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Posted by Warm Worm on August 11, 2008, 5:24 pm
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> > > There is an approach called "continuous pour" that iiuc is all about
> > > making sure the previous batch and the next batch get confused and
> > > think they are part of the same piece of concrete. Let me poke the we=
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> > > and see what it says... iirc St. Louis arch, CN Tower... that sort of
> > > thing, benefit from this tech.
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> > > Right, that bit of research didn't help. And my books are all packed
> > > up right now. Maybe somebody else can add real info. Talking about
> > > moving/crawling/walking forms might be interesting too, hint hint.
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> > Slipform:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipform--concreteextrusion.
> > Cool...
> > I think that's kind of how spider-webs work too...
> > "Although silk is produced as a liquid within the silk glands, it
> > usually emerges from the spigots (as the spider moves away from an
> > attachment point or pulls the silk out with its leg claws and
> > bristles) as solid silk fibres. Different parts of the silk gland
> > secrete different types of proteins (spidroins) into the gland cavity.
> > These form an inner core and then outer sheathing layers. The very
> > viscous silk flows as a liquid crystal fluid through a long,
> > progressively narrowing duct whose lining cells extract water from the
> > protein. It is then subjected to a mild acidic bath and increased
> > pulling stress which help convert the liquid protein into a solid
> > fibre."
> > --http://www.amonline.net.au/spiders/toolkit/silk/factories.htm
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> > ...http://cannabis.net/drug-webs.html
> > I think I'll try extra-hard this week to quit caffeine.
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> Here's one that was fed Big Macs...http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldn=
ews/1572474/Spider-'attacks'-Na...
Corrrect.
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