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Originally Posted by Anthony
Probably not. The strength of spider silk is significantly a factor of spinneret design which likely would not scale like that (we can produce spider silk with genetic engineering, but it doesn't have the performance of natural silk).
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I think he's merely scaling them up for quantity of silk generated, not thickness of strand. They'd still likely create as narrow a strand, just have a greater capacity to generate silk (having a greater mass, silk generation takes a lesser toll on the spider).