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Re:Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video] by gingabriska on Saturday August 24, 2019 @09:57AM (#20787149)
It's just a concept shoe made from spider silk. There can be many more application.

It's biodegradable (I guess) so probably we can use it to replace plastics.

Instead of plastic or metal or wood, we might end up using proteins.

Re:Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video] by agumonkey on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:12AM (#20787214)
I can really take stronger biodegradable grocery bags. The corn plastic based ones are an exercise in softness.
Re:Stronger Than Steel: Synthetic Spider Silk [video] by dymk on Saturday August 24, 2019 @10:46AM (#20787393)
They were pretty adamant about how it didn’t biodegrade - “you can have a spiders web that doesn’t break down for hundreds of years”