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Found this item in Winchell Chung's Atomic Rockets amazing locations page.
There's an amazing real-world analog to this material - coquina, which is a kind of rock formed by tiny coquina clam donax variabilis. It formed a kind of limestone.
When the Spanish built their fort at St. Augustine, Florida, they picked this material. Not knowing its strength, they built the walls twelve feet thick.
And it turns out that it is impervious to cannon balls! When the material is shot at, the stone compresses and absorbs the shock of the hit. Cannon balls just bounced off, or penetrated a few inches Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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