http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/ Engadget Comments for Inhabitat's Week in Green: lenses that magnify wind, spider silk bacteria, and the largest solar sports facility http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Brown one!]]>Aug 8th 2010 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/

If we can get some synchronized swimmers in each one of those... now THAT would be something!]]>Aug 9th 2010 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/its like soda can holders... but instead whales get caught when you leave these in the ocean lol]]>Aug 9th 2010 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 10:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/
niiice]]>Aug 9th 2010 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/exclude/green/?]]>Aug 8th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/But then he'll see the word green every time he looks at his address bar]]>Aug 9th 2010 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/
Obviously he's been thrown in the dumpster one too many times in high school!]]>Aug 9th 2010 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/
Of course, they can be playing with the "Seafarers" rules. I don't know that much about the expansions.]]>Aug 8th 2010 11:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 8th 2010 11:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/then it is the worst idea.
E. Coli has evolved , live and multiply in many places including our digestive tube.
I can already foresee huge plagues, and new diseases with that line of thinking:
what will happen when they infect human ?
producing that silk across parts of our bodies.
how about they pathology level?
....

they should only be allowed to use proven non-human bacterias, research their impact on human: say things that sulfur based bacterias, so we are sure their metabolism cannot fit ours (hopefully)]]>Aug 9th 2010 12:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Biologists are anal about contamination, all our samples are incinerated after the lab. But knowing science it probably takes ultra specific substrates under certain conditions, or the e. Coli wont produce enough to even be note worthy.

Plus, whats wrong with being like Spiderman?]]>Aug 9th 2010 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/I fully agree with you.
what scares me is not the research phase, from the biologists.
no! instead it is the production phase, then, it is done by commercial companies, and then the risk of out-of-lab contamination is pretty high. Even if not then, once it makes money, there will be other companies getting into it, with fake "copies" without proper risk handling, or stolen bacterias that will be put to production in less than safe conditions.

no I am not living in a tinfoil house. this is happening everyday (when you go to factories for a tour , say like one that makes chips for the SIM cards. why do you think you have to wear overshoes, and no ties allowed.... not only for clean environment (that one you'll only see through a window) but because tricks exists, as simple as shoes with soles that can grab dust, so you can analyze the compounds and percentages of these used in the production lines.
the tie: for bending over a basin of liquids, so you know the concentration of every component there.

well, that stage is the one that is worrisome.

hehe: I love to throw my silk every so often, but not inside my own body. :-D]]>Aug 9th 2010 1:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Oh I just realized that E.coli does live in our bodies but there a couple strains, of which only one we pick up in our lifetime, after than our bodies fights off any E.coli other strains. They only have to engineer a strain that no human can possibly have and that would solve the risk of silk excreting e.coli in our body.]]>Aug 9th 2010 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Luckily, your concern regarding human disease is completely unfounded.
Firstly, you have suggested that producing spider silk inside the human body would be worse for humans than the already existing strains that produce toxins. (I'll give you a hint, its probably not)
Secondly, the action of producing spider silk will require a lot of energy. This means the bacteria will be able to put less energy into reproduction etc etc which means it will be a less effective pathogen.]]>Aug 9th 2010 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 3:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/The only feasible and logical approach to "generating" not "making" electrical power at an abundant capacity so that it's price point aka price per kilowatt hour is less than or equal to the cheapest region within the Continental united states is Nuclear/Coal.
Now rate me down because i burst your emotional bubble waking you up to reality.]]>Aug 9th 2010 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 3:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Or Gateways. Make an army of Zealots and Stalkers in no time :D]]>Aug 9th 2010 4:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 9:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/26/maglev-wind-turbines-1000x-more-effiencient-than-normal-windmill/]]>Aug 9th 2010 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/08/inhabitats-week-in-green-lenses-that-magnify-wind-spider-silk/Aug 9th 2010 4:00PM