Praise the Holy StarProphet!

Reasons for the new line is that there are people (as well as places like 4chin) who noticed White guy(s) in all black with gas mask(s), and umbrella(s) (and the only purpose of the umbrella seems to be hiding their identity) who seem to have be the first to start the “rioting”.
Obviously need to spin up a line fast or else the right wing understanding of this will become the mainstream version, namely that since we’ve seen this shit before, that it is a DNC or Soros agent, possibly of the “glow in the dark” kind.

The “white supremacists” is truly moronic, except for purposes of trying to make blacks distrust all white forever. Because of how universally “hated” “white supremacists” are, all it takes is one person that hears about or learns about some group planning things, and boom, cops or fed on them or infeltrate them immediately. Organizing rioting in multiple states is not something a handful of people can realistically pull off, unless they have access to lots of resources and state backing/protection.

Some of the most interesting advances i look for in materials science these days is in ceramics.

For instance, a garment spun from high tensile fibers is strong, abrasion resistant, chemically inert, and thermally protective (eg https://www.newtex.com/npm); everything you’d like to have in technical fabrics in a variety of rough conditions.

And these properties can be even more useful in construction engineering. An essential principle of elegance in design is elements that can satisfy multiple objectives within themselves, minimizing ‘dead space’. A classic example would be the chines on the SR-71, where the contours of the fuselage itself provided additional lift, thus allowing wing elements to be shorter, thus reducing frontal area, and thus reducing atmospheric drag that much more.

With such sorts of materials, functional elements can also be structural elements, insulating elements, shielding elements, and et cetera (eg https://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/technology-onepagers/protective_shields.html). As well as many other more specialized applications, such as ‘fire vacuums’ (sucking up burning or other hazardous materials to effect damage control, where more voluminous extinguishers would be inappropriate), or more seemingly mundane, but not less essential ones (like earthbags to quickly and easily build structures with long term durability).

For a long time many of the biggest players spent their energies down the hydrocarbon rabbit hole, which were new and exciting, cataloging every combination they can be put in together. As time went on though, it became increasingly obvious that one of the primary limiting factors to higher performance in many applications, is plain simple heat. And if there is one thing that characterizes hydrocarbons as a class of materials, it is middling performance at best with regards to thermal intensity. The implications are not just for the materials themselves, but how they may be combined with other materials, as well; different methods of manufacturing, fabricating, and constructing, that they may be utilized in.

Fatigue strength in general, and minimization of crack propagation in particular, has been an abiding interest in later years; and a lot of it basically comes down to adding fiber reinforcement to everything. Metal matrix composites, ceramic matrix composites, castable geosynthetics (ie, cementeous materials), ‘whisker’ inclusions in tool steel bits, you name it.

For example, one of the biggest developments in turbine design has been utilization of CMC blades and housings, in place of common superalloys. Attempts at the use of plain ceramics had been tried in the past, which have high strength, but brittleness was always a stumbling block. The innovation of 3d woven ceramic fibers, which were then impregnated with solid ceramic, produced a stiff element with even greater strength, resilience, and thermal performance, allowing engines to both run hotter, and be built lighter. Aside that, one of the best ‘transitional’ technologies is the use of ceramic coatings on metal substrates, which greatly improves the wear, corrosion, and heat resistance of the element, useful anywhere from low friction bearings to firearm parts.

Pure covalents, like oxides, carbides, and nitrides, have the highest heat resistance, while ceramics fluxed with alkali metals can be melted at lower temperatures, which allows them to be produced more easily with equipment constructed of more economical materials. The later are often called ‘glasses’ in common parlance, though they can have a wide range of formulations of various elements compared to ordinary soda-lime glass, producing materials with a range of different properties useful for one application or another; anything from greater strength, to resistance to certain chemical environments, to thermoptic performance (like low expansion), to unique electrical properties, or more besides (fibers of S-2 glass, for example, are one of the most common reinforcing elements around in aerospace applications, anywhere from radomes to laminated aluminum hull elements).

These materials can be utilized in almost any purpose; i might even go so far as to say that they are the most versatile materials there are to mankind; and more pertinently, the elements they are composed of are the most commonly found floating around in space. Ingenuity in their utilization is copacetic to the development of forms of capital that can, not just sustain themselves in space, but *grow* themselves in space.

As with many things in life, the solutions can already be out there; the biggest requirement is a broadminded visionary, who can see how solutions in one area, can be adapted to another. Erudition is not the product of a four year course or other momentary occupation, but occurs in men of habitual curiosity; those with a lifelong instinct for noting and following and acquiring anecdotes of curiosity, wherever they sense them, furnishing an arsenal of unknown knowns that can find themselves realized when the hours of decision come.

It’s an interesting mechanic, because obviously, even if you don’t believe these things, being forced to repeat them yourself leads to internalizing these ideas over time.

I’d like to see him order the arrest of police chiefs that don’t do their job, that’d be nice.