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Iron Man-inspired material made from DNA and glass is 5x stronger than steel — and 4x lighter::Regular glass is brittle and fragile. But pure glass coated on DNA is a different beast entirely.

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[–] DingoBilly@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (10 children)

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.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

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.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

A cure for a cancer is worth billions.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

They want instant gratification and lack all empathy towards others. They're sociopaths.

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