Friday, May 08, 2009

Sticky in your pants

Sticky Wickets
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

sticky foam
... 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:
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?

Sploding Panty Liner

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Poke the foam.
xero

Rodger the Real King of France said...

10!

Keftan said...

I found a form of foam on my phone!

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