Spiderman's Curtains

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RealBigNuke

Man, I bet if you made a robe out of that, it would have awesome +spelldamage
 
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WolfOfOdin

I'm now waiting patiently for PETA to raise a stink over this
 
PatrThom

PatrThom

Nothing I've seen on Digg in the last month has gotten my imagination going as much as this article. I so want to see the exhibition. I wonder if they have a swatch you can touch and feel?

--Patrick
 
@Li3n

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No you fools, that's what pissed her off in the first place... this time she might turn us all into spiders... :aaahhh: (my 1st thought)
 
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From the WTF Department: Beauty and the OH GOD KILL THE BEAST WITH FIRE!

Behind door number 1, extremely rare silk:





Beautiful fabric, probably feels like a soft dream to touch.



Behind door number 2, hard work goes into making it, with great care





Behind door number three



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Peers came up with the idea of weaving spider silk after learning about the French missionary Jacob Paul Camboué, who worked with spiders in Madagascar during the 1880s and 1890s. Camboué built a small, hand-driven machine to extract silk from up to 24 spiders at once, without harming them.

“Simon managed to build a replica of this 24-spider-silking machine that was used at the turn of the century,” said Nicholas Godley, who co-led the project with Peers. As an experiment, the pair collected an initial batch of about 20 spiders. “When we stuck them in the machine and started turning it, lo and behold, this beautiful gold-colored silk started coming out,” Godley said.

The textile weighs 2.6 pounds, and it takes about 14,000 spiders to produce 1oz of thread, which means... Oww, my head hurts.
But of course, some spiders were caught and 'milked' more than once, over the years.

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Unlike silk worms, which are easy to raise in captivity, spiders have a habit of chomping off each other’s heads when housed together.
To get as much silk as they needed, Godley and Peers began hiring dozens of spider handlers to collect wild arachnids and carefully harness them to the silk-extraction machine. “We had to find people who were willing to work with spiders,” Godley said, “because they bite.”
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http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/spider-silk/



god damn those look freaky... their legs have like joints and shit, kill it, WITH NUCLEAR FIRE FROM ORBIT
 
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Now I know Calleja's gone. He would've corrected the misspelling of Spider-Man in the second post.
 
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Laurelai

From the WTF Department: Beauty and the OH GOD KILL THE BEAST WITH FIRE!

We have these spiders where I live, but we grew up calling them "banana spiders" Their webs are HUGE and very strong. As kids running through the local woods, these things were something you really watched out for. When you hit a web running, you could feel a good deal of resistance when you smacked into one.



.... then came the game of "OMG DO I HAVE A SPIDER ON MY HEAD/BACK/HAIR/CLOTHES/ANYWHERE ON ME ??!!!??!?!!?"

If your friends were nice, they'd tell you the truth lol.
 
Calleja

Calleja

Spider-Man HYPHEN!!

---------- Post added at 01:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:45 PM ----------

lmao, I hadn't seen Fade's post.. I immediately reacted.

Dammit, Fade, why didn't YOU correct it, then!? :humph:
 
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ThatNickGuy

Soooo...

...I guess in this case, the carpet WOULD match the drapes!
 
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