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The good news about silkworms is that they're not in it for the long haul anyway, so as long as there are no teratogenic effects, it's all ok.
by M_Grey 10y ago
The good news about silkworms is that they're not in it for the long haul anyway, so as long as there are no teratogenic effects, it's all ok.
- analog31 10y agoWhile it's probably a negligible risk, we would breathe the dust from silk fibers if the stuff were produced in significant quantity.
- M_Grey 10y agoWe're already doing that; we produce nanoparticles of carbon from a number of industrial processes, most notably burning coal. IIRC there was an article on HN recently about finding some magnetic nanoparticles which had made their way into human brains.
- hinkley 10y agoDoesn't that make getting an MRI really really dangerous?
- M_Grey 10y agoActually IIRC the article described using MRI's to find those particles, but I don't exactly remember. Either way, no, they're just too small. What effect they have in the production of free radicals and the like though? Who knows yet.
- asciimo 10y ago... because they're boiled alive as soon as they finish their cocoons. But maybe you mean teratogenic effects on humans?
- samstave 10y agouh... can you expand on this? What do you mean they are boiled? (ill go google - but please explain) EDIT: oh... no thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beondegi
- GrandTheftR 10y agoNot that, boiling is a step to produce silk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk#Production_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk#Production_process