Shear Thickening Fluid Armor Technology
SR's future-tech crystal ball has sometimes been a little blurry, but when it's right, it's usually so right, it's scary. Fields of Fire predicted this stuff, what, about 6-8 years ago?
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We had a thread on this a few months back, IIRC.
The consensus was that you would not want this stuff inside your body.
~J
The consensus was that you would not want this stuff inside your body.
~J
That's what I get for not following the fourms regularlly, and in an even more silly move, posting before running a search on the topic. I should know better, really.
That doesn't make it any less cool. IMHO it's GelPack!
| QUOTE (Kagetenshi) |
| We had a thread on this a few months back, IIRC. The consensus was that you would not want this stuff inside your body. |
The same could be said of most armor materials. After all, if the armor gets in your body, it didn't do its job.
What property of the armor made it look unappealing to have blown into your body? Polyethylene glycol is (according to the article) non-toxic.
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| SR's future-tech crystal ball has sometimes been a little blurry, but when it's right, it's usually so right, it's scary. Fields of Fire predicted this stuff, what, about 6-8 years ago? |
Kinda-sorta. With their fluff interpreted literally, Gel packs function a bit differently: pure gel that solidifies under shock, and may stay solidified. This stuff is soaked into normal ballistic fibers. Interpretted more broadly...well, armors that harden in response to impact are an old staple of science fiction, predating Fields of Fire.
| QUOTE (Cray74) |
| The same could be said of most armor materials. After all, if the armor gets in your body, it didn't do its job. What property of the armor made it look unappealing to have blown into your body? Polyethylene glycol is (according to the article) non-toxic |
In the referenced discussion, one of the things that came up was possibly using it as an alternative to dermal sheathing/plating. That, rather than being blown into the body, was the part agreed to be bad
~J
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