You cut most of your science classes in high school, I’m just paying you back for them misdeeds.

It’ll be plenty expensive, you’ll insist you need them, and when you find out what it’s made from – you’ll rethink the whole “Brownline” genre.

Scientists have developed a self sealing rubber that can be torn, severed and pressed together for a complete repair ; you’re right in thinking it’ll revolutionize waders, no more patch kits and messy chemicals you replace yearly, and you might even be able to add “boot foot” cleats onto a stocking foot wader merely by cutting them off – then changing back later.

When the material is broken, the molecules on each side of the break lose their partners, and “so they look for partners to make these hydrogen bonds,” Leibler explained. If the two ends of the broken piece are brought back together, the molecules will re-partner with molecules on the other end of the break. But if they aren’t brought together within several hours of the break, the molecules will just pair up with other molecules on their respective end, and the material can no longer be repaired.
If the material does re-fuse, it retains the same amount of stretch as it did before and, “you can repair it many times,” Leibler said.

…ok, so you’ll be Cinderella, and you’ve got to make it back to the car by midnight, otherwise them severed stocking feet are toast..

The Brownline angle comes from the material itself, the rubber is comprised of fatty acids and Urea, which means if you piss on a Big Mac – you might be able to make your own. Nope, not joking – urine is 98% sterilized water and 2% urea, and if this stuff takes off – we’ll all be pissing in cups.

I love it. All them “Blueliners” that fear to trod the Brown-water will be “vogueing” each other while standing in pizzle. We learned a long time ago not to lick our fingers wading – it’ll be a bold new world for the rest of you.

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