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Re:Northface teams with Japanese startup to create spider si... by TheSpiceIsLife on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @04:56AM (#10545764)
One thought led to another and I imagined these new protein based synthetic fibres being used as building materials, and then some virus being a vector for a mutation to the bacteria used to manufacture (grow) the fibres, and future Earth being cocooned in spider silk.

Maybe we'll work out how to get the spiders to spin us a space elevator in exchange for a continuous supply of insects.

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Re:Northface teams with Japanese startup to create spider si... by fit2rule on Wednesday November 11, 2015 @08:20AM (#10546509)
Space-spiders arrive and make contact with Earth, and at the ensuing world party, mistakenly accept the elite rich, coddled in these outfits, as an offering of sacrifice .. the one of probably a few cultural blunders that eventually unite our two species' in co-habitual free-trade of commodities and .. resources.
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