Posted on 02/24/2017 1:35:52 PM PST by ckilmer
Foam body armor? Even armor-piercing bullets cannot get through this foam.
And the foam doesn’t just stop bullets. It destroys them…this foam decimates bullets into dust.
It also stops x-ray, gamma rays, cosmic rays--thereby protecting astronauts
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Pretty cool. Might be a lot lighter than lugging around a plate carrier.
The outer hull material for Enterprise, as soon as warp drive is perfected.
The outer hull material for Enterprise, as soon as warp drive is perfected.
That’s what the article left out; the weight. The second most important point of the product is excluded.
“Quantum foam, makes me roam.”
~Character early on in Michael Crichton’s “Timeline.”
Does it stop neutrinos? No? Meh.
It is really neat that they told the world how it is made.
I’m guessing weight won’t be such an issue where it’s intended to be used.
Loved the book.
Hated the movie.................
Decimates? That word does not mean what you think it means, Ms. Barrie.
So put a layer of it into the crew capsules as well.
As an aside, this still sounds like it might be too bulky to use as a replacement material for my tinfoil hat.
More spin off alien technology?
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/02/23/this-foam-stops-bullets-cold-and-pulverizes-them-to-dust.html
Gamma rays?
That will be useful since gamma ray exposure can cause your tonsils to grow back.
It does what to bullets into dust?
Oh..., I thought this was a thread about a new birth control option.
I doubt it stops gamma very well. It takes mass, whether an inch of lead, five inches of steel, 20 inches of concrete, 40 inches of water. Beer’s Law applies to gamma.
The Zeigler Equation applies to cosmic rays. In some cases you get MORE radiation into your target as the cosmic ray decelerates in your shield and makes more, lower energy, photons by bremsstrahlung radiation. Another curious thing about cosmic rays is that at lower energies, they can deposit more energy per length than at higher energies, so by putting in say a 200 mil aluminum shield, you can increase the impact of the cosmic ray (shielding can modulate Linear Energy Transfer, LET).
Ablative armor for the USS Defiant?
Indeed.
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