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[–] [email protected] 1 points 40 minutes ago

100 trillion barry bonds

[–] [email protected] 0 points 36 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 32 minutes ago

I did your mom stronger

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I can't wait to find out how toxic this is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

The article says the process is scalable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

Good news, it costs 2 million dollars per square foot, so they won't militarise the police further with it.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

....and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

You mispronounced promote American interests.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago

This is still basic research, it's not close to commercialization.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The armor works perfectly fine as long as it's not exposed to oxygen. But when's that ever going to happen?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 minutes ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Layer it with Kevlar and good?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

So this is what John Wick had in his suit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I loved those movies but they went way to hard into that suit in the later movies. I got ridiculous lol.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

They did Rambo the franchise a bit.

[–] Grandwolf319 110 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

Now this is a technology post!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago

hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails

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