Posted on 06/03/2017 12:20:05 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
The composite armor on an M1 or Challenger tank are also nothing new — but the exact arrangement of the plates, and their spacing are very much secret and the reason it works. Arrange them a little differently and it doesn’t work so well.
Thanks for the mention.
I’m not familiar with them myself.
Thanks for the mention.
I’m not familiar with them myself.
In theory yes, but not like you seem to be.
Interesting stories!
Good questions.
Sounds possible, unfortunately.
Yes. The specific formula may be new, but the idea is not. The article linked below, "Liquid Body Armor," is from the Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science in November, 2013:
http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/11/liquid-body-armor/
Shear thickening fluid, colloquially known as “liquid body armor”, was developed in 2002 at the United States Army Research Laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland. Two scientists – Norman Wagner, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Delaware, and Eric Wetzel, a staff member at the laboratory – led the development team. The application for US Patent No. 7,226,878, the patent for “Advanced Body Armor Utilizing Shear Thickening Fluids,” was submitted in 2003 and issued four years later (2). Wagner and Wetzel were subseqently awarded the Paul A. Siple Award, the Army’s highest award for scientific achievement.
Interesting. Thanks for the link.
Note the date. She didn't come up with something new at all. Modified, perhaps, but not new.
New Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) enables flexible, comfortable armor August 12, 2006
Since warfare began, developing armor has been a balance between the need for protection and the need for comfort, flexibility and light weight. A new nanotechnology known as Shear Thickening Fluid (STF) created by scientists at ARL and UDTC looks set to provide the next generation of armor. STF has the ability to make ballistic fabrics highly resistant to penetration when impacted by a spike, knife or bullet without compromising their weight, comfort or flexibility.
I don't see what the big stink is.
After seeing other information on this, I join you in thinking this is less of brand new thinking than I thought it was.
They sure are pushing it for all it’s worth, most likely the gender angle.
Several others have addressed me to let me know this is not something “as new” as I had thought it to be.
I appreciate each of you doing it.
I like to have a reasoned understanding of reality, and it seems the reports on this woman’s work were not exactly forthcoming.
Aside...people sure got all wee-wwe'd up over covfefe, didn't they!
Yes. It’s a bit of an over-reaction, but when one guy actually proposes Trump be impeached over it, good grief.
I contribute to playing along just to stuff it in the Left’s face.
LOL, just noticed I have a type-o in there.
Ouch!
Thanks for the mention of a lot of grants and money to be had for the idea already.
There was much more to this idea than I thought. It’s one of the pluses to our forum that folks let others know of things like this.
Liberals are brain damaged.
Transmission dwell?
He's not too far off. But atomic fission is one of the effects, not the cause.
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