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Originally Posted by StevenH
Do you have a source for the note about the inferiority of the rope? Everything I have been able to find puts a human(oid) hair rope as being pretty good, with a pretty favorable strength to weight ratio.
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I was actually going by this discussion, and was comparing it to silk. In retrospect, silk was perhaps an unfair choice for rope. It looks like human hair compared to typical rope material (at least to nylon) is pretty good as you said.
By the way, a friend of mine was in a survival class. Students could choose one type of wire to take with them on a survival exercise, and she chose piano wire. Looking at the link below, I can see why (it deals with human hair as well).
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1693