How peter uses his web shooters
Let's have a close look on theory science behind spider-man looks like we're hitting a triple women with spire man these past few videos we did a lecturer we're looking at web shooters now and that's subway in the future we'll have you on the Green Goblin but let's put all that aside for now because we need to get to our question how do you Spidey's web shooters work this is going to be a short article because well it's actually not all that complicated it's interesting and certainly took a good hour to a research but it's simple so the first question you to ask ourselves is way before we even get to the mechanical aspect of web shooters of course in this case we're under the assumption that Spiderman has mechanical web-shooters instead of biological ones.
Now about how Peter Parker could potentially create his own webbing however since that isn't the case here we're left with little to no information on exactly what the webbing is made of all the way down a whole lot of info from media itself we do have some pretty good examples from real life here's a few examples of just how strong spider-man's webbing is in fact I don't think that I've ever seen the web break if I have it would likely cut by some kind of sharp edge because otherwise that stuff whatever it is is extremely powerful so what do we know about the webbing well we know it's adhesive which is another way of just saying sticky and it's very very durable it's also able to be thinned down to the width of a string give or take some of that thickness but where should we look for that industrial materials everyday objects synthetic science actually a lot like the rest of Spider Man this one takes its inspiration from nature take a look at this little article this is talking about a new kind of adhesive that bacteria create there's a tease of material producing the flagella of the bacteria is actually strong enough to hold up five tons worth of cars at once that's some durable stuff right there as far as I can tell there's no name for it yet but it might be a kind of amyloid from what I've seen amyloid ZAR Fiber.
This ZAR fiber like structure is similar to string you could say that it produced by some forms of e.coli bacteria these molecules that make the amyloid are actually automatic they will arrange themselves without any outside force however there's not a whole lot to go on with this theory because people like Peter Parker just don't have access to e.coli in fact e coli is considered one of the deadliest forms of bacteria in some cases I don't care if you're a scientist like Peter Parker that stuff isn't touchable by someone living in an apartment in Queens you probably need a full-on lab to keep yourself safe so Amy Lloyd's are off the list another culprit however could be Isis Isis is an adhesive produced by muscles this substance lets them stick the sides of rocks and other surfaces but again we hit a brick wall Isis works well underwater but it isn't perfect when exposed to oxygen at the rate that web shoots out of the web-shooter that's a lot of oxygen it's exposing itself to in a short amount of time so bye sis isn't our webbing either in this case I'm gonna go ahead and say the first notion we had the one was have a bacteria producing a thus far unmade adhesive is the correct one now you're probably thinking that that example and the one with E coli are the same but they aren't and here's why the bacteria that produces the adhesive is called
caulobacter crescentus and it's aquatic meaning it thrives and lives in places that are underwater you know places like New York City have fountains and rivers heck New York City itself comes into contact with the ocean sound like we found the tiny little guys that make the webbing so how does someone get that stuff into the web-shooter this would be a pretty daunting task more time-consuming than anything it's a matter of collecting the bacteria extracting the adhesive from them and collecting enough of it to create webbing that might take a lot of time and buy a lot of time I mean possibly years depending on what your day is like but hey when you want something bad enough you go for it right plus there are certain ways to replicate molecules naturally it might be the case that a farm for these bacteria would help out heck you could even probably just extract a bunch of it from the water and cut your years down to weeks so we know what the webbing is so now we get to the simpler portion what are the mechanics of web-shooter how does it sling webs there's a lot of ways this could work my personal theory is that the web shooters work on a system relying on air pressure picture it like a balloon when the balloon deflates the gas and the balloon is sucked into the atmosphere even if the balloon you're opening has already deflated a little the gas still whizzes right out at a pretty strong rate too here's how I think it works the webbing inside the shooter is kept in a small little container while mechanics in the web-shooter caused the web to be spun around sort of like a kite spinner at the end of the web-shooter there's a lid of some kind that's attached to a pressure pad which is where Peters fingers connect to his palm in the iconic hand movement when pressed the pressure pad lifts up the lid in lucky deflating balloon the air and the end of the web shoot out of the small opening at a rate powerful enough to shoot a fair distance and attached objects this is probably best demonstrated in 2012's
the amazing spider-man the web shooters are the right shape to contain the spinning mechanics the ends could most certainly serve as lids and even shouldn't the website doesn't reach all the way due to it either running out or simply not having enough pole to lift it further however the new MCU spider-man shows off another feature that suggests our conclusions the web once it reaches a certain distance becomes Wilder spreads in a little messy looking unlike the Amazing Spider man's clean-cut string like webs this suggests the material used to create the weapon was indeed spliced together although is all the same material different portions of it had to be combined resulting in a slightly less stable web and there you have it of course there's other ways the web shooters could work and this is definitely just one of those many ways make sure.
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