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Transparent Aluminum ~ Three Times Stronger Than Steel

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm http://www.scifighter.com/news/newsfeb02/feb21aluminium.php3 http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/project/proj070.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/0%2C1518%2C183008%2C00.htm


http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm)
Transparent Aluminum - Three Times Stronger Than Steel

I don't know the verasity of these articles but it is ceratinly new technology that changes social and political issues...so I'm throwing it in for that discussion...technology is the name of the room we are in and the doors are slamming shut...those not in the room will be left out and probably won't survive except in turdworld shitholes unworthy of our visit! (I intended for that to sound empiracle! hope it did)

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yet another technology that got "invented" on Star Trek and is now being developed in real life. Just like Rapid Prototyping technologies could be thought of as primitive versions of the Star Trek replicators (only making plastic parts not food). www.3dsystems.com
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    ROFL, I was about to ask if that was something from Star Trek. It seems I remember Kirk going back in time to save the world from aliens who spoke humpback whale or something.

    How exactly is it that this changes social and political issues?

    [ 26-02-2002: Message edited by: Texas ]
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Nanoscientists are already producing carbon fibres that are kinda extended buckminsterfullerenes. These are 20 times stronger than steel in bundles and many times lighter. At the moment, however, they are unable to produce particular fibre lengths "to order" - so the results are not very practically useful. They're making progress though. I recently attended a lecture on the subject by a leading nanoscientist, Sir Harry Kroto, at UCL.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I find it odd though that a huge scientific discovery like this one has not made more papers?
    Think of the significance or aluminium windows? Impossible to break, perfect for the space program. I'm surprised that it hasn't had more coverage.
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Well, only one of Diesel's links is any good, and from the picture the 'aluminium' looks more translucent than transparent.

    Why isn't it in all the papers? Maybe it isn't true <IMG SRC="wink.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
    Or maybe just that the potential for this invention is less of a newsworthy story than an actual device that uses the technology. Only time will tell. Until it does, this is science fiction in my book.
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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Originally posted by Diesel:
    <STRONG><img src="http://www.rense.com/1.imagesC/clearalum.jpg&quot; alt="image"></STRONG>

    yes, translucent. Not transparent. If it is true then it should have recieved more news coverage IMHO
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Yeah, I remember that one, the original cast went back and they made some transparent "aluminium" (with an "I" - for all you americanised people --- it is an english word and therefore must have the "I" pronounced)

    Don't think there's much truth in this story - and that picture looks more like dirty old plastic from one of my science lessons years ago....

    snoogens
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I'll go back to my source and pose the entire post here.

    I have no idea whether this is a hoax or not...if true and it may be, then we are all watching the beginnings of a new technology...in this case, expensive but not that hard to do if the need is there.

    "...there be whales here!" I just love that line...my kids grew up on startrudge and we still watch the movies sometimes...reinforces that ol imperical directive feeling!

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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm http://www.sci-fighter.com/news/newsfeb02/feb21aluminium.php3 http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/factsheets/project/proj070.pdf http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/0%2C1518%2C183008%2C00.html


    (from www.Rense.com http://www.rense.com/general20/transparentalum.htm)
    Transparent Aluminum - Three Times Stronger Than Steel

    A ceramic research lab in Dresden, Germany, has developed transparent aluminum by subjecting fine-grained (I'm guessing extremely fine-grained) aluminum to a whopping 1200 degrees Celsius ...the result of which is amazingly light but three times tougher than hardened steel of the same thickness, and it's see-through.

    Needless to say, the Pentagon is quite interested.


    From Spiegal Online (German) after being mangled by Bablefish:

    Of America weapon technician show interest in a tank page frame from Dresden. In the there institute for Fraunhofer for ceramic technologies succeeded in baking fine-grained alumina in such a way with 1200 degrees Celsius in the furnace that an extremely hard, transparent material develops.

    A 10 times 10 centimeters large disk (strength: only about 400 gram weigh, are however three times harder 1.0 cm as hardened steel. With firing tests under contract of the German Federal Armed Forces from the Bundeswehr in Koblenz " outstanding results " were obtained, report the researcher Andreas Krell.

    Also in the US state Idaho were examined the tiles: The pentagon is fascinated of the transparency of the material, with which firingfixed of visors or large windows of armored reconnaissance vehicles can be built.


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  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    This topic belongs in the technology forum.

    BUT, we don't have one, funnily enough so ATG's will have to do. <IMG SRC="tongue.gif" border="0" ALT="icon">
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