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Military Develops Liquid Body Armor
kai5263499 writes "Military.com has an article about a new liquid body armor the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has developed. According to Dr. Eric Wetzel, the project coordinator: 'The key component of liquid armor is a shear thickening fluid. STF is composed of hard particles suspended in a liquid. The liquid, polyethylene glycol, is non-toxic, and can withstand a wide range of temperatures. Hard, nano-particles of silica are the other components of STF. This combination of flowable and hard components results in a material with unusual properties'."
Like silly-putty or cornstarch and water.
It's actually surprising no-one has figured this out sooner. (or maybe the idea has been around a long time but the perfect materials were the key).
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one day? we have the ability now. ICBM.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
All but one of the guys who dropped the nukes committed suicide.
Post some factual references please. Oh wait, your statement is utter bullshit so you can't possibly have any factual references. Nervermind.
I, for one, welcome our new impenetrable, goo-covered overlords.
(Hey, someone had to say it).
You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house.
...that we used to mix when I was a kid. It was liquid until pressure was applied at which point it became sort of solid. Cool stuff. I remember "rolling" it into a ball and smacking it with a hammer which caused it to shatter. Then the pieces would "melt" into little puddles. It made the perfect weapon. You could roll it into a hard ball and bean someone with it, after which it would fall onto the ground and melt into the grass. What fun.