 | Transparent aluminum?| SitRep Discuss Transparent aluminum? in the Military Matters forums; Sounds like the Star Trek movie, right? Well, it looks like it has become a reality! Check out this article:
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10-25-2005, 12:12 PM
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#1 | | "Shooter"
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Sounds like the Star Trek movie, right? Well, it looks like it has become a reality! Check out this article: http://www.livescience.com/technolog...new_glass.html
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10-25-2005, 12:17 PM
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#2 | | World Traveler
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Country:  | Really interesting stuff Eric. At the moment though it is two and half times the price of glass but I see this going into mass production before the end of the decade.
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10-25-2005, 12:21 PM
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10-25-2005, 12:53 PM
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#4 | | "Shooter"
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Country: | Yep, pricey for now, but that is not unusual for new technologies. I would imagine that it will become more prevalent. Cool science!
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10-25-2005, 03:47 PM
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Country:  | Clever stuff Eric as you say the price will come down, prototype materials always cost a bomb look at carbon fibre its a fraction of what it initially cost.
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10-26-2005, 07:11 AM
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10-26-2005, 07:46 AM
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#7 | | Minister of Whoopass
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Country: | Yea yea... George Lucas already had this stuff back in the day... Its called transparsteel....
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10-26-2005, 08:57 PM
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#8 | | the old Sage
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10-27-2005, 07:02 AM
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Country: | It will never catch on build a plane out of it and the pilot wont be able to find it. In a scramble all you'll see is guys in G suits running around the field with theirs hands streached out in front hoping to bump into their bird.
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10-27-2005, 07:05 AM
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10-27-2005, 07:26 AM
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10-27-2005, 07:29 AM
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10-29-2005, 09:33 AM
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