Archive for December, 2009
According to a Wiki search, Spider silk is a remarkably strong material with a tensile strength superior to high grade steel. Ductile, too, being able to stretch up to 140% of any given length. Spider silk is extremely lightweight: a strand of spider silk long enough to circle the Earth would weigh less than 500 grams . So it’s little wonder that this web survived the whole night, and well [ Read More ]
June this year saw a great field of talented, crazy drivers take up the challenge of trying to out do each other on terrain reserved for the, well, unreserved. So with shaking hands, and thumping hearts, they took the hills, all the while chanting mantras under their breath. If you listened closely, you’d hear murmurs of, “Whooo saaahhh’, and , “I will not roll today…I will not roll today…”. Alas, [ Read More ]









