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To: LibWhacker
The films, which are around 100,000 times thinner than a human hair

Color me skeptical. A human hair is ~50 microns. 100Kx thinner would get you down into the atomic or even subatomic scale, I think.

50 microns = 50,000 nanometers. So 100Kx thinner would be .5 nm.

The diameter of a helium atom is .1 nm.

11 posted on 09/21/2013 3:09:53 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Mark Steyn: "In the Middle East, the enemy of our enemy is also our enemy.")
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To: Sherman Logan

Damned facts getting in the way of a good story.


12 posted on 09/21/2013 3:15:58 PM PDT by Vermont Lt (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who will watch the watchers?)
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To: Sherman Logan

Also...

Just how durable would such a thin skin be? Whoever thinks an ultra think coating on anything is going to last any longer than a soldier or Marine infantryman sets foot into either a training event or a battle AO hasn’t ever been an infantryman.


23 posted on 09/22/2013 1:33:17 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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