Replies to post #279956 on Kraig Biocraft Laboratories Inc (KBLB)

[arachnodude]

Why do they always have to leave the door open to doubters?

And your answer?

[rayovac812]

Some 2nd party confirmation would probably move the price considerably.

If 3rd party results have been the same as KBLB results, why send them out? KBLB has confirmed it and Kim is on the hook for this confirmation with this PR.

Why do they always have to leave the door open to doubters?

Its either them or the chronic complaint demons. If they don't confirm this, then dimes posts that "we don't know" this or that. So folks are going to complain with or without confirmation. I am sure truism is extremely happy to get this quality confirmation PR, and green light to proceed.

Who is to say that a partner or potential partner, wasn't requesting this? Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.... As you know, they will have to periodically assure quality. That is always done internally. Customers will do the same thing. I have no doubt Dr. Kumar took cocoons home for testing as well.

We don't know the details. Kim doesn't want to give China the "unmatched" details either.

What agreement does KBLB have with those that gave us their best silkworms, and our fine expert advisor? One of these days Kim is going to announce agreements with these folks. Vietnam has dibs on a head start for now.

[DimesForShares]

I understand and agree with your point that it would have been helpful to have their measurements confirmed by a neutral party. I wish Thompson had simply gone on the record by reporting the actual values he had measured.

Mundane silk has a tensile strength of about 0.5 GPa (source: https://www.nature.com/articles/418741a) and Golden Orb dragline silk weighs in at 1.3 GPa. Some of the DS measurements were close to 2.0 GPa, if memory serves.

If Thompson had reported measurements of both his mundane silk and the Bam-1 silk, presumably investors could verify his measuring procedure by comparing numbers for mundane silk against reported values and documenting how much stronger than mundane silk the new fibers actually are.

Instead, anyone who wants some indication of the strength of Bam-1 has to dig around through all of the PRs (the values aren’t there) and perhaps locate the newsletters where these values were reported. Different measurements were reported at different times. Which ones is Thompson claiming to have matched?

Suppose Thompson reported 0.5 and 2.0 GPa for mundane and Bam-1 silk samples. Then he could say, “Bam-1 silk is four times tougher than mundane silk.” That kind of simple comparison is easy to get excited about. Statements along the lines of ‘It’s as strong as the samples we measured several years ago” doesn’t carry the same zing.

Having said that, today’s PR was another step forward, both for the company and for investors. More forward steps, please, Mr. Thompson!