whizzball1

Myriad Reality

Remember me?

@Blizz

Yes.

Myriad Reality

Aha! I've solidified the design more in my head. David, once you're on Skype I'll ask you about it.

Myriad Reality

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I'd have that fight with Dark and Soul's guy.

@DarkwolfX37

What-If Rifts for the win.

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I'm also not saying "good luck" as if I don't believe you can do it, I'm actually wishing you good luck with it.

@DarkwolfX37

Oh! Well, thank you. That's a surprising thing to hear from you concerning me.

Myriad Reality

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Remember that we're just now getting to nano scale manufacturing. We have no idea how things work at this level.

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Yep.

For a full patent, you have to have some sort of proof.

@Nimda

Caltech doesn't necessarily ask for patents. It asks for research. A patent would be nice, though.

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Right. I'm not saying it's not possible, just good luck because you've got to either invent the material or wait until it's invented.

@DarkwolfX37

Inventing the material is not too far off of a prospect. I'm more capable than you might think.

Myriad Reality

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Not that would react the way he wants. We'd need a new material(s).

@DarkwolfX37

Then they could be invented. Surely it's not so hard to create a material that expands in heat, because that's sort of how air works. A material that absorbs less heat when it's compressed might be a bit harder, but at first blush it seems possible enough.

Myriad Reality

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Not necessarily. Synthetic materials could be arranged in a contracting/expanding method. It would just have to be done on the nano scale.

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You don't have to do it to patent it. You just have to think it can be done =P

@Nimda

OMQ
YOU HAD THE EXACT SAME IDEA I DID

Oh, really? Well then. This just became a more approachable goal than I thought.

Myriad Reality

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Forget what I said it's BS irl I thought you meant IC.

Nano-machines would work well. Else non-machine would require things not known about yet, so good luck.

@DarkwolfX37

Not necessarily. Imagine if some object was made up of two different materials. One expands in heat, and another heats up when it isn't too compressed. With enough heat, the first material would expand and compress the second material, which would then slow down absorption and then eventually practically stop.

Myriad Reality

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Uhm.. Ice? A solid-state of some other liquid? Some sort of chemical mix that allows mercury to freeze at a high temperature and then melt at the target, in a device that allows for the mercury to seal the insides, preventing the mix from interacting.
Btw Mercury freezes at -38.83 C / -37.894 F.

@DarkwolfX37

in case you didn't notice, I meant a fabric

Myriad Reality

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Right. You'd have to create some microthreaded materials in order for them to behave exactly how you want them to. Fortunately for our age group, however, the manufacturing process on the nano scale is improving significantly.

@Nimda

Exactly. I think it's possible; it'll just take some thought and a lot of experimenting that I probably don't have the money for. But I'll figure it out.

Myriad Reality

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It'd probably be very difficult without electronic components.

@Nimda

Not necessarily. Perhaps at a certain temperature, the heat-absorbing parts start closing up. But that's an incredibly rough idea, since I don't even know what the "heat-absorbing parts" would be, or if they'd be parts at all.