STOPPING POWER
A nanosized glass bead traveling 1.5 kilometers
per second is halted by a polyurethanelike material, seen here in
cross-section. Red indicates locations where the material has been most
compressed on impact.
Thomas lab/Rice Univ.
3 comments:
I think its amazing that scientists made a type of plastic (metal) to stop bullets etc... I think its amazing because it can help many people from not dying and it can help the army too.
I think that this is amazing, but we should not use it until it is discovered why this happens. How do they know that it only protects against certain bullets. But when we finally do figure out how this works, it could help so much. I believe that that the experiment may be flawed because they are using a smaller system. This is a great invention that is really cool, and I hope that one day it can help.
I think that this is fantastic, but like Nicholas said, we shouldn't use it until the scientists figure out how it works. Not only would that help the scientists modify it so that it becomes even better, but if we actually use it, it might hurt someone unintentionally and the inventors won't be able to fix that problem until they know how to use it correctly. With these modifications, this invention/discovery can be very useful in the future.
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