Elite roleplay: Q&A and OOC
12 Oct 2020, 8:35pm
Example of how a dilatant liquid behaves
You'd want something that's less viscosity liquid than that, but with higher shear strength to absorb the impact into a larger area around it. It would probably be a big material science challenge to have both strong long molecules in the liquid, yet low viscosity up to high strain rates where it go solid.
13 Oct 2020, 11:23pm
14 Oct 2020, 12:20pm
That doesn't make the behaviour less useful (and I don't trust the properties of your custard body armour...).
Apparently there's already a dilatant which can be used as liquid body armour: silica nanoparticles in a solution of polyethylene glycol.
Last edit: 14 Oct 2020, 12:36pm
14 Oct 2020, 1:51pm
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A million clowns would disagree with you.
14 Oct 2020, 2:00pm
14 Oct 2020, 3:22pm
A C Ender
See this video
I think, considering what's included in your link, & that being current RL technology, surely in E:D timeline, some kind of similar flexible dynamic personal armor would be plausible.
14 Oct 2020, 6:52pm
16 Oct 2020, 10:16am
16 Oct 2020, 10:40am
Synthya WylderWell, it appears as if the Station Administrator's 'special order' item has finally arrived.
Huh? What? Where?
16 Oct 2020, 12:40pm
16 Oct 2020, 12:45pm