sciencentral.com — A new "liquid armor" could be the solution for protecting the parts of the body that aren't currently covered by standard-issue ballistic vests – arms and legs, where many of these devastating and life-threatening injuries occur.
Jun 15, 2006 View in Crawl 4
mrassmanJun 15, 2006
..and they would become stiff and rigid upon impact....
alkyJun 15, 2006
There are lots of 'evil' applications for this, too.Sneak it into someone's wetsuit and it locks after a certain depth, for example.
anvilonJun 15, 2006
Louis Woo's "impact armor" from Niven's Ringworld series. <a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringworld</a>
zippoJun 15, 2006
I'll take three.
stephenchowJun 15, 2006
"As a motorcyclist, I'd pay good money for this. Coming off a bike would still suck, but it would suck a lot less."Tell that to Rothlisberger
odyss3yJun 15, 2006
semi off topic? a video worth watching:<a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=CH6-2UizHfI&search=science">http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=CH6-2UizHfI&search=science</a>
cyborg771Jun 25, 2006
He would die, or bounce off.
cyborg771Jun 25, 2006
Hey, maybe this is how Jesus walked on water, he just replaced it with this stuf.
justice101Sep 2, 2006
The bank robbers in the north hollywood shootout where very high, so the could shrug off the pain of the impact. Same thing happens today in Iraq, terrorists get scared take a bunch of drugs and can take multiple hits with NO body armor and still keep standing. Which is one reason why soldiers keep complaining for a larger bullet, its not that it doesn't work they just can't feel it.