[HN Gopher] Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slin...
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Inspired by Spider-Man, scientists recreate web-slinging technology
Author : ohjeez
Score : 26 points
Date : 2025-11-26 20:17 UTC (1 days ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (scienceclock.com)
| bitwize wrote:
| > Spiders don't actually shoot their silk into the air. They make
| contact with a surface first, attach a strand, then pull and
| arrange their webs with careful choreography.
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| Spiders don't shoot their silk into the air _when spinning a
| web_. Some spiders, however, migrate by ballooning: they stand
| upside down, rear ends (and spinnerets) in the air, and send a
| thread of silk skyward, where it catches the wind or heat
| currents and lifts the spider toward parts unknown.
| vlovich123 wrote:
| Do they send it or do they unspool it as the wind begins to tug
| at the little bit hanging out of them?
| tetris11 wrote:
| Anecdote: I feel I've seen a spider drop from the thread I'm
| holding it from, and hang from a completely new one as it falls
| usrnm wrote:
| I want to see a film about the adventures of Peter Parker
| bitten by that kind of spider
| delichon wrote:
| It's a shame that the paper doesn't reference Steve Ditko or Stan
| Lee or Peter Parker. It's only fair to acknowledge prior art.
| _joel wrote:
| Let's not forget the spider that bit him too, he wouldn't be
| the man he is without the spider.
| Barathkanna wrote:
| With AI taking jobs and scientists giving us web shooters, I
| guess we're all becoming freelancer Spider-Men now.
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