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
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
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).
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.
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.
