Sci-fi armor now just completely implausible
The design language of body armor in science fiction has attained an optimum of implausibility. Form-fitting rigidity somehow allows unrestrained mobility in ways no fantasy of material science can entertain. Will someone involved please look for one moment at a real suit of armor? Bret Devereaux:
Now the funny thing is this material problem should…
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