Spiderman can become a reality: Bulletproof skin is made (VIDEO)
Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- A Netherlands’ researcher Jalila Essaidi has created a bulletproof skin for humans! The innovation is a composite of human skin that can stop bullets.
The amazingly rugged material combines spider silk protein with goat milk and implementing the mix in human skin. The final product is so strong that it can stop a bullet fired by a .22 calibre Long Rifle.
The project is called “2.6g 329m/s,” because 2.6 grams and 326 meters a second are “the maximum weight and velocity of a .22 calibre Long Rifle bullet from which a Type 1 bulletproof vest should protect you,” as Essaidi says.
How did they do it? Actually last year a team at the University of Wyoming experimented with introducing the “spiders’ dragline silk gene into goats in such a way that the goats would only make the protein in their milk.” As a result researches have useable spider silk, and in larger quantities than from a few temperamental creepy crawlies.
At the moment it is too early to say something about the successful implementation of this bulletproof skin in reality. Essaidi’s project’s skin isn’t completely stopping bullets all the time yet. Anyway she in the future plans to replace the keratin in our skin with spider silk, so that our bodies (and not some outer layer we’re wearing) could stop a speeding bullet.
The theory and the test are interesting but some questions still appear because the concept is so far from perfectness. For example, even if the skin can stop the bullet what about the organics under it? The impact of the potential gunshot would still be powerful enough to break bones and turn internal organs into jam. The bullet won’t be capable to tear the skin, but severe internal bleeding and possibly death would likely occur anyway…
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