Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[igotthemojo]

"It is quite remarkable the difficulty and complexity of tasks that can be planned and accomplished when you are just concerned with what actually works as opposed to just winning "points"

and then every once in a while, a shuttle blows up...or someone forgets to do something to a billion dollar hubble telescope before it gets launched..or a piece of equipment rolls out onto planet x and then just stops for seeminly no reason...

you can plan to make a vest...you can run computer simulations all day long...you can turn it into a video game if you like....but you will not know if that vest using a new type of material will stop a bullet until you take it out and shoot it..

"The "problem" is not whether or not spider silk has good enough qualities to make a better bulletproof vest. The problem is how to get enough spider silk to make one at a reasonable price"

you dont get it..it doesnt matter if a spider vest is better...that will not be enough...it will have to be a lot better..a little bit wont be enough...again, the most important thing you need out of a bullet proof vest is that it stop a bullet...kevlar does that...and does it quite well..

and yes as i have stated many times, cost is going to be the really big issue..if it costs more to make and is a little bit better..it wont work..