One Kilogram Of This New Polymer Material Can Turn A Swimming Pool To Jelly

WoWzers, polymer!

I wonder what harm it might cause to humans if ingested?
As long as it is safe to humans, neat!

I can't imagine yet the usefulness of this polymer yet, so
I look forward to other peoples comments!

I could see this used as a non lethal way to stop boats, simply fire a casing of the polymer along with a chemical heater to quickly gum up the props of a boat.

Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'

Could this be used for environmental catastrophes such as the BP spill?

jjaviid,
Agreed! Imagine a Mac truck tanker spill or Train tanker spill into the environment. Considering a kilogram makes a swimming pool gel, it could be an environmental disaster to clean up.

This is pretty interesting news. intriguing news but yes this could have helped the oil spill in many ways.

I saw something like this on a movie or something.
It got loose and turned all the world's water to jelly.
Now they made it for real.
What could possibly go wrong?

Amazing. I wonder if it`s biodegradable perhaps this could be dispersed in large quantities by plane into approaching hurricanes like previously with SANDY and make much of the water (not the wind) fall down into the ocean before it hits. With Superstorm SANDY that would have saved tens of billions of dollars in costs from water damage/flooding.

Maybe it could be used in storing large volumes of water in gelatinous form, and later be extracted out. That would be useful in carrying water in space.

Does it come in flavors and colors?

So thats how ninjas ran on water they throw some of this down and book it...

Am I the only one who is scared by this? Terrorists could fill up drones with this substance and crash it into the great lakes or something...seems more dangerous than good at this point. Ice nine indeed.

Might make a good weapon to spray on terrorists to immobilize them in yucky mucky sticky stuff. Certainly something to look into for our schools to protect kids.

ICE-9

That bandage idea would be cooler if the stuff wasn't made of cyanide..

As for the ninja idea from craj, shhhh! the Christians are listening...

Yeah, my mind immediately went to Ice-nine...imagine a tanker full of this stuff accidentally going into a water supply. ^ ^;

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If its that efficient and you put it on a open wound would it expand into your blood stream?

I don't know the bonding properties of this material, but getting FDA approval for a battle dressing compound containing cyanide...guess it's all about quantity transferred over time. Say someone with 3 gunshot wounds needs dressed. Could this be safely used to treat him for as many hours as needed? Then, how does it react in contact with our range of biochemicals? People tend to get shot pretty much all over. I don't think this would be good in contact with acids, specifically. Methane gas or solids either.

Wouldn't turning water into gel be harmful for wildlife in the vicinity? In that case, I'd rather see it used for emergency purposes, say, stopping ships fast or helping people escape sinking cruise ships does sound nice though.
jjavid's idea is wonderful as well.