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The internet gave a voice to the world thus gave definitive proof that the world is mostly full of idiots.
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Look's like earwax. Must be Superman's.
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I hope your earwax doesn't look like that.

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That whole class of materials is wacky. There was a video up a while back of a pool filled with similar stuff, and a couple of guys ran around on it. When they stopped running they started to sink fairly quickly.
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That'd be the one. Thanks vitm.
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Custard does the same thing - in pools, that is. You can walk/run on it at a decent pace, but if you stop, you will sink and at that point you're pretty much stuck.

I doubt custard is bulletproof though.

I look forward to seeing an army of sludge monsters, people just covered in this gel.
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heh, precursors to Dune tech... Can't fire bullets at it, those get stopped. But you can slip a knife right through it if you don't use too much force.
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http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008 ... py-bl.html

Gene therapy cures a form of blindness.

I have a lot of hope for this field of science. One day I hope this field of science enables my grandchildren to still develop 8-packs while eating nothing but pure lard.
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Water is surprisingly bulletproof. So I'm sure the custard does better.

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Try getting 100k pounds from the Ministry of Defense by telling they should fill helmets with water...
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My impression is it is slightly more sophisticated than water and corn starch or they wouldn't be getting it put in so many products by well known companies
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Lago PARANOIA wrote:http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008 ... py-bl.html

Gene therapy cures a form of blindness.

I have a lot of hope for this field of science. One day I hope this field of science enables my grandchildren to still develop 8-packs while eating nothing but pure lard.
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Yes, if you put soldiers in a tub of water it'd protect them (and flex!) better than a tub of cotton.

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Obviously they are just going to put the gel in the lining of their new vests and helmets and whatnot.

I know you were just snarking Crissa, but still.
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Pykrete! If WW2 had lasted more they would have built aircraft carriers out of this shit.
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http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl ... 13/1813208

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I remember hearing about something saying human hair was actually very good at adsorbing oil (something about the surface texture). Which meant that with enough hair, you could theoretically clean up an oil spill much more quickly than the conventional method.
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Josh Kablack wrote:Your freedom to make rulings up on the fly is in direct conflict with my freedom to interact with an internally consistent narrative. Your freedom to run/play a game without needing to understand a complex rule system is in direct conflict with my freedom to play a character whose abilities and flaws function as I intended within that ruleset. Your freedom to add and change rules in the middle of the game is in direct conflict with my ability to understand that rules system before I decided whether or not to join your game.

In short, your entire post is dismissive of not merely my intelligence, but my agency. And I don't mean agency as a player within one of your games, I mean my agency as a person. You do not want me to be informed when I make the fundamental decisions of deciding whether to join your game or buying your rules system.
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Somebody told me this supercomputer is cool shit, but I don't know enough about computers to comment much.
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Thats a good looking car, still not really cheap though.
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It depends on what you're doing. That thing is really not that much above a bigass pile of Dells in total performance, but it's way cheaper. By comparison, Folding At Home's real-world FLOPS totals about a thousand times that things claimed performance, and the biggest supercomputers claim over a hundred times it's performance. The big advantage it has is that it's one box built on standard hardware, not a massive cluster or a room. The only thing about it that is really unique is the motherboard. Everything else is duplicable for way less money. Also, their performance comparisons are probably unfair unless the other computers are also using GPU cycles for calculations.

On the other hand, it is probably the most powerful desktop in the world.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009 ... 533653.htm

I just like CSIRO beating up the big boys! CISRO is a great organisation.
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Actually, think about it this way: If CISRO wins, we lose. The only reasons those IEEE specs work is because the cost of implementing them was so cheap.

If it weren't cheap, it'd look like cel-phone technology; totally incompatible patents piled high meaning that while they can work together, they don't, because to do so would be to lose money.

It's not a case I support.

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