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So what are some cool applications of this?

Some of my friends are implementing a blobchain using it.

Proof of Slime. I can see the headlines now: Sunk Cost - Blobchain Miner Cracks Foundation in Massive Slime Spill

The way they talked about it expanding and it’s softness I thought it was a new crash absorption technology like in Demolition Man (the movie with Bullock, Stallone and Snipes) where it instantly fills the car

The US Navy has figured out a way to create the slime in a lab - https://newatlas.com/hagfish-slime-us-navy/47544/

They’re hoping to use it for shark repellent and ballistic defense.

I wonder if you could throw it in the water while running away from other ships or submarines; if you can gum up their propellors thats going to be pretty useful

First aid for burns. Imagine an ointment tube of this that you could immediately apply to large burns then simply add water and create a sterile coverage for moisture retention under bandages

Spacecraft re-entry?

Firefighting gel

...of doom.

Probably industrial surface coatings, paints, epoxies, sealants, greases, etc where you need to obtain certain mechanical properties from the fluid using the least volume possible (because every bit of additive is displacing the product that does the real work).

Neat ideas! Perhaps engine oil?

Protein and heat.

The Maillard reaction?

Bearing lube?

Organic stuff doesn't tend to like non-earthly levels of heat so doubtful except maybe to add clingyness to some low temperature greases.

As I was reading, I thought the article was about to answer this. I guess I have to add “No One is Prepared” to my mental clickbait filter now.

Riot control maybe? A water cannon injecting this stuff into the stream would be intimidating.

I'm thinking Halloween prank.

I wonder if it could be used as a barrier in oil spills or other applications. Could be cheap, biodegradable and compact.

I kind of want to know what happens if you eat it. It probably puts psyllium husk to shame.

Nothing, that's what happens. The fish slime is almost entirely water, with only milligrams of protein in it, which you digest just as though you'd eaten a tiny bit of egg. Koreans eat quite a bit of hagfish. It's just seafood.

Psyllium fiber is an indigestible carbohydrate, usually consumed in quantities thousands of times greater than the amount of protein in fish slime.

I've been trying to get some of my friends to make hagfish jelly.

Web like projectiles to grapple and swing around NYC sky scrapers?

Space structures?

Intriguing, explain.

Not gp, but the protein structure implies the ability to fold materials and expand them really fast. It might be helpful in designing new space habitats. Alternatively, the proteins could be used to contain liquids in zero gravity. If you have a way to extract the proteins, you are left again with just water.

This probably wouldn't work. It's a biological system, so past a pretty tight temperature range the weak bonding forces of the protiens will denature, or lock up from the cold.

Rapid deployment of large structures in zero gravity?

Flat pack construction?

sea-bag for cars?

Currency?

Crypto slime hag tokens

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