comfort, vitality, humanity and mutanity

Jun 18, 2008 14:16

Spider-Man's web shooters represent a ridiculously advanced knowledge of materials science. So why didn't more of his solutions to problems involve chemistry and garage industrial design? He could have been a blue collar Bruce Wayne, making cottage industry spida-rangs out of his spare office.

Maybe all the science stuff flew out of his head the moment the radioactive spider spit rearranged his nucleic acids. Or maybe he just got old and settled down and got soft. Stuck with what worked. Web nets and gymnastics all day, with the Spidey-sense to help handle any gaps in the plan. Why mess with it?

Maybe all the brightest did their best work in their early-to-mid-twenties because that is the point at which they were just hustling to survive. High school guidance counseling is bankrupt if it doesn't cover a broad-strokes overview of risk management.

creativity, spiderman, risk, comics

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