Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

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This is why Henry Ford made a horse and buggy assembly line. Since what they had was "good enough". And who need silk sutures when we have millions of stray cats around and cat gut worked fine for hundreds of years. Hell, lets bring back leeches so we can drain the demons from our skulls. We must be possessed to think that if KBLB made spider silk anyone would want it.

actually, i did wonder why the garment industry would want cloth made of a product that wouldnt wear and tear much...sure women buy because of changing styles..but not all women...and certainly they would modify that a lot if the prices were too high....but men just generally buy when their clothes wear out..and thats when they might change styles...so the idea that people would have to buy clothes less often doesnt seem like much of an appeal to the garment industry..my guess is, they want their silk stockings to run after a bit so they can be replaced..and if the spider silk is weakened to anywhere close to that degree, then what is the attraction?..what is the benefit?

as for the medical uses such as sutures, there is no need for stronger sutures...and there is certainly no need for sutures that have ointment on them...when ointment is needed it is needed on a lot more surface area than is covered by sutures...and as for joints and such, what they make them out of now is just fine...they dont need to be as strong as steel or anything...besides that stuff would be years away...

I agree any type of medical device is years away. I guess we shouldnt even bother with it since it will take so long???

If KBLB can make spider silk from silk worms we are all rich. If they cant and it takes another year, the PPS will increase without it just from selling our "useless" 60% spider silk. If we succeed in creating a platform organism it will make spider silk look like chump change.

Given I have read your posts forever here mojo I think you know you are wrong here.