Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "How NASA Reinvented The Wheel" video.

  1. Awesome awesome episode! Specially for me, I've been wanting to know more about nitinol for over a full decade now, but I never watched anything that got this deep and was this comprehensive about it! Derek continues to amaze us with such good content! Given the properties of it, I have a question that wasn't covered in the video though... could nitinol be used for something like... bulletproof vests? It phase transitions into a fixed shape when heated, and the temperature when it does can be manipulated by the composite... it's also relatively light if I understand it correctly, and already being used in a sort of fabric/chainmail style for tires. Not sure about the property in really thin strands though, but perhaps it could be thinned down even further to make a mesh that could go inside a bulletproof vest layer? And then, perhaps with the properties it could lend some rigidity when shot, but be a bit more flexible during regular usage? Could be infeasible I guess, or not have the exact properties we're looking for... probably was already tested for application, if it's not already in active use. :P Anyways, great episode!
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