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I'd just like to say this to all the super-smart skeptics on hackernews who think they are experts on just about everything including the UFO/ET topic, you're w

• trentlott 7y ago
  Fun how there isn't in any information that would be relevant to actual materials scientists No properties, no pictures, no masses collected for these amazing 'found' materials, nada Peter Thiel can spend his money on whatever he wants, I guess. I'm not concerned Polymers and inorganic complexes can do a lot of really interesting things that are counter-intuitive (ie becoming insoluble on heating, robust mechanical behavior), but they're expensive and require mildly annoying synthesis in some cases If we have to harvest magic dust from a meteor or perform some complex synthesis to get it to work, it won't be any more widespread than specialty PNIPAM copolymers