{"id":587,"date":"2006-06-15T14:19:03","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=587"},"modified":"2006-06-15T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T14:19:03","slug":"scifi_armor_becoming_real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2006\/06\/15\/scifi_armor_becoming_real\/","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Fi Armor Becoming Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;We&#8217;re living in the Future!&#8221; department comes <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mdtzf\">news<\/a> of a wild new &#8220;liquid armor&#8221; that could supplement or even replace the conventional Kevlar vests used by soldiers, law-enforcement officers, and anti-government wackos. At the very least, it could protect the unarmored limbs that kids are currently losing in Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;We can make thin layers of material for use on the arms and legs that remain flexible under normal motion, but become rigid and absorb energy when impacted by a ballistic threat or a knife,&#8221; [researcher Norman] Wagner says.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cool, cool stuff. Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scalzi.com\/whatever\/004287.html\">science-fiction writers<\/a> came up with this idea a long time ago, so this is really only a case of life imitating art&#8230; which brings me back to my usual question: where <i>is<\/i> my Skywalker-style speeder bike, anyhow?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;We&#8217;re living in the Future!&#8221; department comes news of a wild new &#8220;liquid armor&#8221; that could supplement or even replace the conventional Kevlar vests used by soldiers, law-enforcement officers, and anti-government wackos. At the very least, it could protect the unarmored limbs that kids are currently losing in Iraq: &#8220;We can make thin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}