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OGpsywar 6 points ago +6 / -0

Work on making a more ocularly transparent (and electrically insulating) oxidized liquid-breathing environment for human explorers.

(This liquids-are-incompressible feature is why people are trying to make astronaut cephalopods.)

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Aambrick 6 points ago +6 / -0

I guess you are talking about "meta-gel" then. The common term being meta-liquids since there has been case studies with the liquid being pumped full of oxygen so the human can breathe the liquid. The problem arises form the fact that they are drowning and breathing at the same time which a movie a while ago has done through an insane asylum(its fictional, but he liquid scene is very much real in terms of how a human would react) where hallucinations, vertigo, mind-altering effects, and various other side effects the least of which could be death.

The meta-gel from earlier was about creating a elastic, shock gel that doubles as a solid material when exposed to negative one hundredd (-100) degree temperature which is far hotter than the vacuum of space in the "cold" spots(basically the light of the sun that is being blocked by an object).

Not sure if it is in production now, but the theory is there and it should work. The problem is the material which strangely enough slime is turning to be the go ahead direction of implementation(a chemical slime). The problem is they have created it, but it is expensive, toxic to humans, and could be considered a weapon in certain situations. There is a variants, and none of them have been given the go ahead.

As for recent, some people are using Machine learning to speed up the process in meta-material science there was a technique developed(I think they were from Australia or Japan) that can search through hundreds of combinations for materials scanning.

https://www.machinedesign.com/materials/article/21836700/machine-learning-speeds-discovery-of-new-materials

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OGpsywar 4 points ago +4 / -0

More like 3rd+ gen perflourocarbon TLV's thru effort-facilitator apparatus.

('air' on mainships, liquid on 'diveships'.)

a gloss -

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing

.. but whatever gets it done.

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Aambrick 0 points ago +0 / -0

I am surprised they didn't have cellular wrap as a form of application. The cellular wrap converts the liquid as a first layer, a meta-gel for a second layer, the perfluorocarbons being the outer layers(if it is going to be a liquid then multiple liquids are likely to be used), and a high strength semi-skin suit as the container.

I think it would be more of a gel then a liquid because of the utility of the media. The structure of the Australian Tiger Beetle would be a good case to study.

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Lasernuts 4 points ago +4 / -0

Like the movie “The Abyss”?

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OGpsywar 4 points ago +4 / -0

That's both a film media and practical usage of it listed in the wiki link above.

They're way beyond that now, and also additional CO2 scrubbing can be done via installed venous lines.