[Fai Mao]

Maybe it can replace the &*^%^&$#! Carbon-Fiber in bicycle frames!

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I’m sure the DemoMarxist despots will find a way to ban it.

[AndyJackson]

fiber glass is really bad for the environment. It is silicon dioxide, which is the dangerous chemical making up 99% of beach sand. We need to get that out of our environment now. All of it.

[Steely Tom]

[House Atreides]

Stronger than steel but will the sun’s ultraviolet rays ultimately weaken and degrade it? Enquiring minds would want to know.

[Mouton]

Better have Scottie from the Enterprise check this substance out to determine if it is better than transparent aluminum.

[Wuli]

Is the energy-cost to produce within economically practical limits.

Many grand inventions turn out to be impractical when manufacturing costs get considered.

[OldWarBaby]

Fireproof? UV stable? Stable thru temperature cycles? let me know when

[Rebelbase]

[jz638]

I don’t know who put this airheaded bint on the materials science beat, but I really wish they hadn’t. Her awful and barely literate writing as if there was only one type of plastic until this stuff came along, and repeated high-school activist panic that all plastic is bad for the environment makes the story more about her ignorance than the technological development that she’s barely able to report on, even while parroting the dumbed down explanations the actual engineers and scientists provided to her.

[Kozak]

One dimensional discs?
What idiot wrote this?

[PIF]

Luckily they are phasing out petroleum.

[colorado tanker]

The Dems will cancel this. Anything “plastic” triggers conniption fits in them.

[HandyDandy]

I still miss bakelite.
Will this new plastic leapfrog graphene?

[yesthatjallen]

"Scientists at MIT Have Developed a New Plastic Stronger Than Steel ... Scientists have developed a lightweight plastic that will change the world"

It's rare to read such a headline. 'scientists HAVE developed' the plastic "WILL" change the world. Most articles speculate about a breakthrough product.

'Will change the world' is still speculation but the fact (at least according to this article) the product does exist. Let's see if it does 'change the world'.

[Ragnar54]

"one-dimensional discs"

Geometry alert!

[Boogieman]

Stronger than steel... and 1000x as flammable!

[sauropod]

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[bert]

Plastic is not a problem

Destroy and eliminate the left wingers and plastic remains an excellent material

the continued existence of the inferior people who make up the left is the only problem