Have we reached the pinnacle of knife development technology?

shane45-1911 said:
LMAO dude. Yes, I am right. Are you really this thick that you can't comprehend what this thread is about? No one is saying these things exist today.

I am saying there is MUCH more left to discover in our universe, and what we have and what we know today will not be anything remotely close to what we will have 500 years from now.

P.S. I majored in chemical engineering and got my B.Eng. before I became a cop. I have the textbooks AND the t-shirt.
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How do you go from Chem E. to Cop? 😲
 
Legendary_Jarl said:
How do you go from Chem E. to Cop? 😲
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Hahaha!!!! The short story is that there were no decently paying jobs right out of school. Everyone wanted work experience and/or teaching experience in the field. Having neither, I bounced around several contract-position jobs for a couple of years, while I was becoming more and more broke by the week. (Not that police work is going to make anyone a billionaire, but it was a few steps up from what I was making on contract, and it is steady, reliable, guaranteed work).

My uncle was a Staff Sergeant with the Ontario Provincial Police and suggested I apply. 40 years ago, anyone with ANY post-secondary degree had an enormous advantage in the recruitment process. Of course today, PD's focus on Forensics, Law, Psych or Sociology degrees above all else, but back then I already had a significant advantage even though there there isn't a lot of chemical engineering work in the law enforcement field.

I applied, I was accepted, and never looked back. :)
 
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Knives are like golf clubs. There will always be something new to separate you from your money.

I expect the metallurgy will improve and the new, best steel will be marketed in the future.
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
In sci fi novels occasionally there would be the use of knives with vibrating-blades, that vibrated at such a speed that the knife edge would cut through hard materials. Don't know if R&D is pointing in that direction, or some other technology.
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We were already there, kind of....

Are electric (poultry/meat) carving knives still a thing? Slap a high-torque/high-RPM motor in one of those, swap the crappy blade for something more effective and efficient, get rid of the AC power source and add a high amp battery and sci fi is now sci fact. :)
 
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in a lot of ways, we already are seeing materials science achieving this in many ways...

My background is comp.sci but all my electives were hard stuff, chem/physics/engineering/math & abstract math even...

look at where we are with carbon nanotubes... some composite of this will ultimately replace steel

we're at the point now where we're figuring out the fine grain microstructures are key to making things like this work in large scale applications

(on a hopeful note, hopefully this happens soon - it would be an awesome carbon sink & maybe help improve the planet overall)
the key is going to be the part of how to make this large scale, & practical ... skyscrapers out of carbon nanotube composites...
(as well as knives ; )
 
Locutus D'Borg said:
In sci fi novels occasionally there would be the use of knives with vibrating-blades, that vibrated at such a speed that the knife edge would cut through hard materials. Don't know if R&D is pointing in that direction, or some other technology.
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Heck yeah !

And "monomolecular " blades and razor wire , garrots etc . :cool::thumbsup:
 
What I already have is plenty good to cut most normal stuff .

But it wouldn't be cool to be able to slice up a main battle tank with your adjustable length, pocket matter annihilator ? :eek:
 
Uhm, is nobody remembering Vibroblades from Star Wars?
I used a VB in KOTOR.

I think the blade of the future might look like a very keen, sharpenable, chainsaw/serrated blade powered by fast electricity.
 
Steel is still basically concrete on the nano scale. Smaller carbides in a binder of softer matrerial. Molecular assembly of steel is where we will see the biggest improvements. Instead of average carbide size, we could have computer designed carbides, perfectly alligned in the matrix...wait! we use carbon in steel right? I seem to recall that diamonds are made of carbon. Computer designed diamond crystals perfectly aligned in the matrix of a self healing and constantly restructured titanium. Only takes a few minutes from the replicator in the garage.

Grizz
 
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