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139: The Science of Spider-Man

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4.9632 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2021

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In honour of Spider-Man: No Way Home we have taken it upon ourselves to create a real life Spider-Man. Or at the very least, figure out how what might be possible. 

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References & Further Reading

Spider-Man
  1. https://www.britannica.com/art/comic-book
Spiders
  1. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/animals/invertebrates/facts/spiders
  2. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/aug/09/ask-grown-up-spiders-stick-walls-ceilings
  3. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/trade-secret-of-sticky-sp/
Radiation
  1. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-basics
  2. https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-health-effects
  3. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/060418-chernobyl-wildlife-thirty-year-anniversary-science
Soft Exosuits
  1. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/epoly-2020-0049/html
  2. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/exosuit-sri-robotics-darpa-soldiers
Spider Silk
  1. https://www.britannica.com/science/elasticity-physics
  2. https://www.britannica.com/science/tensile-strength
  3. https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/epoly-2020-0049/html
Gecko Gloves
  1. https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/november/gecko-inspired-device-112114.html
Spider Sense
  1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/02/23/prototype-suit-gives-you-real-life-spider-sense/amp/

Transcript

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0:00.0

What are we starting with this week?

0:02.0

A Spotify update.

0:04.0

Correct.

0:05.0

So we are not doing a normal Spotify update.

0:07.0

I want to give a little shout out to someone on Twitter called Lulu, who has been listening

0:12.0

to Cy Guys enough that they have listened to 17,865 minutes of Sci Guys.

0:19.0

Does anyone want to hazard a guess at how many, no, no calculator.

0:22.6

Okay. How many hours that is?

0:24.6

How many hours? So it's that divided by 60, surely.

0:27.6

Yeah. So, that's still a lot. Just under 30 hours.

0:32.6

Yeah, that is, uh, that is just another errors. And 300 hours, that is 297 hours.

0:40.3

Sorry, I said 30 hours.

0:41.3

Did you see 30?

0:42.3

Just under 300 hours, 297 hours, 7.75.

0:46.3

And then how many days do you reckon that is?

0:49.3

12.4.

0:51.3

Oh, 12.4 days of Sci guys.

0:53.3

That is incredible. Yeah, and 119 episodes.

0:56.0

That's almost every episode.

0:58.0

Great work.

0:59.0

Incredible.

1:00.0

Well done.

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