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US makes strongest-ever armor material with 100 trillion bonds/cm² (interestingengineering.com)
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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

"the manufacturing process of the 2D polymer is highly scalable"

First line of the article

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 0 points 6 days ago

It means you can increase the amount you put in to get a higher amount of output, but that doesn't mean it's actually doable in terms of cost or available resources etc

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ok but there's 'high' and then there's 'low earth orbit'.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's what my dispensary tells me too

[–] AAA@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

Scalability is not viability.