of course, yes. I'd assume, though, that such an impact trauma probably is better than a freely bleeding hole in your body? Not quite sure Internal bleeding is no joke either. You could probably reinforce in similar ways muscle tissue and perhaps bones too. (On the show they also mentioned super strong bone replacement, however, that'd not be living, i.e. it wouldn't produce blood plate as our bones do.)
Not only do people produce large quantities of spider silk in, amongst other methods, goat milk.
They also work on using this silk to essentially make bullet-proof skin.
Currently what they do is put a mesh of spider silk in a petri dish and then let skin cells grow over this mesh. The result is patches of skin strong enough to withstand slow-moving bullets (e.g. pistol bullets).
http://www.frankensteinmd.com/...
Look at the corner of the wall in the cathedral. They ARE using the voxel engine in that video. It doesn't look as great as they try to make it sound though. Lots of artifacts from scanning etc. Perhaps it could be made to work if they went in and hand-edited those faults.
Meanwhile, in the forest footage, which seems to be scanned at higher resolution, you can see how nothing at all moves.
As for animation, a while ago, sadly on a different computer, I actually got a video of an animated hummingbird from them. That was before they went into their current ultra-stealth-mode.
Provided that that video was not fake (it certainly didn't look like it), they can indeed do animations just fine. Though I'm not sure why they wouldn't just show that off already.
Some guy said he interviewed them and he'd soon release that interview. Maybe that contains more info than those super pretentious, not-as-real-looking-as-they-wish videos.
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of course, yes. I'd assume, though, that such an impact trauma probably is better than a freely bleeding hole in your body? Not quite sure Internal bleeding is no joke either. You could probably reinforce in similar ways muscle tissue and perhaps bones too. (On the show they also mentioned super strong bone replacement, however, that'd not be living, i.e. it wouldn't produce blood plate as our bones do.)
Not only do people produce large quantities of spider silk in, amongst other methods, goat milk. They also work on using this silk to essentially make bullet-proof skin. Currently what they do is put a mesh of spider silk in a petri dish and then let skin cells grow over this mesh. The result is patches of skin strong enough to withstand slow-moving bullets (e.g. pistol bullets). http://www.frankensteinmd.com/...
Look at the corner of the wall in the cathedral. They ARE using the voxel engine in that video. It doesn't look as great as they try to make it sound though. Lots of artifacts from scanning etc. Perhaps it could be made to work if they went in and hand-edited those faults. Meanwhile, in the forest footage, which seems to be scanned at higher resolution, you can see how nothing at all moves. As for animation, a while ago, sadly on a different computer, I actually got a video of an animated hummingbird from them. That was before they went into their current ultra-stealth-mode. Provided that that video was not fake (it certainly didn't look like it), they can indeed do animations just fine. Though I'm not sure why they wouldn't just show that off already. Some guy said he interviewed them and he'd soon release that interview. Maybe that contains more info than those super pretentious, not-as-real-looking-as-they-wish videos.