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Artificial Spiderweb Parachute

 Spiders "balloon" with them, why cant we
 
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I suppose creating an artificial "spiderweb" type of material will be much lighter than carying a parachute/glider. So if I can get enough out in time, I can make better, lighter parachutes / gliders.

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—pashute, Oct 21 2007

giant spiderweb found http://www.scienced...09/070912145919.htm
also shows ballooning (If you didn't read it in Wilbur when you were a kid) [pashute, Oct 21 2007]

google gives many results for artificial spider webs http://www.google.c...artifical+spiderweb
Not that expensive either. [pashute, Oct 21 2007]

http://www.cartoons...lowres/dpan672l.jpg [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Oct 21 2007]

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       Great idea. You just know that it'll happen someday, but it was thought up years ago.   

       The cartoon shows an idea that wouldn't work. I'm serious about this idea, and it of course will not look at all like a single web. The idea is to have a "cloud like" canopy, emitted from a cansister.
—pashute, Oct 22 2007
   

       Methinks your cannister will be as large and carry enough substance under pressure (or more) as an equivalent hydrogen/helium cannister and balloon, and of course, let us not forget tensile strength. It is probably easy to eject enough surface area to slow you down *but* you have to remain tethered, else there is not much point. Any chain is as strong as its weakest link.
—4whom, Oct 22 2007
   
      
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