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fit2rule on May 7, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Spiders Ingest Nanotubes, Then Weave Silk Reinforc...

We're not the best at making anything. We're pretty good at using things, though.

swores on May 7, 2015 [–]

I'm not sure that's strictly true. I've not yet heard of another species as good as us at making, for example, cars, or computers.

fit2rule on May 7, 2015 | [–]

There are some ways we could argue that turning dirt into a car is really just really, really, good using ..

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