What happens when aerogel material is hit

[ate8tree3]

Wow .. it is amazing..

but what exactly happened ?

[IBMegaG]

i dont get it..

[MercedesCars454]

i cant recognize a thing

[va3atc]

nuts.  Just one or two more seconds would have been awesome. It looked like the armour was buckling but we'll never know.. arg!

[orangejump11]

wo crazy

[BucketHippo]

Wth was that? it looked like a horse pushing a cube and the cube pooped out diamonds into a checkerd box

[MetalTala]

it wuz a yoshis island block

[Domzdream]

What's happening. What are we looking at?

[kxantonxk]

this vid sux!!!!

[IWillNotConceide18]

too short. hard to tell what is going on

[YINGAI1995]

yeah

[soylentgreenb]

Perhaps you should read the description then?

[eljaco88]

I want one.

[Weed4Hoodii]

its very expensive

[governmentproj13]

the person/people who invented aerogel must be loving life now... XD

[tdk7086]

it was invented by samuel kistler, utech loves him.

[letmeatem]

as this is used for space missions where there is no atmosphere. would it not make any difference..

just a thought

[DrightJKayorent]

@letmeatem It makes a difference in how much weight you have to lift up into space,

and how much fuel you need to use to do it.

[scooter952]

wow... that'd be cool, imagine using hydrogen! (or something more inert like helium)

[t5239857289578947594]

Yes this is a compression test on the aerogel.The stuff feels a little spungy when pressed with fingers,so I imagine it would act this way.Then turning to fine dust as it breaks down to pressure.

[ice9fetus81]

what the hell is that?a screensaver?

[andrewcareaga]

For happyidiottalk, here's the explanation (taken from the description): This slow-motion video demonstrates what happens when a piece of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) made with aerogels is hit by a high-momentum projectile (the momentum is eight times higher than that of a .45-caliber bullet).

[happyidiottalk]

Can we have an explanation of what we're seeing here.

[moppix]

thats not aerogel

[KenfromDublin]

Absolutely astonis

[PinkMimosa]

That was really cool, it just sort of bled out.

[budakmengarut]

wtf??

[Shrubbs]

I think the aerogel material was inside that cube, and once it was squished, little white shards like grains of sand poured out of it

[Fwao]

wtf

[iconoclasty]

useless

[drcavacho]

things take time to develop into an actual place in peoples life

[amhdb]

What use is a new born babe.

[liveify]

wth there is nothing there

[elurocks13579]

i cant see anything