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"Everything starts as somebody's daydream. And, when you're daydreaming, it is science fiction. It's when you start work out how you put it together, true science fiction becomes real science."
- Larry Niven
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| Silksteel | ||
| Material that has high tensile strength as well as high flexibility. |
| "Until quite recently spider silk had the highest tensile strength known to man. And the name silksteel pays homage to the arachnid for good reason. -Commissioner Pravin Lal, 'U.N. Scientific Survey'" |
| Technovelgy from Alpha Centauri,
by Sid Meier. Published by Fraxis Games in 1999 Additional resources -
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Within the game, the applications include use in robotic factories and military armor.
Compare to synthetic spider silk from Misfit, a 1939 short story by Robert Heinlein.
Thanks to Gatomon41 for contributing this item.
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