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If A Person Had Skin, Organs, and Muscle With The Same Strength and Stretchiness as Spider Silk Would They Be Super Durable?


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Spider silk has 5 times the tensile strength than steel at the same diameter strand. Steel is about 1 Newton per square meter compared to spider silk which about 5 newtons per square meter. Additionally, spider silk can elongate 35–50% its length before snapping compared to 8% steel.

So imagine a scifi alien humanoid of average height and weight with skin and muscle fibers that had those properties but weight is normal for a human (180 kilograms).

Would they have superhuman abilities at all?

My Analysis: Yes. I think. But to be truly super their bones would need to be stronger still than their muscles so the muscles  would not crush them. The bones would not be able to stretch like the muscle and organs, but they would need to be strong enough to withstand the pressure put upon them by the muscles.

 

Thoughts?

I assume they would be bullet proof more or less but it would still cause them pain if they were shot and they would get knocked down from the force alone.

So superman-lite basically. Super durable to piercing attacks, but still vulnerable to chemical and heat attacks.

 

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3 hours ago, insert_name said:

No, most of the forces from a bullet are shear or compressive, not tensile. 

Tensile strength is involved also, ask  level iv armor makers why they use aramid fiber and are researching things like spider silk 

4 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

ut to be truly super their bones would need to be stronger still than their muscles so the muscles  would not crush them

I'm going to put adamantium out there before another Wolverine fan does

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4 hours ago, Spacescifi said:

Steel is about 1 Newton per square meter compared to spider silk which about 5 newtons per square meter.

You're a few orders of magnitude off.

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