What If You Could Make Spider Web Like Spider-Man?

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Although you may not have the career success of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” star Tom Holland, you might be able to get your own spidey superpowers.

What’s that? Could you possibly shoot webs from your wrists just like Peter Parker, Spider-Man himself?

Well, it might be a little tricky biologically. But with some creativity, maybe you could fashion spider silk shooting devices that would have you swinging around the neighborhood.

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00:00 What If You Could Make Spider Web Like Spider-Man?
01:13 Web composition
02:12 Silk glands
02:46 Web strength
03:27 Spidey gadgets

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References:

Engineer Is Close to Creating Real-Life Spider-Man Web Shooters - https://gizmodo.com/this-engineer-has-come-closer-to-creating-real-life-spi-1847473069
The Physics of Spider-Man's Webs | WIRED - https://www.wired.com/2014/04/the-physics-of-spider-mans-webs/
What are spider webs made of? And how do they spin them? - https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/what-are-spider-webs-made-of.html
Myth Buster: Spider Silk Is As Strong As Steel? It's Not Quite So Simple - https://www.reconnectwithnature.org/news-events/the-buzz/myth-buster-spider-silk-is-as-strong-as-steel
Bacteria can be coaxed into making the toughest kind of spider silk - https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bacteria-can-be-coaxed-making-toughest-kind-spider-silk
Liquid-liquid phase separation found to drive the process of converting spidroin proteins to spider web fibers - https://phys.org/news/2020-11-liquid-liquid-phase-spidroin-proteins-spider.html
Scanning the properties of nanotubes - https://www.understandingnano.com/nanotubes-carbon-properties.html

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