Researchers Develop Self-Healing Plastic 71
schliz writes "Arizona State researchers have been working on a 'self-healing' polymer that uses a fibre optic 'nervous system' to detect and fix cracks. The system recovers up to 96 percent of an object's original strength in laboratory tests. It could find use in 'large-scale composite structures for which human intervention would be difficult,' such as wind turbines, satellites, aircraft, or the Mars Rover."
I for one (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I for one (Score:2, Funny)
I for one reject and spit on our ancient meme spouting underlords
Re:All we need now (Score:3, Funny)
Self healing perhaps but I would not bet anything on the replicating part.
Re:What about cars? (Score:5, Funny)
One of my father's favorite stories is about a time he brought his car to a body shop to get a dent fixed. It was a dent in the trunk, roughly the size of a basketball. The guy wanted $450 to fix it (this was many years ago, so inflate to whatever sounds appropriate). He declined. When he got back home and took another look at it, he got pissed off about the whole thing and slammed his fist into the trunk... which caused most of the dent to pop back into place. What was left was closer to the size of a tennis ball. He went back to the same guy a week later and they quoted him $50 for it. He's always referred to it as his $400 punch.
Blister Packs! (Score:4, Funny)
This could take packaging to the next level!
Now, opening that new set of headphones will require the sacrifice of your whole hand, not just a couple of fingers.