Comments on: These Gravity-Defying Sneakers Simulate the Feeling of Walking on the Moon https://www.odditycentral.com/news/these-gravity-defying-sneakers-simulate-the-feeling-of-walking-on-the-moon.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=these-gravity-defying-sneakers-simulate-the-feeling-of-walking-on-the-moon A collection of oddities that includes weird places, strange people, bizarre events and other odd stuff from all around the world Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:18:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: jjoensuu https://www.odditycentral.com/news/these-gravity-defying-sneakers-simulate-the-feeling-of-walking-on-the-moon.html#comment-703372 Wed, 17 Feb 2016 23:18:39 +0000 http://www.odditycentral.com/?p=50757#comment-703372 From the article:
“On their Indiegogo campaign page, startup Moonshine Crea reveals that the ingenious shoes are made from an “incredibly durable yet soft and breathable” synthetic fabric on the outside, while the inside is made of a DuPont Tyvek synthetic polyethylene used by NASA in space station modules.”

Two points:
1. about “DuPont Tyvek synthetic polyethylene”: polyethylene is simply common plastic and currently all plastic is synthetic. And yes, there is a lot of plastic on the space station.

2. about the “incredibly durable yet soft and breathable” synthetic fabric on the outside. It is “incredibly durable” according to whom? It would have been better to provide the proper name of this synthetic material so people can make their own decisions about it (after all it is also likely a form of plastic).

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