More like rubbing your junk in carcinogenic fiberglass. At least you can SEE cactus thorns.

That’s why I always wore a nomex thong when desert racing.

Nomex has been around since the late 60’s, and it works.

Looks like some fiberglass insulation there. That can't be good.

It was a "SharkTank" show launch; Lori, the woman VC got behind it; they went from 6 figures in sales to $6 million. The commercial campaign, this commercial campaign was pure brilliance.

The actual tech? Fiberglass tape pre-packaged with epoxy...or heat-resistant epoxy...

That was a terrible launch! Seriously, that was BAD. Good thing it's Fiberglass.
Having flown FPV aircraft before they would have been better off with one of these: http://www.fpvmodel.com/latest-version-skywalker-2014-1800mm-fpv-rc-plane_g6.html
It would have cost a ton less too...

I'll second that.
I built a nearly identical plane 25 years ago, it cost about $125, and another $200 for the controller setup. It's wings were made of fiberglass/graphite spars inside dense foam cores...easy to build, easy to repair, and didn't hurt if it hit a person. (it did only have about a 15 min flight time without thermals, but batteries and motors are better now) Why are they going with carbon fiber for a non-combat fixed wing drone over fiberglass and/or foam (or are they testing combat drones)? Is it just to make it cost more? Why not just CNC mill them out of titanium billets? ;-)

$50K? Something smells here. Should be under $1K unless there's a lot we aren't seeing. Maybe it's all in the electronics and optics (it would need a bit more than a cell phone camera), but it still seems exorbitant. I think it could be more efficient to make them cheap and disposable/recyclable rather than 'hardened'.

The rigid-hull inflatable uses the tube more as a stabilizer than flotation. They only become necessary in rough seas or hard maneuvering. The tubes are attached to a short-sided fiberglass or aluminium hull, which provides the buoyancy. At the end, you can see them slowly making towards home.

Smaller Zodiacs use the tubes as the hull, with just a sheet of rubber hanging between the tubes as a floor, so when the tubes lose air they completely collapse. In order to carry more than 3-4 people, you need a rigid hull for strength. Otherwise it would just flop all over the place like an inflatable life raft.

I was thinking the same thing; for dolphins, which live in an acoustic, not visual world, I wonder if all the coloration and stuff even makes a difference; I mean, to the dolphin's sonar, unless it's been very careful matched, fiberglass/plastic can't be bouncing the same as a flesh and shell---or can they?
Still, cool. Because dolphins, the jesters of the deep...

*quality

Oh god, that guy is bare-handling fiberglass like that? Yikes.

Must have been made with fiberglass? =o/

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I'm surprised how well the vette held up in that bump. Did they stop making them out of fiberglass?


A lot of them are using carbon fibre now. No damn idea what vette boy had in mind. Probably trying to make the off ramp you see as our videographers spin around.

Yea. Rubbermaid won the bid for the new body construction>> ^viewer_999:

I'm surprised how well the vette held up in that bump. Did they stop making them out of fiberglass?

I'm surprised how well the vette held up in that bump. Did they stop making them out of fiberglass?

>> ^Croccydile:

That is one strong bridge


Those truck boxes are the shipping equivalent of a balsa wood plane. The aluminum and fiberglass shell is just there to keep the rain off.

"A Statue of Liberty replica stolen from outside a coffee shop has resurfaced in chilling video that echoes the horrifying beheadings of journalist Daniel Pearl and others.

The fiberglass statue disappeared last month from in front of the Vox Pop coffee shop in Brooklyn and reappeared on the Fourth of July in a video posted to YouTube showing its horrible fate."

Read more here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Lady-Liberty-Beheaded-in-Ghoulish-Video.html
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I really dont know what to make of all this. Some sick minds at work here and not just because of the message. It's a philosophical problem many people are up against and to quote Sam Harris, 'the problem here is not the abundance of rational thought.'

People who do things like this make me sad more than anything.