A few years ago, on “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” they had a guest who brought with him some sort of yellow-brownish fluid. He soaked a small round cotton pad with this fluid, then once it dried he used nothing but this pad as a link in a chain to lift a car with a crane. He then donned a suit of “armor” that was made from/with this fluid and allowed two men to beat him with baseball bats, to no effect. He then stood in front of a brick wall and allowed the crane operator to swing the aforementioned car into him, knocking him through the wall - again, to no effect. He wasn’t hurt, and the cotton pad was not damaged.
Does anyone remember this? Does anyone know the man’s name, or what the fluid was made of? Or even if it was real?
He’s a really interesting guy. Watch the documentary about his life, Project Grizzly, and you’ll… well you might still think he’s a crank, but you’ll respect him.
And he did produce a series of very, very good armored suits on a very, very small budget.
He’a very entertaining crank. It’s really funney to watch him get knocked over in his bear suit and see that he has no way of getting up. This guy is a real life Far Side character.
So his 1313 paste sounds pretty amazing:
“In the tests, the material successfully blocked explosive charges greater than those of a rocket propelled grenade, although they were not shaped charges, and was able to block shot after shot on exactly the same point of impact by a sniper rifle (which is a feat no material in use by the U.S. nor any other military has matched in public demonstrations)”
They’re pretty obviously untrue just by their nature - a liquid that makes anything 50 times stronger than steel. - there’s just something about claims like this that should automatically trigger skepticism.
Of course he did. Hilarity ensues. And again. And again. You can’t stop this guy. There is no word to describe his peculiar level of Genius-idiot because there has never been a poet or comedian creative enough to imagine such a ridiculous person. You have to watch the previously mentioned film.