Comments by "roidroid" (@roidroid) on "Slow-Mo Non-Newtonian Fluid on a Speaker" video.

This made me think a lot about active structures, like buildings that require a constant stream of energy to maintain their shape, if they lose power they literally fall over. Or like what might be required to build space elevators. Or even the "structural integrity field" that helps spacecraft stay together in startrek. In this video you can see that each individal pulse of the subwoofer breaks and then reflows the strucuture of the blob, like a self-healing material. I do wonder if you could build larger structures outof dilatent fluids like this - coupled with some kindof vibrators (ie: electronic quartz timers). The advantage would be the material could self-heal, and by adjusting the vibration you can put it into a mode that allows it to be re-formed into other shapes - then adjust the vibration back and it will be re-locked into it's new shape.
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