Wherever you're sitting right now, chances are there's a spider nearby, statistically speaking.

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 spider silk

What? Who?
Knowing that each spider can make different kinds of silks around four to eight for most of them, each kind is used in a different way from each other but when use together make a cohesive web that is synonymous with them.

How? Why?

Spider silk is made of proteins and the dominant proteins inside the fiber are spidroins which is short for spider fibroins that are unique to their species. Inside the body, all of the silk glands have liquid proteins in them, highly concentrated honey-like substance that is viscous and gooey. The raw ingredients for every protein chain are twenty amino acid and what the order are for the acids in the chain decide the overall genes which in turns decide what kind of the silk molecule would be and what can it be used for.

Then? So?

Going back even 100 million years ago, the result of the evolution is the spider silk that could withstand pounds of power and human naturally want to manufacture and weave this stuff for themselves by taking the gene and move it into another organism such as bacteria, plant, silk worms or even goats. Yes, goats, with silk coming out of their mammary glands. It is still in experimental phase but it shows the power of evolution that even us want to emulate them four own benefits.

Lesson Learned:

We're still no match for millions of years worth of nature's experiments.