I can’t wait to find out how toxic this is.
…and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people
America bad
You mispronounced promote American interests.
I don’t know if this will actually pan out the way that they imply in the title; armor needs to have a lot of different characteristics in order to be practical. As in, resistance to heat and cold, resistance to acids, alkalines, petroleum distillates, salts, UV, and oxygen, and also resist deformation. Multiple materials have displays significant promise for armor, but had a very short lifespan in real-word conditions. For instance, there was a material trademarked as Zylon that was supposed to be better than Kevlar, and it was used extensively by Second Chance (a body armor company); several cops were killed when their armor failed, and the armor failed because of exposure to sweat and ambient heat.
Yeah, this is a super cool development, but remember that everything that comes out at this stage is hype.
The armor works perfectly fine as long as it’s not exposed to oxygen. But when’s that ever going to happen?
Yes… that’s why they use the word “could”. This is how research works and what reasonable science reporting looks like. There were no promises or wild claims made in the article.
Layer it with Kevlar and good?
It really depends on whether it can be made to meet all the other criteria required for armor. I think that it’s too early to make any good predictions.
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So this is what John Wick had in his suit
I loved those movies but they went way to hard into that suit in the later movies. I got ridiculous lol.
They did Rambo the franchise a bit.
Now this is a technology post!
I don’t know if I’d call materials science technology, exactly, but it’s certainly more on topic than “business but at a tech company” posts.
Yeah, everyone knows that technology only involves computers and they’re basically just made out of metal and not some fancy material.
Of course material science is technology lol
Wow what a stupid comment. Materials science is technology.
Cutting edge materials science and manufacturing is 100% technology.
I only acknowledge technological advancements made in writing utensils. Keyboards and Typewriters do NOT count. So don’t even get me started
Yeah yeah we get it, everyone is wrong but you and all that.
That’s ludicrous, because that’s true for me and not them.
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hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails
Surely I can’t be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that DNA is not a particularly effective armor.
Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉
Please, could we move to Known Space?
Could this be used to make a space elevator?
I think I remember reading that a structure strong enough would have to be wider than the earth
The stronger the material the thinner it could be.
There are a lot of properties in the word ‘stronger’ though.
No.
What about a space escalator?
Escalator is smart, because if it breaks, you can still walk to space.
I heard it was for lifts only
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China, please respect this secret. Its made up with grapheme threads. Its impossible to understand exactly so we made a little picture with the molecules and such so you can’t copy it.
