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Apparently, Starlite is very malleable and ductile, and can be bent into all sorts of shapes without breaking. So, whatever ceramic has been added to the plastic polymer is chemically reacting with it and bonding to the polymer molecules to create a ceramic-polymer hybrid. If Starlite is for real, then the thermochemistry and physics of this product is unique and very much different than the norm. Anything that could easily withstand the conditions it was apparently tested under would be utterly amazing. A thin coating (mm's thick) of the stuff could completely protect a craft like the Space Shuttle. It wouldn't even glow at reentry temps, let alone any hotter. What's even more amazing is after getting blasted at those temps, you can touch the stuff.
Like I said earlier, if it's for real, can you imagine the uses it could be put to for space exploration!!. So long as you could effectively shield the innards of a probe from the high energy radiation and powerful magnetic fields and induced currents, you could build the body of the probe out of the stuff and literally fly it to the Sun's surface...especially if temps of 10000 degrees won't even hardly touch it. You wouldn't even have to do that....just orbit the craft a few hundred miles above the surface would do. Being able to do that would eventually revolutionise our understanding of the Sun.
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