Wait... that means that if an asteroid was about to hit Earth then the you could make a huge sheet of Flubber, roll it out over the place it would hit the ground, and watch as the asteroid bounces harmlessly off into space! (Okay, the heat of the asteroid might melt the Flubber but otherwise the theory is sound).
And the Death Star Turbolaser? Okay, a Turbolaser operates on something else so there is heat involved as well so that wouldn't work...
Wait, Cyclopes eye beam? I remember reading somewhere that Cyclops's super eye beam power shoots pure kinetic energy instead of heat so that his beam doesn't burn people, it just hurls them back with great force. If Flubber reflects kinetic energy then that means that it would reflect Cyclopses kinetic eye beams right back at him with greater force... or course he has that ruby quartz stuff that absorbs his kinetic beams... but it doesn't reflect it.
I wonder what would happen if someone incinerated Wolverine so that all his flesh was burned off, then cooled off the adamantine skeleton, then covered the skeleton with Flubber? ...or electroplated them...
Practical applications for flubber
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Re: Practical applications for flubber
Fry: No! They did it! They blew it up! And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen? And then the birds took over and ruined their society. And then the cows. And then... I don't know, is that a slug, maybe? Noooo!
Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry
Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry
Re: Practical applications for flubber
Possible, probably less physics-defying way for flubber to work, which makes some sense if thin films of it wear off - somehow it converts the mass of the flubber into kinetic energy.
Okay, yeah, that's unrealistic, and it doesn't explain babies not being smashed to a pulp, but it avoids violating conservation of energy. Although it still has to be very efficient, or your shoes would ignite after a while or bouncing.
Okay, yeah, that's unrealistic, and it doesn't explain babies not being smashed to a pulp, but it avoids violating conservation of energy. Although it still has to be very efficient, or your shoes would ignite after a while or bouncing.
Re: Practical applications for flubber
Well, if you're converting mass straight into energy with it, that's going to be the greatest fucking engine of all time. Imagine a piston engine that drove itself after the first stroke with only a very thin application of the stuff. It would be like carrying around stable antimatter in efficiency terms.
But yes, it does avoid CoE violations, which is nice.
But yes, it does avoid CoE violations, which is nice.
A scientist once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the tortoise standing on?'
'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'
Re: Practical applications for flubber
Hmm... if Flubber could be used to create protective armor against kinetic weapons... how much would it inconvenience the wearer?
A person wearing a Flubber-coated helmet would presumably be pretty resistant to hits to the head (unless Flubber can be bypassed by high temperature rounds, sharp points, or some other specialized weaponry). Putting a Flubber coating on their body armor could provide protection, but they would have to worry about bumping against things and bouncing.
The soles of their shoes would have to be non-Flubberised (unless they needed to jump high... maybe have some 'slippers' that fit over their regular boots in special situations). And their body armor would have patches of Flubber enforced armor to protect vital organs while minimizing the chance that they would accidentally bump into them.
I wonder what the best course of action would be for a soldier in Flubber armor trying to protect his fellows from a grenade? Suppose one guy in Flubber armor was with a team of soldiers in regular armor along with some non-combatants and an enemy tosses a grenade into their midst. If his helmet has Flubber coating on the outside then presumably he could could put his helmet over the grenade and then lay on top of it... the helmet would contain the blast and the flubber coating would contain it further... or amplify it? His body armor would likely protect him as long as the force of the blast goes into his armored portions... but then the Flubber could amplify the force and send him flying around.
Maybe put a regular helmet over the grenade and have the guy in Flubber armor hold it down. The blast and shrapnel would hopefully be contained by the helmet and the guy in the armor would be protected even if it does launch him into the air a bit (getting bounced around after an explosion without a helmet to protect your head would be a bad idea).
A person wearing a Flubber-coated helmet would presumably be pretty resistant to hits to the head (unless Flubber can be bypassed by high temperature rounds, sharp points, or some other specialized weaponry). Putting a Flubber coating on their body armor could provide protection, but they would have to worry about bumping against things and bouncing.
The soles of their shoes would have to be non-Flubberised (unless they needed to jump high... maybe have some 'slippers' that fit over their regular boots in special situations). And their body armor would have patches of Flubber enforced armor to protect vital organs while minimizing the chance that they would accidentally bump into them.
I wonder what the best course of action would be for a soldier in Flubber armor trying to protect his fellows from a grenade? Suppose one guy in Flubber armor was with a team of soldiers in regular armor along with some non-combatants and an enemy tosses a grenade into their midst. If his helmet has Flubber coating on the outside then presumably he could could put his helmet over the grenade and then lay on top of it... the helmet would contain the blast and the flubber coating would contain it further... or amplify it? His body armor would likely protect him as long as the force of the blast goes into his armored portions... but then the Flubber could amplify the force and send him flying around.
Maybe put a regular helmet over the grenade and have the guy in Flubber armor hold it down. The blast and shrapnel would hopefully be contained by the helmet and the guy in the armor would be protected even if it does launch him into the air a bit (getting bounced around after an explosion without a helmet to protect your head would be a bad idea).
Fry: No! They did it! They blew it up! And then the apes blew up their society too. How could this happen? And then the birds took over and ruined their society. And then the cows. And then... I don't know, is that a slug, maybe? Noooo!
Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry
Futurama: The Late Philip J. Fry