Bulletproof Skin: Saving Millions of Lives

BulletProof Skin:

On average, 100,000's people are wounded by guns every year.

Scientists have developed something that could prevent gunshot injuries from happening.

Bullets

What if you replaced our skin with this material?

It's no secret that bullets are incredibly "powerful and dangerous".

A bullet can move up to 2,500 feet per second.

With this speed, it can make its way through walls, metal, and of course, human skin. 

So if we wanted to make ourselves bulletproof,

What exactly would we need to do?

Well, let's take a look at the scientists who made the first bulletproof piece of skin. 

A Dutch researchers team observed and created the skin using spider silk.

Credit: DCODE by Discovery

Well, Let's make it more clear: Since spiders don't produce a lot of silk, it's incredibly difficult to farm it.  

So instead, 

The scientists used CRISPR technology to create goats which capable of  producing spider silk

They spliced the spider silk gene with goat DNA. 

And after that the embryo produced a baby goat, that goat was able to produce milk containing the spider silk proteins.

And with that, the researchers were able to produce enough spider silk, which they combined with human cells to create bulletproof skin.

They found that this piece of skin could stop a bullet 

But only if it wasn't traveling at full speed. 

It's wonderful to thank the incredible strength of the spider silk.

This protein is 3x stronger than Kevlar & 10x stronger than steel

The spider proteins are more elastic than nylon.

Rather, these initial bulletproof skin tests were not able to stop a bullet at normal speeds,

let's assume they've improved the technology, and it can stop bullets with ease.

What would happen if it replaced our regular skin?

Spider Web

This new bulletproof skin might not feel much thicker than your regular skin. 

The reason is spider silk is 1,000 times thinner than a strand of human hair

And when doped or combined with our human cells, this new skin would feel just like our normal skin. 

But it would definitely act differently.

With this bulletproof skin, our bodies wouldn't be able to be penetrated by firearms.  

If all humans had this kind of skin, this would prevent thousands, if not millions, of deaths worldwide. 

Benefits:

If this type of skin became a normal genetic modification, it would most likely be given to the rich and powerful at first.

• Presidents, kings, and queens would be provided by this skin, keeping them safer from assassination attempts. 
• Next on the list would be military and police officers. With bulletproof skin, they would no longer need to handle bulletproof armor or protective equipment.

This would save millions of dollars and it would help them more agile on the battlefield. 

Injuries and deaths for soldiers could be hopefully and significantly reduced

Something to be noted:

But that doesn't mean bulletproof skin would be perfect.

Sure, our skin would be impenetrable, but you'd still feel the impact of the bullet. 

Getting hit by a bullet would, at best, feel like the hardest punch we've ever felt 

And at worst, it could easily break our bones.

So, don't go running around thinking we'd be invincible.

And with this in mind, bulletproof skin probably wouldn't affect gun violence either.

In fact, it might make it worse:

• Instead of shootings, there could be an increase in bomb attacks.
• And who's to say that manufacturers wouldn't just make more powerful guns,  to be more deadly?
• They could develop weapons powerful enough to penetrate bulletproof skin, making it completely pointless.

Bulletproof skin might sound like a great idea, but it wouldn't make much of a difference when it comes to violence.

Always Remember "Appreciate the initiatives but always get prepared physically and mentally for the worst".

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