Replies to post #177142 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[THEBEASTMUGABI]

Good post !

[bananarama]

Well done, MFN. I appreciate all of this information. GO KBLB!

[Chompiee]

But..But...But Kim is an idiot. QFS is going to want the audio of that conversation to verify that it took place.

[DimesForShares]

My post was not an attack on Prodigy.

I was simply trying to point out that the building was a greater limitation on silk production than silkworm eggs. If Prodigy had ten million breeding pairs of silkworms producing 3 billion eggs, Prodigy as it exists today could not handle that capacity on a monthly basis.

I asked about your drift concern and he replied with a shoulder shrug and said “no big deal at all... we do it all the time. It’s easier in this case because they can use the lights to spot the genetic markers”.

The situation here is not as simple as it seems. At one point, KBLB introduced genetic markers that allowed screening by using UV light. From comments made by Jon, it appears that this technique was used to identify breeding pairs at Notre Dame. However, selecting the brightest-glowing silkworms for breeding does not necessarily mean these are the silkworms with the strongest silk. Jon identified this problem and evidently KBLB identified another method of screening that involves testing the silk fiber, rather than how bright they glowed.

Again, I'm not saying this can't be done. I'm saying it has to be done and the sheer scale of the operation means it will take time and resources to perform this screening.