Liquid armor

Maladominus · Dec 4, 2005

Originally posted by Piper:
Link

Traveller-era Cloth Armor has arrived?

Ptah · Dec 4, 2005

Cool link. What's next Implast ala Larry Niven?

Fritz_Brown · Dec 5, 2005

Oh yes - very cool indeed!

So, at what TL is Cloth supposedly introduced?

Todg · Dec 5, 2005

Shear thickening fuids are one approach, another is magnetorheological fluids. More info here:

http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/Science-Fiction-News.asp?NewsNum=108

daibaka · Dec 5, 2005

Sounds more like 2300's inertial armour to me (the STF armour). The magnetorheological stuff is intriguing too.