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Activity for Mr. Mistoffelees‭

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Edit Post #281879 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question Composite armor based on diamonds, could it work?
Under normal circumstances, monolithic diamond is pretty terrible at resisting impact, due to it being weak in certain planes, also known as cleavage planes. To solve this, why don't we just make the diamonds smaller? They'd be much harder to hit on the cleavage plane that way, right? What I ha...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #280633 Please make them all gone, I don't want Mephistopheles here, that persona is for WB:SE. Here, I'm Mr. Mistoffelees, The Conjuring Cat.
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Edit Post #281726 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question How would utility fluids move and stay together?
The concept of utility fogs is actually pretty old. The idea is a swarm of fairly small micromachines (about 100 micrometers in length) that would be able to mimic most materials and objects. Each foglet (an individual micromachine of the swarm) has numerous arms that it can use to connect to othe...
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #281707 That's actually an interesting idea. I guess dried gun jam would be hard to clean.
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Edit Post #281706 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question How to protect intelligent fluids from heat damage?
So, Second Earth had/has a firearm problem. Since my magic is really just advanced science, I can't create firearm-disabling fields, so instead, I created a spell that should be able to ruin firearms. The "Gun Jam" is a strawberry-flavoured intelligent fluid, that can move on its own and harden in...
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almost 3 years ago