Possible radiation blocking fabric?

[Escape Artist]

Cool shit if it has any merit.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20021114/sc_nm/science_fabric_dc

LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have created what is claimed to be the world's first radiation-proof fabric which provides as much protection as a lead vest but at a fraction of the weight.



Instead of heavy metals to block radiation and X-rays, the new fabric called Demron is non toxic, lead-free and fused between two layers of woven fabric.


"Demron's potential applications range from lightweight full-body suits -- that would allow the wearer to move unencumbered in high-radiation areas -- to protective tents and radiation-proof linings for aircraft and spacecraft," New Scientist magazine said Wednesday.


Unlike traditional protective clothing that only protects against alpha radiation, the new fabric developed by the Florida-based company Radiation Shield Technologies also blocks beta and gamma rays. All three are emitted by the decay of radioactive substances and X-rays.


The fabric was originally designed to protect medical staff from X-ray radiation in operating rooms but its creators believe it will also be useful in the nuclear industry.


But Janine Claber, of British Nuclear Fuels, said the real test of how good the fabric is will depend on the level of protection it offers and how it reacts when subjected to radiation.

[Billyman]

Still.......

No cure for cancer.

[Escape Artist]

Wrong.

Scientists in October have formulated a reasonably good vaccine against it that chokes out the nutrient supply to mutated cells - though they haven't managed to make it work as well in humans as they have in mice.

Give 'em time.

[Billyman]

Originally posted by Escape Artist
Wrong.

Scientists in October have formulated a reasonably good vaccine against it that chokes out the nutrient supply to mutated cells - though they haven't managed to make it work as well in humans as they have in mice.

Give 'em time.

Still, NO CURE for cancer. :p:D

[Escape Artist]

No cure for the millions of viruses people term the common cold, either.

For that matter, did ya know that any and all virii are not cured by vaccines? They're merely forced into remission, where the human body is able to beat them back down. Never gone, never cured.

;)

[Billyman]

Jeebus, can you make a fucking issue out of every comment?

Scientific breakthroughs occur daily. I'm happy to see that they do. Those breakthroughs are what helps our little worlds advance to that next level. Tis cooj. A hundred new discoveries a day. Good deal. Just seems if all these fuckers are so smart and they work together, there could be a CURE for the common cold, a CURE for AIDS, a CURE for cancer, etc.

Scientist come in all different sizes and shapes. Thier fields of study differs greatly. But somewhere down the line I funded the finding of the process to make Rubbermade products. And what a signifacant impact it has made on my life.

[Escape Artist]

Well, technically, the cure for all these things is simple:

Immerse the person in a vat of extremely corrosive acid.

Problem solved. :p

Case in point, this cancer vaccine? It'll kill off cancer, but it stunts regrowth of blood vessels - might do the job, but it's not acceptable. Humans iz complex like that. We're also limited by technology - can't fix things if we don't have the tools. Let's see j00 build a Maserati with a rock, arrow, and campfire...even though you know a car from the ground up. Consider the span of time it took us to get where we are now technologically, and go easy on the eggheads. :)

[AcidzCraze]

I personally would not be thrilled if they found a cure for cancer, AIDS or the common cold. Well, perhaps colds since people don't die from them.

Don't get me wrong, I not an advocate of everyone dying, and it might be easier for me to say all of this since I am not suffering from cancer at the moment.. But if its not cancer or AIDS, it'll just be something else. The unknown scares me. At least now, we can <i>cope</i> with these diseases.

They are always going to exist--It's nature's population control.

If we have to have something, I choose the things we are semi-familar with.

[Cruise Director]

Originally posted by Escape Artist
Wrong.

Scientists in October have formulated a reasonably good vaccine against it that chokes out the nutrient supply to mutated cells - though they haven't managed to make it work as well in humans as they have in mice.

Give 'em time.

Here's the problem as I see it..... we keep testing and finding cures for things in MICE. Well, quit finding cures on mice and start testing things on HUMANS. I'm sure we can find some humans out there somewhere that are a.) willing or b.) useless enoguh to do some testing on.

[AcidzCraze]

Originally posted by Cruise Director
Here's the problem as I see it..... we keep testing and finding cures for things in MICE. Well, quit finding cures on mice and start testing things on HUMANS. I'm sure we can find some humans out there somewhere that are a.) willing or b.) useless enoguh to do some testing on.

Actually, here in Austin, we apparantly have a massive testing center. Everyday on the radio we hear ads for people to be guinea pigs for money. Also, I heard on NPR that they are testing some MS people on Lipitor to reduce symptoms of MS.

(Lipitor is a drug commonly used to lower blood pressure and is recently thought to have a hand in relieving symptoms of MS. However, it has been shown to produce a high amount of liver enyzmes thus increasing the chance for disease or chirrosis of the liver.)