Why don't they just use diamond, the hardest metal?
this post was submitted on 20 Jan 2025
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I'll be eager to know what the results will be about it's resistance to bullets and sharpened objects.
Currently, garbage. They used it to reinforce a polymer to go from a strength of 50 MPa to 70 MPa. Kevlar is 10x stronger, commercially scaled, and cheap
Surely I can't be the only one who thought this were interleaved DNA chains
Anecdotal evidence would seem to suggest that DNA is not a particularly effective armor.
100 trillion barry bonds
At least it’s not 100 trillion James Bonds.
Not if Hank Scorpio has anything to say about it.
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