http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=288928

just saw this, pretty cool some of the uses for are pretty cool.

Yeah this stuff has been around for ages :)

More surprising, we're going to Mars in 11 years? Did I miss that announcement?

More surprising, we're going to Mars in 11 years? Did I miss that announcement?

It's actually the Moon in 11 years, not Mars .. so you'll see this mistake propagate to all the news articles on this Aerogel topic since they all just copy and paste from each other without verifying facts, much less actually knowing anything at all about the space program.

last edited by parabol at 22:00:32 22/Aug/07

It's actually the Moon in 11 years, not Mars .. so you'll see this mistake propagate to all the news articles on this Aerogel topic since they all just copy and paste from each other without verifying facts, much less actually knowing anything at all about the space program.

sht the... i forgot.

thats cool, i want some.

i wish he squeezed it.

if you squeeze it even slightly it will... ahhh explodde into thousands.... of... well like into .. liek sand.

(quoted just roughly cause cbf listening to it again.)



but

well SQUEEZE IT MARTHA F.A.ARkar

Wow, cool stuff.

and can withstand a direct dynamite blast.

...but if you squeeze it it turns into sand?

Cool stuff though.

It's actually the Moon in 11 years, not Mars .. so you'll see this mistake propagate to all the news articles on this Aerogel topic since they all just copy and paste from each other without verifying facts, much less actually knowing anything at all about the space program.

did you not read the article, or are you one of those lunar landings were faked fruits :)

...but if you squeeze it it turns into sand?

yer i thought wtf. either he has it wrong or the article does.

did you not read the article, or are you one of those lunar landings were faked fruits :)

What in the world are you talking about?

haha.. "it is very tough..it can hold 2000x it's own weight!"

... it has the weight of a feather. With luck, it can hold a 10c piece!