Oh no, nothing will ever turn out bad with us idiot humans genetically enhancing spiders. No nothing bad could possibly ever go wrong.
I think that there needs to be an arachnophobia warning at the top.
OT- I don't see how this could ever possibly go wrong.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.
So I chose the path of the Ebon Blade, and not a day passes where i've regretted it.
I am eternal, I am unyielding, I am UNDYING.
I am Zethras, and my blood will be the end of you.
Guys there's a reason why insects are all tiny. They have no lungs and without them they can't sustain large bodies.
So no need to worry yet, first, they have to evolve lungs. Or, maybe, through forced evolution by human hand.... Hmmm.
Besides, spiders are amazing creatures. They only suck the liquid out of you. So in the future we will protect ourselves by evolving without blood, water etc in our bodies.
Probably not possible, so we're fucked.
Didn’t realy say but how long is the spiders web making glands boosted from this graphemes drink? I’m assuming that once the spider runs out of the graphene it ingested it’ll go back to normal silk
Some spiders like jumping spiders tear the prey into tiny peices with their serrated mouth parts instead of leaving a nice neat husk.
http://infinitespider.com/how-spiders-eat/
Orb weavers already produce a spider silk thick enough to be used in cloth, one gram of it goes for over $150 and if I remember correctly the ancient royalty of Thailand wore some garments made of it. But feel free to fact check me on that last bit because I'm really fuzzy on it.
Anyway, the biggest problem is that spiders are cannibalistic which makes farming the silk at scale extremely difficult.
Which tends to always be a problem when trying to domesticate predators.
How the fuck did these horrible things evolve? I swear they're from space.
So Spiderman is actually a documentary... interesting. Thanks a lot Stan!
9 out of 10 people agree that in a room full of 10 people one person will always disagree with the other 9.
Spiders could (theoretically) eat the entire earth's population of humans in the span of one year.
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I wonder if the graphene ends up reinforcing their body as well. If it's just being subbed into created proteins the little bastards should stiffen up pretty fast.
Spider shape doesn't scale up, but there are some pretty remarkable carapaced creatures now long dead. Jaekelopterus, Pterygotus and Arthropleura are all examples of giant carapaced fossils. You're right with the spider shape though; I think the largest living carapaced thing is the Japanese Spider crab and that both lives under water, making the form more effective than on land, and weighs only 40 or so pounds. It's scary, but not giant spider scary.
one step closer
There are no worse scum in this world than fascists, rebels and political hypocrites.
Donald Trump is only like Hitler because of the fact he's losing this war on all fronts.
Apparently condemning a fascist ideology is the same as being fascist. And who the fuck are you to say I can't be fascist against fascist ideologies?
If merit was the only dividing factor in the human race, then everyone on Earth would be pretty damn equal.
Here's a good explanation of it.
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Actually we can genetically engineer goats to produce spider silk in their milk. So maybe we could use that.
https://phys.org/news/2010-05-scient...ider-silk.html