This could be abused

Da Wife and Kids made a small batch of this stuff yesterday. I thought they had just made a big mess in the kitchen, but then I started playing with the stuff. It's pretty cool: a liquid most of the time, but compress it or shock it in any way, and it acts like a solid. Very cool.

And who would guess that something as simple as corn starch and water would have a cool name* like "Non-Newtonian fluid?"

Here the hosts of a Spanish science show demonstrate its properties:

Getting back to the title of this post, I can think of other ways to use a wading pool full of this stuff.

Hmmmm... n o n - N e w t o n i a n   f l u i d . . .

* I do not consider the popular name to be cool. Not even a little bit.

Update:

This stuff gets around! And it supports the troops!