Arto--
Looks like you may need to add a new material to your string
calculator!
Leonard
On 3/6/12 3:41 PM, Anthony Hind agno3ph...@yahoo.com wrote:
Violin strings out of spider's thread:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17232058
Anthony
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To get on or off
Well, what is the density, Kg/m3... ;)
And btw I have the feel that my tarantulas are not willing to co-operate
in producing enough material...
Arto
On 06/03/12 23:40, Leonard Williams wrote:
Arto--
Looks like you may need to add a new material to your string
calculator!
Leonard
I didn't know tarantulas made webs! Now those little guys in the corner of the
room and imagine the prey they could capture with this stuff! No more need for
traps or poison to eliminate indoor mice, rats, bats.
-Original Message-
From: Roman Turovsky r.turov...@verizon.net
To: Arto
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:00 PM, cyndi...@netscape.net wrote:
I didn't know tarantulas made webs! Now those little guys in the corner of
the room and imagine the prey they could capture with this stuff! No more
need for traps or poison to eliminate indoor mice, rats, bats.
They can all
Yes- I got the news from one of my lute students yesterday. I heard a sample
sound bite on the radio on the way home from work today, somewhat strange
sounding- reedy, webby, a touch ethereal otherworldly in a nice way. How
the hell did they harvest and process it? About 12 years ago some
The older I go, the slower I gets ...
A description of how muscles contract is here
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/musc
le3.htm
The complexity of the process makes me wonder whether
differences in physiology (say, heavily gated
sarcoplasmic reticuli)
I saw this two days ago on BBC, and after listening to the sound bite
I thought, There's no way to compare. Give me a sample sound bite
of a good violin with Thomastik strings, and the SAME violin with spider
silk strings. Then I will have a basis for comparison. With their current
sound