To: Kent1957
The vest was my first thought. But also the opposite -- some science fiction discusses a weapon created through a mono-molecular sword. It's basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all.
As a sheet, this stuff could stop any bullet.
As a string, it could cut a steel girder (perhaps).
19 posted on
10/12/2013 1:08:22 PM PDT by
ClearCase_guy
(21st century. I'm not a fan.)
To: ClearCase_guy
It's basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all. In "Fountains of Paradise" Arthur C. Clarke used the idea of a super-thin, super-strong material that could be used to create a space elevator. At one point the man who wanted to build the elevator slices him thumb off with it.
20 posted on
10/12/2013 1:13:05 PM PDT by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: ClearCase_guy
It’s basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all.
Does your vorpal blade go “Snicker-Snack?”
30 posted on
10/12/2013 1:39:57 PM PDT by
Rides_A_Red_Horse
(Why do you need a fire extinguisher when you can call the fire department?)
To: ClearCase_guy; philetus
The vest was my first thought. But also the opposite -- some science fiction discusses a weapon created through a mono-molecular sword. It's basically a strong, impossibly thin weapon which simply slices through anything at all. Larry Niven had stuff like that in several stories. Stiffened by a force field, it's a sword. Flexible, it can be used to cut through things if you have a handle on each end (or a weight on one end which allows you to swing it).
42 posted on
10/12/2013 2:04:21 PM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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