How has no one been able to replicate Starlite? It's been decades
>>16284312they have replicated it.
>>16284379Really? Last I heard no one has made a material with its exact properties
>>16284394I gotta be honest man given the timeline it's more than likely the old man was exaggerating somewhat. You ever talked to a old guy like that? Just last week some boomer I was buying hot sauce from claimed to have invented a process in my industry that would've made him a millionaire. Anyway it probably had some fatal flaw that made it useless for practical application, like shattering after sustained heating or something. It just needed to hold up for tv demonstrations, which is not a very rigorous testing environment
He sold the formula to a company but it's not commercially viable. It's basically just starch grains and a binder with some other shit thrown in. It's too fragile and I'm pretty sure it's water soluble.