Bio-Engineered “Super Glue” Sets New Strength Record – Could Transform $50 Billion Industry (scitechdaily.com)
from Dadifer@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 18:08
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Grangle1@lemm.ee on 23 Jan 18:11 next collapse

TIL super glue is a $50 billion industry

TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org on 23 Jan 19:14 next collapse

I got like five bottles of the stuff laying around my house.

AbidanYre@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 19:16 collapse

By the time you need them they’ll all be dry and you’ll go buy five more. Like a chump.

paraphrand@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 19:23 next collapse

They’ve played us for fools.

shoulderoforion@fedia.io on 23 Jan 23:51 collapse

we've been bamboozled

littlewonder@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 23:52 collapse

Not sure if this is helpful, but I’ve been using the gel gorilla glue version of super glue for a few years and I haven’t had any that dried out (yet).

shalafi@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 01:37 collapse

Gorilla products are top of the line in every way, every product. Now that I’m broke I can’t buy their shit anymore, but it’s well worth the $.

empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 23 Jan 21:37 collapse

Glue, sealants and adhesives in general are a massive part of the worldwide chemical industry and used in bulk by practically every single manufacturing process… it’s kind of wild how much of modern technology is basically dependent on “haha funny organic chemical be stickyyyyy”

notaviking@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 18:58 next collapse

Ok first of $50 billion! Second… Fuck what else is there except to see a YouTube of someone super glue their asshole with this new stuff and why he, because it will be a dumb guy unfortunately, needs us to donate to his gofundme for an asshole transplant

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 23 Jan 19:37 next collapse

Be careful with this shit, or you might find yourself in a sticky situation.

TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 22:15 collapse

My wife: how’s that new glue?

Me: 👌

PlasticExistence@lemmy.world on 24 Jan 00:23 collapse

👏

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io on 23 Jan 19:53 collapse

🤦‍♂️ It’s not a “super glue”. It’s a “super” glue.

This doesn’t appear to compete with cyanoacrylate (yet); they created a hot-melt stick and compared it against a commercially available hot-melt stick .

littlewonder@lemmy.world on 23 Jan 23:54 collapse

I’m still excited then because I’d love a more versatile hot glue.

MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io on 24 Jan 00:21 collapse

Oh. So am I! I didn’t mean to sound dismissive of it. I was just frustrated by the articles title because it is a different application (both method and use-case) than “super glue”.