2006-08-28 03:54:15 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Considering that spiders have been around for about 400 million years, and there are billions of spiders around at any one time, and each of them can easily produce several feet of silk a day, let's do some simple math:
Say six feet of silk a day per spider (some will make a lot more, but many will make less or no silk), and say about 200 days of silk production (many spiders do not make silk in the winter) = 1200 feet of silk per spider x 10 billion spiders (probably way, way low) = 12 trillion feet of silk per year x 400 million years = 909 quadrillion miles of silk, or about 155,000 light years which would be about 1.5 times the width of our galaxy.
That's a lot of silk.
2006-08-28 05:19:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmmmm it would be exactly 7,567,324,012,34 spider yards long........
2006-08-28 05:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by (^_^) 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cannot be ascertained.
2006-08-28 04:21:10 · answer #3 · answered by ag_iitkgp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
47674635834757634 m
2006-08-28 04:18:24 · answer #4 · answered by swati 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋