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Figure 9


Fig. 9. Graph of static safety factor (SBW) against breaking strain as in Fig. 1 but scaled for the silk data. Curves for bungee jumping (solid line) and a worst case (broken line) were included to predict whether silk of a known SBW and strain at failure would support a spider successfully under these conditions. Silk with properties that place them in the gray area below the solid line would not survive a bungee jump, while only silk above both lines would survive a worst-case scenario.





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