The next time you see a spider web, please, pause and look a little closer. You'll be seeing one of the most high-performance materials known to man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
His ambition is to be the spider in the World Wide Web.
Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.
You don't work with spiders very long before you start noticing how important silk is to their life and just how special that is for spiders.
Some spider silks are really strong, but not all of them are. The ones that are really strong can actually rival steel and approach the tensile strength of Kevlar. Thus far, the dragline silk seems to be the strongest.
Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
The very first thing on the docket is to have the opportunity to travel to look at spiders in other parts of the world. I know there are really cool silks out there.
Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts.
To borrow from the writings of a spider named Charlotte: 'Silk is terrific!'
Spiders keep me awake at night. If I see one that's too big to get under a glass, there will be big problems. I'll spend the rest of the day feeling like I'm being terrorised by this missing spider.
It's like the spiders are sharing an ancient secret with me, and that's why I'm going to spend the rest of my life studying spider silk.
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