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26 September 2009

spiders are supercool If you milk a million wild female golden orb spiders, you can make this golden textile.

post by: aniola at: 02:20 | 12 comments

WANT.

posted by gomichild 26 September | 03:09

this is the kind of post that makes me WISH TO GOD AND ALL THAT'S HOLY that I could be living in NYC.

Please, NY Mechazens, send me pretty personal photos from your town!

*whinge*

posted by Lipstick Thespian 26 September | 07:10

NYTimes has some more photos of the fabric.

posted by DarkForest 26 September | 08:41

Holy crap that is so cool. The NYT photo where the threads are all coming together is mind-blowing.

posted by rmless2 26 September | 11:07

whoa. futurama comes to life!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys

posted by pinky.p 26 September | 11:39

WANT TO TOUCH

posted by Specklet 26 September | 12:51

Oh man, that is both equally beautiful and terrifying because those spiders are so big... and they bite!

posted by moonshine 26 September | 13:10

Gorgeous but spiders yeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhhhh

posted by casarkos 26 September | 14:33

Geez, what a waste of time. It totally clashes with my skin tone!

SO BEAUTIFUL!

posted by deborah 26 September | 17:12

"Several groups have tried inserting spider genes into bacteria (or even cows and goats)" Great. So I can look forward to a future where I get caught in a cow web.

posted by arse_hat 26 September | 22:48

get caught in a cow web

that's the best 3 a.m. laugh I've had in a long time...

posted by DarkForest 27 September | 01:51

WANT TO WEAR! What? I look good in gold.

posted by dabitch 27 September | 09:25

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