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Bomb proof wallpaper!!!!

http://www.popsci.com/bown/2009/product ... ion-system

We've been using stuff similar to that (carbon kevlar hybrid sheets) to reinforce buildings for years now. Of course our materials were heavier and are typically adhered to concrete walls and columns, then covered by a 1" concrete layer to mask them. In fact most federal buildings built before 1993 (the bombing of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma) have been reinforced with the stuff. Videos of that shit working are amazing, they would build a wall, reinforce it, then detonate a tnt device within five feet of it, and in slom-mo you can see the entire wall surface deflect almost a foot and return to normal. Of course the wall is mostly pulverized but the sheets keep it from collapsing.

Bigshankhank wrote: Of course the wall is mostly pulverized but the sheets keep it from collapsing.

Yeah, but if that's a load-bearing wall, I doubt that stuff would hold it up, would it?

Oh yes it does. This material, in a bomb-protection application, is intended to delay the collapse of the building structure, not entirely prevent it. And lets face it, if you were in a building that just got boombed, you'd boogie your ass out of there lickety split, and that reinforcing will give you and your neighbors time to do so.

Bigshankhank wrote:Oh yes it does. This material, in a bomb-protection application, is intended to delay the collapse of the building structure, not entirely prevent it. And lets face it, if you were in a building that just got boombed, you'd boogie your ass out of there lickety split, and that reinforcing will give you and your neighbors time to do so.

Neato!

WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

smashinator wrote:WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

No. Nor should we ever.

Ames wrote: No. Nor should we ever.

OK. I was worried for a minute.

I looked this X-Flex up on Youtube. Terrible sales video I won't repost due to 8 minutes of sheer boring followed by 5 seconds of somewhat less boring.

But apart from the bad video, that's pretty neat.

Ames wrote:

smashinator wrote:WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

No. Nor should we ever.

Correct, my statement was rhetorical. (Though I'm not sure if my use of the word rhetorical actually fits here, which leads me to threadjack my own thread: DOES the word rhetorical fit my attempted usage? Zero? Anyone?)

WeAintFoundShit wrote:

Ames wrote:

smashinator wrote:WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

No. Nor should we ever.

Correct, my statement was rhetorical. (Though I'm not sure if my use of the word rhetorical actually fits here, which leads me to threadjack my own thread: DOES the word rhetorical fit my attempted usage? Zero? Anyone?)

I'd have gone with hypothetical (e.g., we need this for our hypothetical clubhouse). Although rhetorical works if you were in fact wishing for no response!

Bigshankhank wrote:Oh yes it does. This material, in a bomb-protection application, is intended to delay the collapse of the building structure, not entirely prevent it. And lets face it, if you were in a building that just got boombed, you'd boogie your ass out of there lickety split, and that reinforcing will give you and your neighbors time to do so.

or, if history repeats, the building managers will tell you everything is okay, and to go back up to your office.

this stuff looks exceptional though, and it is already added to the list of materials needed for my bunker/hobbit hole.

BackDoorBarbie wrote:

Ames wrote:

smashinator wrote:WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

No. Nor should we ever.

what do you mean, i thought you said you remodel was for that... wtf?

Shut...up...the wife doesn't know yet!

Ames wrote:

smashinator wrote:WAIT A MINUTE!








We have a clubhouse?

No. Nor should we ever.

Well, yes and "no." Ames just wasn't supposed to know about it.

That's the kind of job I'd love to have, btw--bashing shit apart for science.

I wonder if it;s dumbproof too.

WeAintFoundShit wrote:Correct, my statement was rhetorical. (Though I'm not sure if my use of the word rhetorical actually fits here, which leads me to threadjack my own thread: DOES the word rhetorical fit my attempted usage? Zero? Anyone?)

Say it like you mean it, Bubba

Ames wrote:No. Nor should we ever.

Boo to that, it's still a kind of clubhouse even though it's called a cultist compound right?

/RM