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"And this is where the fall of the Human race starts..."

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It's true, I saw it in a film.

I think you over-estimate how interesting you all are.

Probably create a new 100 volume book collection of work... "UKchatforums Case Study Volumes 1 - 100"

Not likely if he could make a shedload of money from it.

pb wrote:
> So you have a thing about firing sticky substances out of guns.
> hmmm. ;-)

Something on your mind ? :P I think Freud would probably commit suicide (if he wsa still alive of course) trying to figure these forums out...

Yup, I was wondering what Freud would have to say about that too. :)

Belldandy wrote:
> > I believe that there is a less-than-lethal weapons system based on
> the idea of a spiders web....Another version I believe uses the liquid and is fired like a water
> gun -

So you have a thing about firing sticky substances out of guns. hmmm. ;-)

Grix Thraves wrote:
> Caveman 1: "I call this, the 'wheel'."
>
> Caveman 2: "It's the beginning of the end!"
>
> *caveman 2 clubs caveman 1, pushes wheel and bums around
> neighbourhood with phat speaker system*

LOL. Damn those Sumerians and their infernal wheels...

"Hey, I've got it! Created the stickiest substance known to man!"

"Really Geoff? Pass it here, let's have a look"

"Here it is....it won't come off!"

"Ha, he always falls for that one"

Ah, but spider silk can also be solidified into a substance several times more durable than steel, and hence its potential uses as armour or munitions should not be discounted.

So much we know, so little we do about it.

Hmm, if they were really smart they wouldn't bomb :)

I believe that there is a less-than-lethal weapons system based on the idea of a spiders web in use/development by the US Military (others may also be looking at it but I only read about the UK/USA forces). Whilst the liquid which is used is nowhere near the thin material of spiders silk is does stick to the target and does not allow the target to squirm around, once you're hit you stay stuck to the web as it hit you. This is the version which fires a sticky substance which forms a net similar to a web.

Another version I believe uses the liquid and is fired like a water gun - onto targets and sticking them in place or at the very least hindering movement.

Come to think about it I'm puzzled why no one has deployed some of the vast piles of less-than-lethal weaponry the UK and USA has to Iraq - it was after all designed, and had the budgets justified, in the context of it's potential to be used in urban settings where the intention was to avoid friendly fire/harming a partly hostile local population.