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So what are some cool applications of this?
by mrfusion 6y ago
So what are some cool applications of this?
- el_don_almighty 6y agoFirst aid for burns. Imagine an ointment tube of this that you could immediately apply to large burns then simply add water and create a sterile coverage for moisture retention under bandages
- mrfusion 6y agoSpacecraft re-entry?
- imglorp 6y agoFirefighting gel
- brentonator 6y ago...of doom.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoSpace structures?
- mrfusion 6y agoIntriguing, explain.
- gostsamo 6y agoNot gp, but the protein structure implies the ability to fold materials and expand them really fast. It might be helpful in designing new space habitats. Alternatively, the proteins could be used to contain liquids in zero gravity. If you have a way to extract the proteins, you are left again with just water.
- gonzo41 6y agoThis probably wouldn't work. It's a biological system, so past a pretty tight temperature range the weak bonding forces of the protiens will denature, or lock up from the cold.
- JoeAltmaier 6y agoRapid deployment of large structures in zero gravity?
- ur-whale 6y agoI'm thinking Halloween prank.
- Daub 6y agoFlat pack construction?
- starpilot 6y agoCurrency?
- nxpnsv 6y agoCrypto slime hag tokens
- altcognito 6y agoI wonder if it could be used as a barrier in oil spills or other applications. Could be cheap, biodegradable and compact.
- Koala_ice 6y agoSome of my friends are implementing a blobchain using it.
- Igelau 6y agoProof of Slime. I can see the headlines now: Sunk Cost - Blobchain Miner Cracks Foundation in Massive Slime Spill
- xwkd 6y agoAs I was reading, I thought the article was about to answer this. I guess I have to add “No One is Prepared” to my mental clickbait filter now.
- chrisgd 6y agoThe way they talked about it expanding and it’s softness I thought it was a new crash absorption technology like in Demolition Man (the movie with Bullock, Stallone and Snipes) where it instantly fills the car
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoProbably industrial surface coatings, paints, epoxies, sealants, greases, etc where you need to obtain certain mechanical properties from the fluid using the least volume possible (because every bit of additive is displacing the product that does the real work).
- mrfusion 6y agoNeat ideas! Perhaps engine oil?
- vagrantJin 6y agoBearing lube?
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoOrganic stuff doesn't tend to like non-earthly levels of heat so doubtful except maybe to add clingyness to some low temperature greases.
- pvaldes 6y agosea-bag for cars?
- Igelau 6y agoI kind of want to know what happens if you eat it. It probably puts psyllium husk to shame.
- nate_meurer 6y agoNothing, that's what happens. The fish slime is almost entirely water, with only milligrams of protein in it, which you digest just as though you'd eaten a tiny bit of egg. Koreans eat quite a bit of hagfish. It's just seafood. Psyllium fiber is an indigestible carbohydrate, usually consumed in quantities thousands of times greater than the amount of protein in fish slime.
- dekhn 6y agoI've been trying to get some of my friends to make hagfish jelly.
- dennisnedry 6y agoThe US Navy has figured out a way to create the slime in a lab - https://newatlas.com/hagfish-slime-us-navy/47544/ https://newatlas.com/hagfish-slime-us-navy/47544/ They’re hoping to use it for shark repellent and ballistic defense.
- clort 6y agoI wonder if you could throw it in the water while running away from other ships or submarines; if you can gum up their propellors thats going to be pretty useful
- tyingq 6y agoRiot control maybe? A water cannon injecting this stuff into the stream would be intimidating.
- hkarthik 6y agoWeb like projectiles to grapple and swing around NYC sky scrapers?