I'm sure this is real, but I see a headline like that and I think of schoolyard talk. Like, nuh uh, my armour has 100 trillion bonds, you can't shoot me.
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I skimmed the article, scrolled down but people hasn't mentioned its mechanically Chain mail in atomic scale yet? Did I read it wrong?
Anyone know the cost per kilogram?
Edit: Apparently $20,000/kg
I can't wait to find out how toxic this is.
Good news, it’s completely non toxic.
Bad news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot.
The pentagon will now take your whole paycheck.
Thank you for your support, patriot.
Good news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot, so they won't militarise the police further with it.
Well not immediately… Years from now when the military develops something even better then this will all become surplus and sold off to SWAT teams etc. for next to nothing.
The article says the process is scalable.
They will make it into a mandatory dress uniform for school children.
With these bonds so dense, I want to imagine that it would actually be quite non-toxic as these is little to react with.
Then again, I'm not a bio chemist
....and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people
You mispronounced promote American interests.
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i could make stronger
Me when the only thing I eat all day is weed and cheese.
I did your mom stronger
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?
That by itself isn't terrible, that could still be used if it is sealed in something like an era brick if it's good enough.
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.
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Why don't they just use diamond, the hardest metal?
I thought Dragonforce was the hardest metal known to man?
Lol, this
Hardness isn't the best thing to have in armor. In fact, extreme hardness means extreme brittleness.
Tensile strength is more desirable in armor. That's the sort of strength that a string or rope, or Kevlar will have.
Those can stretch a bit before breaking.
Kevlar will stretch a bit when catching a bullet, this does a few things, but importantly it slows the bullet before stopping it.
So this new material will likely show extreme tensile strength rather than hardness.
Correct. 🙂 Reminds me of when I wanted new tires & I was complaining about how some tires were rated for a criminally short life. I wondered which ones lasted the longest.
The mechanic then remarked that sure, they can make tires that last a hell of a long time & never puncture. But the ride would be so terrible because the tires would be tough, stiff, would work your suspension harder, and it would cost a fortune to boot. It's not worth it. There are multiple material, usage considerations when making a product. Really makes you appreciate the experts in their various fields.
This is still basic research, it's not close to commercialization.
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.
My favorite part was when he held the jacket up like a curtain. The material may be bullet proof, but the bullet will still push it out of the way like that lol.
They did Rambo the franchise a bit.
Same with the Fast&Furious it used to be about import vs muscle and real street racing. Then it became jumping hyper cars from falling buildings to the next building over and turned to shit. Like most over milked series.
Waiiiit, was it actually meant to be about import vs muscle, like that was it's intention? Or did they just happen to do that.
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