen and carbons, and those are pretty easy to oxidize, whereas a Iron-Carbon alloy thing is not easy to melt. its extremely strong, however, steel beams become easily bendable at the Temp that jet fuel melts.
