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Coming back to an empty spot where you left your bicycle is a frustrating experience. This no longer need be the case.
For those of you unfamiliar with the spidergoat experiment, someone went to the trouble of modifying the proteins in goats' milk, so they could be manipulated to create thread similar
to spider silk on a grand scale.
In this bicycle, a number of special spinnerets are located in the frame and handlebars, all aimed toward the rider. In the event of someone mounting your bicycle and not disarming the alarm device, it activates, swathing the would-be thief in skeins of sticky silk, rendering them immobile and placing an emergency call to the local police, to come and collect the bike-rustler.
The thief waits in abject fear, assuming a gigantic spider has bundled them up for a liquid lunch.
The one that got away.
http://tooplyshy.mu...b7m6woKCqIAAFRbe4c1
[2 fries shy of a happy meal, Feb 06 2008]
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C'mon, mate, you can do better than this! You're just channeling Multiply images. |
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Nowhere does the writeup include the genetic modification of a bicycle. Looks to me like you need some pressure switches and small fluid pumps and this ought to work. Use the bicycle body tubes as a reservoir, fill with a solution like silly string and Voila! |
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Is that where I got the image from, [DC]? I knew it was in there but I couldn't identify the source. |
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[NE], that's pretty much how I imagined it. |
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Yeah, and good luck finding it, with Multiply's pitiful search features! |
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Does whatever a spidergoat does... |
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I don't think the spider silk protein from the goats milk is sticky. |
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This idea is a bit less stupid than the
derivative "Spidergoat Bicycle Frame" one. |
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Oi! "a bit less stupid"? Bah - and double bah! |
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Ooops. I'm sorry. I meant to say that the
Spidergoat Bicycle Frame was more stupid
than this one. Apologies for any
confusion. |
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UnaBubba, why did you delete my comment? |
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I assumed that by spinneret he meant a spiders, since the idea involves spider web. |
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A spinneret of this type is a part of a spider, that is why my comment, that was deleted because I guess the writer didn't like it, hinted at the genetic modifictation of a bike. |
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If I wanted my bike to grab someone, I couldn't just take human hands and glue them to the bike hoping it would work. |
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I deleted your comment by accident, I guess. I don't recall where it was in the conversation. |
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My idea was to pressurise the frame of the bicycle, fill selected parts of it with synthetic (spidergoat) silk and fit that to a series of artificial spinnerets, triggered once the bike was moved without the security code. |
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No genetic modification (except the goats, which is existing technology) just a weird application of new tech to an existing problem. |
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Spidergoat Bicycle Theft Protection warning label: "O, what a tangled web you'll strike, When first you try to steal this bike". |
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<apologies to Sir Walter Scott> |
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//The thief waits in abject fear, assuming a gigantic spider has bundled them up for a liquid lunch.// |
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why just "assuming" ? for that matter just gengineer the goat a bit larger and it could either homefed or forage while you're at work. |
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The first part of the name sounds like a Vonnegut book. (The Spidergoat Bicycle.) |
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