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'."

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Terminate!

[blackmonday]

In other news, Skynet just got a little closer to completion today...Yikes!

Ewwww.

[Mateito]

First word that came into my mind was "bukkake".

TGIF.

Thank you.

[John Courtland]

See, these are the answers I like, and I appreciate, because instead of getting into all the chemical formulas that I don't have time for at the present, I can ask a 20 second question and get a good descriptive answer. Not these knee-jerk "Water has oxygen and hydrogen, that must mean it's explosive, aahhh I'm a fuckin' flamer!!!" comments. Please. I'm obviously smart enough to realize that if Ethyleve Glycol is toxic, what makes it toxic. The liver metabolizes it into formaldehyde, and drinking ethanol or ethyl alcohol is the best way to stop it. Drinking beer after a lung of coolant vapor is an old mechanics trick. I simply didn't realize the Poly meant it was a 100% different chemical. I thought poly meant "many", not "change the whole damn molecular structure." So in conclusion, thank you to the people that actually wrote intelligent responses, and the rest of you can think up some more brain dead responses.

Re:Liquid Armor

[John Courtland]

I whole heartedly agree with dropping the bomb. Operation Olympic was looking at losses of over 25 million. I'm just saying that the people who flew the bombs over japan were too involved. Killing 100,000 people isn't as simple as killing 1.