[chrisfarms]

    > exactly how the spiders incorporate carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes into their silk is not clear

This confuses me. Surely they must've had some kind of hypothesis for this, or are they just going around spraying all kinds of creatures hoping they gain super-powers?

[dedward]

Well, spiders eat stuff, and poop out magic thread.

So change their diet, you change the thread...

[chrisfarms]

Luckily for all those times I've walked face first into a spider's web:

Spider silk != Poop