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There is an extremely tough material made out of frozen water and sawdust called Pykrete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Py
by po 12y ago
There is an extremely tough material made out of frozen water and sawdust called Pykrete: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete
There were some plans to make ships out of it and it seems that mythbusters did an episode on it which I haven't seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2009_season)#Episode_115_.E2.80.93_Alaska_Special_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MythBusters_(2009_season)#Epis...
- yarper 12y agoIt's possibly that episode that triggered the submarine thought!
- po 12y agoAh, I didn't notice at first that information about the original Project Habakkuk is linked to higher up in the Ice article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habbakuk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habbakuk Thinking about it now, I wonder if a better form of pykrete could be made with a more modern expanding/insulating material than wood pulp…