Spider silk is one of the most durable natural materials on the planet. Kevlar, of which body armor is made, is weaker than the stuff spiders produce inside their bodies. It’s hard to believe because if you’ve ever touched the spider web, you realized you can easily break it. That’s because spiders secrete a very thin layer of silk. Most metals would break in no time as well at such thickness.

The good news is that there are no huge spiders on our planet, which means you can’t get stuck in their trap. The bad news is that if thousands of spiders with the strongest silk in the world join together and weave a single big web, you’re in trouble. Let's imagine you got into the biggest spider web in the world. You hang in the air. Thousands of web strands vibrate and give the spiders a signal that their dinner is here. You don’t have a dagger or a machete to cut yourself free. The first thing you need to do is save your strength and energy. The more you resist, the more entangled you get...

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