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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by jimnotgym on Sunday December 18, 2016 @05:18PM (#13208043)
I thought a skyhook was one of those things you send the apprentice kid to the stores for, like tartan pain, spirit level bubbles, long stands and a weight with no point? Maybe even a left handed screwdriver...
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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by Fjolsvith on Sunday December 18, 2016 @10:21PM (#13209311)
At scout camp we'd send the new kids down to the waterfront for 50 feet of shoreline.
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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by jon_richards on Sunday December 18, 2016 @06:32PM (#13208380)
Pretty sure it's the thing in batman that allows troops to reverse skydive.
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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by hwillis on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:35PM (#13208631)
You mean that thing by the CIA which was successfully tested in 1958, and later was a plot device in a Batman movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_surface-to-air_recovery...
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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by douche on Sunday December 18, 2016 @07:42PM (#13208660)
Also on display much earlier in Thunderball and The Green Berets.
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Re:Graphene-Fed Silkworms Produce a Super-Strong Silk That C... by ieatkittens on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:24AM (#13210214)
Wifi cable
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