Comment on Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter

qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• DingoBilly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep. As soon as you read the title you know it’s useless.

  Either too expensive, or it only works at a microscopic level but doesn’t scale, or just doesn’t actually work.

  It’s like all the cancer cures you hear about that unfortunstely mostly don’t pan out. Just clickbait headlines.

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  • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s like all the cancer cures you hear about that unfortunstely mostly don’t pan out.

    That one is worse than you think. More than one viable cancer cure was destroyed by stock market shenanigans - bad actors short sell the company in to the ground, take over the board, destroy what’s left of the company, sell off what they can piecemeal while trashing the rest, and they do it that way only because they don’t have to pay back those shorted stocks with no company anymore, they don’t at all care what the company is doing only that they can parasitize it. It’s twisted as hell.

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    • Zirconium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Got a source for this? Sounds like an interesting story

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      • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I had it linked in my reddit account which I wiped clean months ago… if I have time I’ll search the account dump for it though.

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    • atzanteol@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A cure for a cancer is worth billions.

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      • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Cures are worthless compared to lifetime treatment regiments. That’s putting aside the other facts like how widely varied cancers can be making a singular “cure” infeasible.

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  • Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    One thing to always have in mind is that the poor researchers making these discoveries are victims too. They spend months, if not years researching and when they publish their research, some random tech website make a clickbait article about it. Usually by taking a sentences out of context and using hyperbole.

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  • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    A lot of cancer stuff isn’t actually a cure, and if it is it’s only for a specific type of cancer and the success rate is never a headline item.

    So you read a headline that says “cure of cancer” which is conveniently leaving out “for specific cancer abc in these specific circumstances with a success rate of 58%”

    There’s never really been a true “cure for all cancer 100% success rate” found, and anyone who claims otherwise is misunderstanding the science being discussed.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      not to mention many such “cures” that make it to the headlines are still the animal trial phase…

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Aluminum was used as the cap to the Washington monument because it was worth so much…

  Takes a while to make stuff cheap

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• IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It could also be that the material is just not all that special. “Stronger than steel” is a very easy goal to achieve. Lighter is easy too. Now pair those two with higher fracture toughness, and you have something worth talking about.

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  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Stronger than steel”

    Recovering machinist here, and I agree. The other thing that annoys me about “StRoNgEr ThAn StEeL” is that there is a wide variety of different types of steel, all with different strength charachteristics. Some types of steel are 5x stronger than other types of steel.

    Same thing for Ford’s “Military grade” aluminum. The truck bodies are made out of 5052 and 6061 depending on how it’s shaped. Those are literally the most common grades of aluminum. And that’s what you’d make a truck body out of, but its funny.

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Also, industrial grade, surgical grade, space grade or whatever grade stuff is just funny marketing BS to me. You could probably come up with fancy terms for selling something as mundane as pencils. Instead of calling the materials wood and graphite, these marketing monkeys would probably use some fancy super high tech words instead.

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      • CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        These advanced pencils are designed by A.I. and use biological carbon foam encasing stacked layers of graphene!

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      • overload@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The only one I have personal experience with that’s real would be “analytical grade” with respect to chemicals. And probably Food grade. Those actually mean something.

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• CmdrShepard@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah articles talking about them usually say something about how “in 10 to 20 years it’ll be ready for mass production!” and then you never hear about them again.

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