I’m finding it hard to get past the squeam. A bit of fermi estimation puts spider requirements in the megaton range. Suppose you wanted to replace just milk dr

I’m finding it hard to get past the squeam. A bit of fermi estimation puts spider requirements in the megaton range. Suppose you wanted to replace just milk drunk by humans in the U.S. Say 100 megalitres per day (roughly). Suppose a spider produces say 2% of bodymass as milk per day. Under that assumption we need on the order of 5 * 10^9 kg or 5 megatons of spiders. The following article estimates the current spider population of the world at just 25 megatons. https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/the-amount-of-food-spiders-eat-each-year-will-haunt-you-for-the-rest-of-your-life/ https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2017/03/the-amount-of-food-spider... Now I’m slightly haunted by the idea of a megaton scale “spider farm”. Also your comment is an excellent illustration of Poe’s law.