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I remember blogging
about Silly String being used by American troops to detect trip wires
around bombs. Before entering a building, troops squirt the
plastic goo, which can shoot strands about 10 to 12 feet, across the
room. If it falls to the ground, no trip wires. If it hangs in the air,
they know they have a problem. The wires are otherwise nearly
invisible. Now Don M advises me that Sticky Foam Gets Serious
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some facilities storing uranium and plutonium now boast steel doors
with containers of hydrocarbon solution built into them. Breach the
door, and the liquid comes foaming out under high pressure, expanding
in bulk by a factor of forty and sealing the breach with an impassable
obstacle.
The idea is that sticky foam will delay any attackers for long enough
for the defenders to call in reinforcements. Experiments with
explosives found it was impossible to break through the doors without
the foam barrier deploying. Another test showed how a defender could
release the foam by shooting it with an M-16. According to Ronald Timm,
president of RETA Security:
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Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
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