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What good is a highly flexible bullet-proof material if it stops the bullet somewhere inside or on the other side of your body?
by TNO 17y ago
What good is a highly flexible bullet-proof material if it stops the bullet somewhere inside or on the other side of your body?
- Kev 17y agoIt would at least make extracting the bullet easier by keeping the fragments contained in fabric. Dragging the fabric along with it would probably slow the bullet down a lot faster too - meaning shallower penetration. Reminded me of the theory that Mongolian soldiers wore silk shirts because it made extracting barbed arrows easier. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_armour http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_armour
- jeromec 17y agoWatch the first video starting at about 1:10. From my understanding the material could have two properties -- being both soft and pliable, but also becoming hard as a board instantly upon impact as from a bullet.
- bh23ha 17y agoSo it's like a Newtonian fluid? Didn't the mythbusters shoot a corn starch solution to find out if it can stop bullets? It could not, but maybe this thing can?
- jeromec 17y agoI think what they are saying is that it can go from having properties of Newtonian fluid (like water) to something as stiff as a board under magnetic influence.