Technology

Now this is a technology post!

So this is what John Wick had in his suit

I don't know if this will actually pan out the way that they imply in the title; armor needs to have a lot of different characteristics in order to be practical. As in, resistance to heat and cold, resistance to acids, alkalines, petroleum distillates, salts, UV, and oxygen, and also resist deformation. Multiple materials have displays significant promise for armor, but had a very short lifespan in real-word conditions. For instance, there was a material trademarked as Zylon that was supposed to be better than Kevlar, and it was used extensively by Second Chance (a body armor company); several cops were killed when their armor failed, and the armor failed because of exposure to sweat and ambient heat.

Yeah, this is a super cool development, but remember that everything that comes out at this stage is hype.

Could this be used to make a space elevator?

....and uses it to oppress and/or disenfranchise poor people

I can't wait to find out how toxic this is.

Of course it's plastic.

molecular chainmail

Goes on to form company called General Products, builds spacecraft hulls. 😉

I'm sure this is real, but I see a headline like that and I think of schoolyard talk. Like, nuh uh, my armour has 100 trillion bonds, you can't shoot me.

Anyone know the cost per kilogram?

Edit: Apparently $20,000/kg

Paper link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ads4968

I skimmed the article, scrolled down but people hasn't mentioned its mechanically Chain mail in atomic scale yet? Did I read it wrong?

hello I would like to order a thousand full plate mails

i could make stronger