Comments on: Sticky Foam Gets Serious

By: mike

mike — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:54:27 +0000

i read about micro-organisims that glow when they come into contact with explosive ingerdients.
They are developing it so you can spread it on a mine field to locate the mines.

By: intentsly

intentsly — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:37:37 +0000

If its sticky and expands I guess that would work, just so long as it isn’t too easy to remove. If it’s flammable that would make for quite an > (napalm anyone?).
Lets just hope these devices remain in the hands of the forces of good and not twisted some how by the bad ones.
I didn’t see the minefield reference, but anyway.. The armed forces do have anti-mine field devices that are shot over a field and then remotely detonated. They’re quite effective.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:21:43 +0000

This stuff looks to work out just great!
Puts a whole new spin on “Getting stuck in”!

By: Stephen Furlani

Stephen Furlani — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 17:30:19 +0000

Mine fields aren’t cleared by “sandbags” mainly because most of the devices are more sophisticated than that.
Second, because detonating them pollutes the landscape. Want your kids eating shrapnel? Howabout planting a garden in an area polluted by the reactants inside a mine? mmm poison

By: EE

EE — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 07:18:59 +0000

Where can we get sticky foam?

By: Wembley

Wembley — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:38:14 +0000

Setting off landmines — or any device likely to throw out shrapnel — is not a good idea if you’re within 100 feet of them. You could get away with it a few times, but it’s risky.
As for the pig blood idea, it sounds like a great way to boost al-Qaeda recruiting and turn everyone in the world against the US.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:24:30 +0000

You know how the sound of fingernails on a blackboard makes you feel? Or the sound of a fork dragged, tines down, across a stainless steel pan?
Couldn’t those particular sound frequencies be amped up and used for crowd control? Wearing protective ear coverings wouldn’t work for the bad guys, ‘cuz they wouldn’t be able to hear what their leaders were saying.
And while I’m here, I have a couple more thoughts along this general line of discussion:
1. I’ve heard that touching pig blood, or any part of a pig for that matter, is like a deadly sin to those madmen killing our GIs. Why isn’t that fact, if it is a fact, used as a weapon? An explosive device that sprays pig blood instead of shrapnel, for example.
How about using squirt guns filled with pig blood for interrogations of terrorists?
2. “Humanitarian de-mining” is a big deal in many countries around the world. All the research I’ve seen focusses on mechanical, electrical and chemical devices and methods for finding buried anti-personnel mines. One method even tries to exploit the chemical sensitivity of bees to locate mines.
By all the accounts I’ve read, clearing an area of mines, once they’re located, is a slow, dangerous and costly process. Extracting the mines seems to rely on variations of mechanical robots and a-brave-guy-with-a-bayonet poking around in the dirt.
My question: Once a minefield is located, why don’t they just loft sandbags, old water-filled inner tubes, tires, sections of tree trunks or other round, heavy objects into the field and detonate the mines? There seems to be a definite reason for extracting the mines intact, but it’s never stated.
Can anyone here shed some light on this?

By: wesley hansen

wesley hansen — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 07:13:35 +0000

baby oil or mineral oil takes sticky foam right off, it
works quite well.

By: Terrain

Terrain — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:11:40 +0000

How would you get it off?

By: zzzzzzzzzzzzrp

zzzzzzzzzzzzrp — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 19:46:38 +0000

If I was a screenwriter, I would have the bad guys show up with truck loaded with 1000 goats to eat the foam