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Subj: Spider-Week Science: Using Spider-Goats to make human skin bulletproof.
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 04:08:04 pm EDT (Viewed 404 times)

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Saw this link on Comic Book Movie News and thought it was fun and fitting our theme:

http://jalilaessaidi.com/2-6g-329ms/2/

Basically, it details an art/science project where bulletproof spider-silk was harvested from those genetically modified goats and woven into a matrix between two living layers of human skin. Then they shot at it with a gun, because why wouldn't you?

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Spider-Week Science: Using Spider-Goats to make human skin bulletproof. · Visionary · Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 04:08:04 pm EDT
- My first instinct might be gunfire too. (no text) · HH · Sun Oct 30, 2011 at 10:36:33 am EDT
- That's freaky cool in a weird science kind of way. I'm sure Al B. approves. (no text) · Al B. Harper · Sun Sep 25, 2011 at 07:22:42 pm EDT
  - Just think of the advances we could make if we didn't worry about pesky ethics! (no text) · Visionary · Mon Sep 26, 2011 at 11:22:47 am EDT
- I remember reading about the spider-goat a few years back. (no text) · killer shrike · Fri Sep 23, 2011 at 09:28:44 pm EDT
  - Yeah, as I was writing this I thought I remembered them being mentioned on the board way back when. (no text) · Visionary · Mon Sep 26, 2011 at 11:23:24 am EDT