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Electrostatically Charged Spider Silk
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This may help understand the charge and how it works. As well as serve to confuse. They skirted around mentioning Coulomb's law in those articles to avoid muddying the water so to speak. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostatics
Go down the page to the charge induction section for a simplified explanation of how the silk system is working.
For the nicely twisted people like myself, go watch the Buckaroo Banzai movie and Penny Priddy's explanation of how the Oscillation Overthruster works. She's correct and the silk extrusion mechanism could loosely be termed an oscillation overthruster operating at 8hz..
Go down the page to the charge induction section for a simplified explanation of how the silk system is working.
For the nicely twisted people like myself, go watch the Buckaroo Banzai movie and Penny Priddy's explanation of how the Oscillation Overthruster works. She's correct and the silk extrusion mechanism could loosely be termed an oscillation overthruster operating at 8hz..
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