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Ysobelle
08-22-2007, 03:30 AM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2284349.ece

Let me know if y'all can't open this. You have to see this stuff.
Torra
08-22-2007, 06:52 AM
Wow! The applications of this alone are astounding. My question is on how much it costs to produce. That's what will really sell me - when it becomes possible for Average Joe to insulate his home using it, for example. I love the idea of it being used to filter water though; it seems a more thorough method as well as being easier once the stuff is made.
Artemisia
08-22-2007, 09:34 AM
Dear Lordy, I'm catching my breath here.

It would make everything warmer and lighter. There seems to be a million uses for it. Put it in my high altitude hiking gear, please.

The military will use it first, then it will be available to the general public. Everyone, keep your eyes out when the product is made and sold in the private sector. IPO, IPO, IPO!

Emailing this to my daughter. She wants to be on the NASA crew that sends the first person to Mars.
Isabelle Warwicke
08-22-2007, 10:24 AM
It doesn't state the cost in the article. I wonder if it will be terrible expensive when it reaches us, the comsumers.

I love the idea of it. It looks eerie though.
Bonnie Strangeways
08-22-2007, 10:44 AM
Love the product, and can't wait to see what future applications they find for it....but did anyone read the comments at the bottom of the article?


Feckin'. hysterical.
lavender r dragon
08-22-2007, 12:32 PM
did anyone else find it odd that they kept typing it as "Nasa" instead of "NASA" - the first time i saw "Nasa" it took me a second to figure out what they were talking about (i thought it was a person or something)
Pansy Faye
08-22-2007, 12:52 PM
So if it can stop a bomb blast - can we get it to our guys in Irag? Maybe make some protective armour for them? build a shield around the bases?

Hello?? Tennis rackets are the LEAST of our priority right now???!!!! Even as cool as a trip to Mars may be - We have men and women dying in the Middle East - can do some GOOD with it instead of looking at how much we can make from it??


tennis rackets! cheeseschristmas
surlywench
08-22-2007, 01:42 PM
they've gotta get these guys together with the dude that cooked up the 'super-hero' fabric...

could you imagine the possibilities of *that*?
WenchLadyKate
08-22-2007, 01:56 PM
Love the product, and can't wait to see what future applications they find for it....but did anyone read the comments at the bottom of the article?


Feckin'. hysterical.

Smoke Pants indeed... *rotfl*
Cool stuff though, my brain is working overtime with all the cool stuff one could do with this. Smoke Pants being only one of those things...
Winifred Baskerville
08-22-2007, 02:00 PM
...smoke pants? *iz totally confused*
Ysobelle
08-22-2007, 02:13 PM
Down, Pansy. One of the problems with the stuff is how well it insulates. If they sent it to guys in Iraq or Afghanistan, they'd probably die from hyperthermia.

Also, I'm very, very sure the military is working on something-- like seeing how well it does against bomb blasts. Just because the private sector got it to market first doesn't mean the DoD won't get there, too.
WenchLadyKate
08-22-2007, 02:20 PM
...smoke pants? *iz totally confused*

The comments fromt he article. Some of them are quite bizzare, and the one about smoke pants made me chuckle... lol
Lady Sarah
08-22-2007, 02:31 PM
Dawn, Pansy. One of the problems with the stuff is how well it insulates. If they sent it to guys in Iraq or Afghanistan, they'd probably die from hyperthermia.

Also, I'm very, very sure the military is working on something-- like seeing how well it does against bomb blasts. Just because the private sector got it to market first doesn't mean the DoD won't get there, too.


Catch them at the end of the fiscal year when they start buying up everything in sight just to spend the remaining budget and they'll purchase that stuff in a heartbeat.

I'm sure that the military is working with it primarily for their explosives R&D and protection therein. Oddly enough, I can see mobile bomb detonation shelters being made out of that, if it's as tough as the article says it is.
surlywench
08-22-2007, 11:50 PM
...smoke pants? *iz totally confused*

the comments at the bottom of the article. click the teeeensy link at the bottom to 'read more'.
don't be drinking _anything_ :)
Isabelle Warwicke
08-23-2007, 11:49 AM
Oddly enough, I can see mobile bomb detonation shelters being made out of that, if it's as tough as the article says it is.

The article did say that Aerogel is virtually weightless. Mobile shelters are a GREAT idea. I'm certain that the thinktanks inthe DoD have already started grinding their gears over the best way to use the product.

But can you imagine wearing a winter coat that didn't add 20 pounds to your frame? I can't wait.