Goats Milk..Udderly Arachnid
Goats Milk..Udderly Arachnid
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heliox

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450 posts

278 months

Wednesday 17th July 2002
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Will TVR be using goatmilk products in the future?

..in a search to produce more "spiderweb silk" known for its lightness and strength
a bio-tech company in Canada have given goats the DNA taken from a spider, these "Spider Mammals" then go on to produce milk that contains large amounts of spiders web which is retrieved through processing..

its very versatile stuff and so far the potential applications for its use in medicine & industry are huge..tomorrows carbon-fibre.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0117_020117TVspidermammals.html

david010167

1,397 posts

279 months

Wednesday 17th July 2002
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ewe must be kid'ing.

simpo one

89,336 posts

281 months

Wednesday 17th July 2002
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I'd rather get it from a goat than a 200-pound spider. But of course TVR would specify the wrong sort of goat, and your car would then be held together with only goat's milk (which is how they stuck the interiors of early Tuscans I believe!)