[kylebenzle]

Yes, for $1,000,000,000/bottle.

I imagine silk harvesting is already a difficult process, it being the most expensive natural fabric. Then add the step of doing it all in a laboratory environment, the increased regulation and scrutiny. Thats all assume that the technology to make bottle out of silk already exists, if not of course that technology would have to be developed.

[millerhooks]

They just collect the cocoons of the caterpillar. It’s already pretty industrialized. Farmers grow mulberry bushes and feed the worms and collect the pods. This would be no different. Just a slightly different worm.

People do it as a hobby at home and scaling it is a known process already scaled.

[sethammons]

You realize you can buy silk at Walmart, yeah? Just a new breed of worm for super-silk.