After watching Black Panther I was curious to learn more about the fictional country of Wakanda. It is secretly located on the east side of Sub-Saharan Africa. First, it was a regular place but everything changes when a gigantic meteorite made of the fictional material vibranium.  Because of its ability to absorb, store, and release kinetic energy, it was kept secret by T’Chaka, the king at that time and father of T’Chala, to keep its existence secret. He was afraid that humanity would use it for evil purposes such as creating weapons of mass destruction. Which got me thinking what if vibranium was a real.

Personally, I believe that humans would use it with good and bad intention. We would use it to create spaceships that would allow humans to explore the majority of our solar system, renewable energy would be highly efficient and climate change would not be a problem, and so much more. Yet, humans would also use it to make bombs that would make current nuclear weapons look like firecrackers, impenetrable armor for infantry, and the list goes on. In addition, history would be vastly different since Africa would have probably been the continent to conquer most of the world rather than European countries. As an engineering student vibranium would be a dream come true, but it is probably for the best that it only exists on the Marvel universe.