Guess We'll have to Stop making fun of Scotty in STIV

[Rackhir]

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

US Airforce develops Transparent Aluminum.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Kickin!

 

[Dark Jezter]

Yeah, but we can still make fun of Chekov and his nuclear wessles.

 

[Truth Seeker]

Wow, talk about the sci fi stuff becoming reality...

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

US Airforce develops Transparent Aluminum.

 

[Altalazar]

That's just sweet beyond words.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Depending upon the weight of this material, I can think of many commercial uses for it.

I wonder what the thermal properties are like.

 

[Joshua Randall]

Pfft -- they could've just cast glasssteel and been done with it.

 

[werk]

"The substance itself is light years ahead of glass," he said,

So...it is very distant?

Surmet Corp., an ALON Mfg.

 

[Dark Jezter]

Depending upon the weight of this material, I can think of many commercial uses for it.

I wonder what the thermal properties are like.

I want to start seeing transparant (or at least semi-trasparant) cans of Coca-Cola.

 

[JimAde]

What really bugs me about it is that in the movie Scotty says something to the effect that it'll take the guy 20 years to figure out how to manufacture it.

WHat year did that movie come out again?