[gameprogrammer] fluid body armor

I don't have the link but I saw the story too on the Drudge report. If you 
search for "armor" I am sure it will come up. The gist was that when a 
projectile hits the liquid it immediately solidifies (within a millisecond or 
less) and stops the projectile. They have so far tried it with arrows and a few 
other things and are planning to test it with bullets. They made it sound like 
its greatest uses would be in vehicles and in the sleeves of protective 
clothing for law enforcement because it retains its flexibility unti it is 
struck. Pretty cool.
I saw the story a day or two ago I think.
 
Keith Emery
"Roger D. Vargas" <roger@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
El vie, 30-04-2004 a las 16:06, Bob Pendleton escribió:

> > > Bob Pendleton
> > 
> > Which is a good argument that it's no longer War that gives us great ideas
> > and inventions. It's now video games and that industry that give us ideas
> > for new inventions and technologies in real life...
> 
> Well, science fiction is a good source of ideas. Except for fluid body
> armor every thing I listed was in a scifi book written before 1959 and
> arguably before 1935.
Curious, what is a fluid body armor? Maybe some kind of dense fluid that
slows projectiles?



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Roger D. Vargas
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"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could
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