Genetically engineered silkworms are creating silk that is 70% stronger than spider silk.

The hybridization of animals and other natural creatures can make it possible to create fundamental materials. Researchers created silk that is 70% stronger than spider silk by connecting silkworm's and spider's genomes. That thing can make it possible to create new and more effective protective materials than ever before. 

Using cell cultures or bacteria where that genome is transferred can create a large mass of that extra-strong silk. And that silk can use in parachutes and even breaking wires that can stop aircraft on aircraft carriers. Also, that strong silk can be used everywhere. There is a need for lightweight, flexible and strong materials. 

The bulletproof vests and long but lightweight ropes are good places where that kinds of materials can be suitable. But if that material can produce enough. It's possible to use that super silk between the outer and inner core of the new armor in helicopters, aircraft, and even ships. Super silk can also revolutionize textile production. 

But then we can think about genetic engineering and the ability to create cotton or hemp genome connected to the spider's and silkworm's genome. That thing allows creating the new type of fiber, stronger than steel. If that kind of material is used in textiles that make them fundamental. 

There are always risks in genetic engineering. The risk is that the genome will slip at the wrong point that thing can create poisonous silkworms-hybrid that can be dangerous to humans. 

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The story of Andrée part II (The finding of photographs and equipment)

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

When Salomon Andrée's equipment and photographs were found in 1930 over 30 years after those men's death, was that case actually a miracle. There were more questions about that case and the first one was the age of his company. The two men who left with him were 27 years old Knut Fraekel (1870-1897) and 25 years old Nils Strindberg (1872-1897). Andrée (1854-1897) himself was 43. So why Andée choose those two men for his trip? Why didn't he take elder persons, who would have more life experience with him to that fatal trip?


Was there something, what that man wanted to hide? Were those two men were chosen for the company, because they wanted to be addicted about Andrée, who was eldest and that too him the position, where he was the absolute authority. The balloon was put in the silk, and that material is quite difficult to repair. Sometimes there were claiming, that Andrée was murdered because there was something special about that silk. And in the wildest thoughts in my brain comes idea, that the silk is made by spider's net.


That material is quite difficult to get, but some tics are making the similar material. This is only thought, and I cannot prove it anyway. But let's continue with the finding of the equipment, photos and diary of Andrée. The first thing was, that Andrée was the only one, who kept the diary. Many people were happy when that stuff found, and Andrée was idolized in the eyes of Swedish. He became the national hero. But one question is open: how that material, what left after those three men could be found after 33 years?


Maybe the luck was with those men, but sometimes I have found another reason, why the diary and photographs could be so good condition. If somebody took them from his pocket in that island could be the very natural explanation for the good condition of those pictures, but this is only speculation.  And who would have the photos in the pocket? Was there somebody waiting for Andrée on the Polar Area? Or could one either another person of his journey stay alive? But this is pure speculation and the waste of time, an official explanation would be the best way to tell what happened to Andrée in 1897.

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