Starlite, the nuclear blast-defying plastic that could change the world (telegraph.co.uk)

Really interesting. This article is old and the commercialization of Starlite never took off, and the inventor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Ward is now dead. The family supposedly has the formula.

Egg test video is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxqFyDugqs4. That is seriously amazing, is there any other materials like this?

I think SpaceX could find use for this material.

Evasive eccentric old guy, elaborate secrecy theatre, amateur beats chemists by tinkering: sounds exactly like a hoax.