Another sci-fi trope becomes reality

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

http://www.technewsdaily.com/17202-veti-gel-stops-bleeding.html

Instant wound healing is such a familiar concept to us trek and sci-fi fans.

now a 20 year old student invents a gel that does just that!

Amazing!

 

[gturner]

That's bacta, which is Star Wars crap.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Can it grow kidney?

 

[sojourner]

I'm just glad this isn't another transparent aluminum thread.

 

[Edit_XYZ]

That's bacta, which is Star Wars crap.

It's irrelevant what franchise it reminds you of.

What matters is whether it works.
About that - was it published? Where? Peer review?
It's been 2 months since march - as per the link.

 

[gturner]

That's bacta, which is Star Wars crap.

It's irrelevant what franchise it reminds you of.

George Lucas raped my childhood, and I'd rather not be reminded of it.

*shudders to remember how Padme died of post-partum depression because the medical droids were too stupid to try Valium or something*

Perhaps I'll be approving if the researchers can figure out how to put the substance in a hypo-spray and apply it directly to a wound instead of making seriously injured patients swim in it while wearing an oxygen mask.

What matters is whether it works.
About that - was it published? Where? Peer review?
It's been 2 months since march - as per the link.

*spins conspiracy theory about Band-Aid brand and Johnson & Johnson, perhaps involving the entire suture industry*

There can be long delays in publishing, especially if the peer review feedback is asking for more data.

 

[publiusr]

Maybe these breakthroughs will prove a little more useful
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/08/better-armor-better-robots-and-other.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/First_laser_like_X_ray_light_from_a_solid_999.html
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/R...ubes_with_specific_atomic_structures_999.html
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/09/stacked-solar-cells-can-handle-energy.html

NSWRs http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=27962.0

Nice big asteroid nearby
http://www.universetoday.com/104554...it-to-earths-neighborhood-on-friday-the-13th/


This might be a nearby source of a lot of volitiles
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/U...ear_Earth_asteroid_is_really_a_comet_999.html

--the amount on Don Quixote represents about 100 billion tons of water-roughly the same amount that can be found in Lake Tahoe, California's.

And no lunar gravity well to deal with. HERE is your depot. I would have thought this thing would have been as dry as a bone after all this time--this close to the sun.

Sadder news, GOCE, the hot rod of space, is faltering
http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Spaces_Ferrari_set_to_fall_to_Earth_999.html

Dammit--this is what spacecraft should look like: http://spaceinimages.esa.int/Images/2004/03/Artist_s_impression_of_GOCE4

not BFI dumpsters with washerboards on sticks...