Question Starlite - a Devisor in reality?

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Starlite - a heat immune material invented by a british hair dresser. Could withstand the equivalent of 75 hiroshimas. Could withstand temperatures of 10k degrees. Could protect an Egg from being cooked by a blowtorch. did not get hot, ever.

Ran across that video on Facebook. The fact nobody can replicate it and it defies all modern understanding of physics sounds just like a devisor material. Ward, its inventor, couldn't let it go because it wouldn't actuallyw ork if he did.

Given that this is reality, it seems it really IS real, but at the same time... it really does sound like a devisor material.

I heard about it. It's one of those things that HAVE to become urban legends... thing is, the inventor died without writing anywhere how he made it, his family denied any knowledge (despite him having said that they knew how to do it) and all material samples seem to have vanished too.

I suspect an elaborate hoax. Yes, the material was reportedly tested... but, well, there were all sorts of "paranormal" fakes that managed to fool scientists and were later exposed by stage magicians.

Iwasforger03 wrote: www.facebook.com/rankergraveyardshift/videos/1544728865613564/

Starlite - a heat immune material invented by a british hair dresser. Could withstand the equivalent of 75 hiroshimas. Could withstand temperatures of 10k degrees. Could protect an Egg from being cooked by a blowtorch. did not get hot, ever.

Ran across that video on Facebook. The fact nobody can replicate it and it defies all modern understanding of physics sounds just like a devisor material. Ward, its inventor, couldn't let it go because it wouldn't actuallyw ork if he did.

Given that this is reality, it seems it really IS real, but at the same time... it really does sound like a devisor material.

I remember seeing the original test video on an American TV show of the 80's 'that's incredible!"

And that stuff truly was!
they hit a sample of several inches of tank armor with a laser and it burned through it in seconds like butter!
half an inch of this stuff---several minutes under the same laser only cooked off a few thin paper thin layers and was still cool to the touch!
Harder than steel , but you could injection mold it like any plastic!
think of making an engine that did not really need oil, that lasted for over a million miles and weighed only half!
the perfect 3d printing plastic like out of the movie 'Minority Report' car manufacturing line

But the inventor really wanted it all, he wanted Billions up front in 1980s money! and keep the patent on top of that!
But he was right in his quoted interviews in the show---they spent billions to get what he already has--so pay me! and have it today!

ask me for more and we can chat it up!

So, bit of a tangent, but I recently came into possession of a bridge that I don't need. If anybody's interested in helping me pay the processing fee to the Nigerian government so that I can sell this great feat of civil engineering, I would gladly share half of the profits so that we may both swim in glorious riches for all of our days.

Kettlekorn wrote: So, bit of a tangent, but I recently came into possession of a bridge that I don't need. If anybody's interested in helping me pay the processing fee to the Nigerian government so that I can sell this great feat of civil engineering, I would gladly share half of the profits so that we may both swim in glorious riches for all of our days.

Of course that stuff really could have been an ablative heat shield, just a really efficient one, most modern heat shields are plastic, you can even make a heat shield out of white oak.

If it was an ablative, then none of it's industrially proposed uses would have been viable, NASA might have been interested but by that time they were already committed to and using the ceramic heat tiles.

Actually it sounds almost EXACTLY like an ablative heat shield, physics isn't being defied here what happens is when exposed to heat over 600c it gassifies the gas provides protection from additional heat and takes some of the heat away, sounds an awful like PICA and SpaceX's proprietary version PICAX that stuff is hard too, has to be in order to survive the rigors of re-entry.