invisablity cloaks and Mythril

kuwaizair · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 1:54 pm Post subject: invisablity cloaks and Mythril

I've been woundering where Mythirl orginated, We see it in vidio games and in Tolken's works but does it have an older orgin?

and where can it go? that I think I have an answer.

I'm lacking any links to articals on the web about this subject, but I do know that scientists are studying the make up of a very very well known (and annoying substance) called spider silk.

belive it or not, this stuff is so far the strongest natural substance found on earth. But you might be saying "fuh, strong? I can swipe it down with little effort"

but you aren't an instect caught in a web, nor are you the animal who created it....created it from its own body.

the protiens in the silk are the secrete ingredient, if you put S.S into human terms you'll have somthing stronger than steal and as pliable as silk. Scientists (i read in an artical) want to harness this protien and incorperate it into goats, these goats then will make speical milk that somhow can be "spun" into a strong fabiric, with these fabrics police can have bulletproof vests with hardly any fuss, with these new materials buildings can be stronger and call for less supplys.

so what do you think? There are sources on this, i just don't have them to link to, one of them is in (forget which issue) a National Geographic magizeen about "future fabircs", one of these possilbe wearable marvels includes (non spider related of course) "smart" fibars, cloathing that has micro technoligy. This fathomed technoligy bosts that when perfected the wearer can "be come invisable", (in a scientific sence, the suit will collect data from the environment and mimmick the surroundings)

these folks are scarry technoligies, its one thing to of thought moon travel was "science fiction" but when -fantasy- becomes science fact, you wounder how long it'll take before you can go buy your self "a coot widdle dwagon cub" at the pet store, or fling fire balls out of sticks (ok so it is a lighter)

I'm sorry for the incoherancy and spelling errors but for somereason i feel my ablity to be undestandable is worse (could be reason of feeling totaly worthless and incompentant) but if you understood what are your thoughts? I'd like to claim that this post isn't offencive, but If I would then...there lies the hurtfull words.
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Darkmagus · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

Sounds better than wearing a vest made out of diamond which is probably impossible. Spider Silk would make very good light weight armor then.
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Shrew · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:59 pm Post subject:

Soon everything will be made out buckminsterfullerene, because it is just that cool.
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Ikano · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 8:25 pm Post subject:

Honestly I've never even heard of Mythril until I saw the word used in my Harvest Moon game ^^;;

nor do I know anything about it, like how it's found...
hmmmm......
*goes to look it up in the dictionary*
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Alseid · Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 11:12 pm Post subject:

Fear the spider-goats.
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Sophita · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 2:41 am Post subject:

JRR Tolkein invented mithril as far as I know. My dictionary gives his novels the credit for it at any rate.

kuwaizair · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 9:53 am Post subject:

Glen Cott · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 10:48 am Post subject:

Mythril was (like practically every other fantasy idea) created by Tolkein.

As for spider silk, it is the most tensile naturally occuring material, but that goat idea seems a little far-fetched, I read that scientists were trying to create an artificial material which just mimicked the properties of spider silk.
It is a good comparison to mythril though.

Daniel Blackhand · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject:

I beleive the concept of mythiril is something of a mix between titanium and steel, you know its incredibily strong, light, and easy to manipulate yet you fing it in a mine kind of like iron.
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Darkmagus · Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:11 pm Post subject:

It's supposely the strongest metal like substance. That is if it really existed. If it really existed then almost anyone would be able to effectively swing a large sword. In most video games, mythril is one of those rarities. In Beyond the Beyond, I remember you had to go into some sort of cave and find mythril. Tolkien is probably the one who thought up the idea like Random Guy said.
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Filipe · Posted: Thu Aug 05, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

I have always wondered about that. What the heck is mythril and where is it found? Or as some believe did J.R.R. Tolkien just come up with it and since then games from all over have started using mythril this and mythril that like it's an actual stone of some sort. Well you know I am just going to leave this alone. For if it was actually real i am sure someone would have heard something about it somewhere before. We could always look it up on yahoo or google or something and see if we can find out whether it is made up crap or not.
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