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Just to elaborate on DuPonts knowledge of ss. This is from a 2011 article.....

Kevlar is not metal. It's flexible and it's stronger than steel, according to Tucker Norton, a ballistics expert at duPont. He demonstrated Kevlar's strength with the DuPont Bullet Shooter 3000. "Today we're gonna use this .44 Magnum bullet here against Kevlar XP, we'll see who wins," he said.

The Kevlar did not stop the bullet. "Well, not the first layer," said Norton. "But what's important is all the layers." Indeed, the bullet was still within the vest.

Norton told me that a Kevlar rope actually could replace those steel cables on the ship - at a very high cost. But he also mentioned a material that's stronger yet.

"If you look in a spider web, if you just took one single strand of that spider silk, that strand is stronger than steel as well - a lot like Kevlar," said Norton. "The problem is, we haven't figured out how to make that commercially at a large scale."

He's not kidding. Actually, it's pretty darned hard to make spider thread at a small scale.