Daryle Lockhart

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...makes you feel he's the cool exec with the heart of steel.

I'm an entertainment marketing veteran, science communicator, artist, writer, and science fiction culture specialist. Hong Kong Cavalier. Blue Blaze Irregular. You know. My mission is to save the world by impacting pop culture with science literacy, and look good doing it.

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Luke Cage exposed!

14-billion-years-later:

Want Bullet Proof Skin?

Of course you do. Well now bioengineers have developed a skin made in part with spider silk that is capable of stopping a speeding bullet. Spider silk may not seem that strong, but in a strength to weight comparison a weave of it out distances Kevlar 4 fold. I once heard that an inch thick rope of the stuff could stop a jet plane at full throttle. For videos of the tests you can click here. The first test shows a bullet moving only at half speed, while the second test shows it moving at full speed under which conditions the skin is compromised. To be fair though, it’s a step in the right direction and I look forward to being the super villain hero I’ve always wanted to be.

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Luke Cage exposed!

14-billion-years-later:

Want Bullet Proof Skin?

Of course you do. Well now bioengineers have developed a skin made in part with spider silk that is capable of stopping a speeding bullet. Spider silk may not seem that strong, but in a strength to weight comparison a weave of it out distances Kevlar 4 fold. I once heard that an inch thick rope of the stuff could stop a jet plane at full throttle. For videos of the tests you can click here. The first test shows a bullet moving only at half speed, while the second test shows it moving at full speed under which conditions the skin is compromised. To be fair though, it’s a step in the right direction and I look forward to being the super villain hero I’ve always wanted to be.

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(via scinerds)

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Posted on Monday 30 January 2012.
4 weeks ago.
Filed under: #Spider silk #Kevlar #Skin #Silk #Wyoming University #Bombyx mori #Victoria & Albert Museum #Spider
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