3 ms·
The photo in the article has the caption "These reels contain "synthetic" spider silk fibers spun from the spider silk proteins produced by Saanen goats. Photo
by ipsum2 7y ago
The photo in the article has the caption "These reels contain "synthetic" spider silk fibers spun from the spider silk proteins produced by Saanen goats. Photo © Lewis Lab at Utah State University.". What is the difficulty with spinning?
- carrolldunham 7y agoLooking into it a bit, they have a spinning machine and my best guess is they use that to spin (in the crude, wool sense not the molecular-level spinneret sense) some of, I guess their extruded goop, into a thread. You can assume from the vague wording, obtuseness in every article and lack of mention of any mechanical properties, that this thread doesn't have anywhere near the strength of spider-spun spider silk.
- Gravityloss 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinneret https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinneret https://web.archive.org/web/20161220082737/http://www.astrographics.com/GalleryPrintsIndex/GP2017.html https://web.archive.org/web/20161220082737/http://www.astrog... At least I didn't know that spiders do molecular operations not only when generating the silk substance but assembling it to strand.