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Israeli Company Creates Nano-Armor
Izeickl writes "According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic fullerene-like nanostructures (IFs) which have amazing shock absorbing properties. During preliminary tests, these materials, which are five times stronger than steel, have successfully resisted to steel projectiles generating pressures as high as 250 tons per square centimeter. These materials could be incorporated in "nanoarmors" able to protect soldiers or police forces within three years."
SPEAK FUCKING ENGLISH
Any possible chemical reaction isn't going to make "Depleted Uranium" (sic) perform any differently. My understanding is that depleted uranium is used for it's density and strength, you can fit more weight and energy into a physically smaller and stronger round.
Don't capitalize nouns unless you are using proper nouns, is the first word in a sentence or you are writing German.
You have lots of people working on research projects. Please stop letting them issue press releases announcing their WORLD-SHATTERING PRODUCT OF TEH FUTURE!!!!! when it's really only a preliminary experiment that is as yet completely unable to shatter the world.
"...always new atoms but always doing the same dance, remembering what the dance was yesterday." -Richard Feynman
Maybe we can have a poll and start links to this and others?
The stupidity of the OP is just insane. Lets not give the armor to the people that need it the most, and who are the frontline defenders of our freedom (NO MATTER WHAT COUNTRY). Whether or not you agree with the Iraq war is completely irrelevant.
You, sir (I say this VERY loosely), need to move to a country without a military if you feel this way. That, or just go somewhere like North Korea and have fun. If you live in a free country, then be happy that your stupid ass was allowed to be born and move on with your life, because your incredible sense of strategy and logic was doing something else when stupidity was creeping into your brain.
I haven't submitted this story to Slashdot on Dec. 11 because I thought I didn't offer enough added value to the IsraCast article, except for different pictures and a few different references. But at least, I wrote the introduction myself, the one that Izeickl has completely duplicated --stolen??. Check for yourself by reading my my short version (on my blog) and my long version (for ZDNet.com) of "The nanoarmor of the future." Izeickl, what about sticking to laptop reviews? And if you move outside your domain, why don't you quote the sources you're using?