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Liquid armour is now a thing, and it stops bullets better than Kevlar
Science Alert ^
| 10 APR 2015
| FIONA MACDONALD
Posted on 04/21/2015 8:48:47 AM PDT by stickandrudder
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To: stickandrudder
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04/21/2015 8:49:59 AM PDT
by
rfreedom4u
(Chris Stevens won't be running for president.)
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To: stickandrudder
I saw a video of this stuff and it’s pretty neat. Who wants to volunteer to put on a vest and test it out? :>} Bullet “proof” vest don’t protect you from head shots.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:53:05 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
To: stickandrudder
But if you spill it on the floor it becomes a bad-guy assassin cop.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:53:07 AM PDT
by
Dagnabitt
(Islamic Immigration is Treason)
To: rfreedom4u
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04/21/2015 8:53:30 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: rktman
If I have the time and opportunity, I always inform that I aim for the crotch.
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04/21/2015 8:55:13 AM PDT
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MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: stickandrudder
Thanks for the article and science news site.
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:56:28 AM PDT
by
MarchonDC09122009
(When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
To: stickandrudder
The Russians put a bug inside the Polish lab that invented the material. Here’s what they heard:
“Engineer 1: Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid. So is toothpaste.
Engineer 2: Good. I’m using that stuff.
Engineer 3: Hey, can you point this .50 cal Desert Eagle at my chest and pull the trigger while I test this thing?”
To: MarineBrat
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posted on
04/21/2015 8:58:08 AM PDT
by
advertising guy
( panties - not the best thing on earth, but next to it .)
To: stickandrudder
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04/21/2015 8:58:28 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: stickandrudder
Karatands
For all you older Sci-fi fans out there.
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posted on
04/21/2015 9:00:23 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: stickandrudder
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posted on
04/21/2015 9:00:38 AM PDT
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PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: MarineBrat
Aiming at the crotch, is something out of Robo-Cop. If you have that much time to determine where ‘’center mass’’ is, you have time to empty your pistola
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04/21/2015 9:01:06 AM PDT
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shadeaud
(Be strong when you are weak and stand up for our Constitution.)
To: stickandrudder
I remember hearing about this years back. The minor problem is, if I recall correctly, once it’s hit, it goes solid and stays solid. So, if you got hit by one or two impacts, that’s not a problem. But if you got lots of impacts or one big impact, the body armor would become inflexible.
To: stickandrudder
Like the corn starch/ water experiment. Neat.
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posted on
04/21/2015 9:03:01 AM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(For every Allende, there is a Pinochet)
To: stickandrudder
I believe this technology exists for quite some time already, they aren’t first who have come with it.
Yet I haven’t seen any end product utilizing it.
To: Red Badger
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04/21/2015 9:06:12 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: shadeaud
Note that I “inform” that I aim for the crotch. :)
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04/21/2015 9:08:47 AM PDT
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MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Southern Magnolia
Doesn’t seem like an insurmountable problem, from an engineering standpoint.
For example, I imagine you could just separate the liquid into individual packets and layer them like scalemail, so you would get flexibility even after the liquid goes solid, and you could also get some redundant coverage as a bonus with an arrangement like that.
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