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[King DZA]

Well I know what I'm bringing with me if I'm ever locked in a deadly space battle with aliens.

[Loud Whispers]

Well I know what I'm bringing with me if I'm ever locked in a deadly space battle with aliens.

Peanuts.

[King DZA]

Hell yes.

[Lagslayer]

Interesting, if this is indeed true. However, I have some skepticism about it's actual strength.

It's as strong as metal, they say, but what kind of metal? Is there some sort of comparison? Is it comparable to high quality steel? Copper? Sodium? They also tried to claim that spiderwebs were stronger than steel, but that's hardly the whole truth, and very misleading.

[Itnetlolor]

Does this mean we can have full-scale bumper cars? Hell yes.

[GreatWyrmGold]

And how long until the US army weaponizes that? Strap some missiles onto it, stat.

Probably the army developed it and weaponized it 2 years ago.

And I bet it still took them longer to weaponize it than DF players would take.

Hey, I'm a DF player...I wonder if DARPA is hiring...

Well I know what I'm bringing with me if I'm ever locked in a deadly space battle with aliens.

Peanuts.

Hell yes.

Are you kidding? If I'm going to attack somethiung with my nuts, I'd us...wait, that doesn't sound right...
Look, brazil nuts or, ideally, coconuts would be much better. Ideally ideally, steel spikes.

Interesting, if this is indeed true. However, I have some skepticism about it's actual strength.

It's as strong as metal, they say, but what kind of metal? Is there some sort of comparison? Is it comparable to high quality steel? Copper? Sodium? They also tried to claim that spiderwebs were stronger than steel, but that's hardly the whole truth, and very misleading.

Spider silk can hold more than steel of the same cross-section. That's how I understand it.

[612DwarfAvenue]

And how long until the US army weaponizes that? Strap some missiles onto it, stat.

Probably the army developed it and weaponized it 2 years ago.

I always think this. Whenever some new technology or scientific advance is made, I can't help but wonder what the military has been doing with it before it was publicly announced. Maybe that's just the natural cynical bastard in me. Or is it true? CONSPIRACIES! YOU'RE ALL OUT TO GET ME.

CRAP! HE FOUND OUT!

That's pretty much true, actually. By the time it gets publicly announced, they've already put it through the paces are are probably field testing it.

[Wayward Device]

If something's hitting your spaceship, you're probably already screwed. A peanut in Earth's orbit can hit a space station with the equivalent force of a 50. Bullet 

Interestingly, because throughout the history of manned space exploration waste management (human waste that is) has largely consisted of dumping it overboard (or however we are supposed to refer to it on a spaceship), the most common thing you're likely to be hit by in low Earth orbit is shit travel in excess of 30,000 miles an hour. Frozen solid into something much like extremely unhygienic steel. This actually causes damage in the millions each year to satellites.

[Draco18s]

Interestingly, because throughout the history of manned space exploration waste management (human waste that is) has largely consisted of dumping it overboard (or however we are supposed to refer to it on a spaceship), the most common thing you're likely to be hit by in low Earth orbit is shit travel in excess of 30,000 miles an hour. Frozen solid into something much like extremely unhygienic steel. This actually causes damage in the millions each year to satellites.

Would cause, actually.  NASA tracks some 22,000 objects 10cm and larger as to avoid collisions with Stuff We Can Move Still (i.e. operational satellites) that would produce even more debris.

[Loud Whispers]

If something's hitting your spaceship, you're probably already screwed. A peanut in Earth's orbit can hit a space station with the equivalent force of a 50. Bullet 

Interestingly, because throughout the history of manned space exploration waste management (human waste that is) has largely consisted of dumping it overboard (or however we are supposed to refer to it on a spaceship), the most common thing you're likely to be hit by in low Earth orbit is shit travel in excess of 30,000 miles an hour. Frozen solid into something much like extremely unhygienic steel. This actually causes damage in the millions each year to satellites.

Yeah, the international space station has had quite a few close calls, and has nearly had to evacuate many times. Commercial satellites on the other hand.... Beooooooooooowww *Boom*

Interesting, if this is indeed true. However, I have some skepticism about it's actual strength.

It's as strong as metal, they say, but what kind of metal? Is there some sort of comparison? Is it comparable to high quality steel? Copper? Sodium? They also tried to claim that spiderwebs were stronger than steel, but that's hardly the whole truth, and very misleading.

I think a comparison with pottasium (soft metal), copper (the compromise) and iron (hard metal) would be nicer. Just 'cus metals like steel are peculiar alloys, and that makes things rather confuzzling when people start pouting atom ratios.
Also, they didn't claim spiderwebs are stronger than steel, they said spidersilk was. And they're right. Gram for gram, spider silk is stronger than steel (except maybe a carbon heavy steel alloy, I don't know then).
Me being helpful :3

1 kilograms of rocks = 1 kilograms of feathers

[Cruxador]

Clearly we need space janitors.

[Wayward Device]

1 kilograms of rocks = 1 kilograms of feathers

Hehehe, people always forget that. There was a thread a while back on RL metal strength and there was a great picture of a steel sword and a titanium one of the same strength side by side. Needless to say, the titanium one was almost ludicrously bigger. 

[Loud Whispers]

1 kilograms of rocks = 1 kilograms of feathers

Hehehe, people always forget that. There was a thread a while back on RL metal strength and there was a great picture of a steel sword and a titanium one of the same strength side by side. Needless to say, the titanium one was almost ludicrously bigger.

Wow, I just found THIS.

It seems like now we also have cotton candy thread, as well as wafers

"sustainable spider silk for commercial use worldwide."

Have I heard that right?

[Dsarker]

1 kilograms of rocks = 1 kilograms of feathers

Same mass, not same weight.

[Kogut]

1 kilograms of rocks = 1 kilograms of feathers

Same mass, not same weight.

What?
EDIT: "Weight is the product of the mass m of the object and the magnitude of the local gravitational acceleration" - from wikipedia