US Army Will Study ‘Metamaterials’ Collected by UFO Study Group

No properties, no pictures, no masses collected for these amazing 'found' materials, nada

Peter Thiel can spend his money on whatever he wants, I guess. I'm not concerned

Polymers and inorganic complexes can do a lot of really interesting things that are counter-intuitive (ie becoming insoluble on heating, robust mechanical behavior), but they're expensive and require mildly annoying synthesis in some cases

If we have to harvest magic dust from a meteor or perform some complex synthesis to get it to work, it won't be any more widespread than specialty PNIPAM copolymers