mccJun 25, 2024

Wait what

EDIT: I should have included the link https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/

No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

The Atlantic
Show threadAaruni Kaushik
@mcc i think ive read this one. Wasnt it a case of someone transporting a bunch of things and they made this slime in self defence and the car bogged down? (Sorry for the vagueness, it must be at least an year ago that i read it)
Jun 26, 2024 at 7:36amWeb
Show threadmccJun 26, 2024
@double_a_runi Yeah, there's some links in the article I screenshotted above https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/hagfish-slime/581002/
No One Is Prepared for Hagfish Slime

It expands by 10,000 times in a fraction of a second, it’s 100,000 times softer than Jell-O, and it fends off sharks and Priuses alike.

The Atlantic