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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] This was Star Trek stuff yesterday
Great stuff - next step : seawater resistant transparent aluminium
- with curved surface.. or magnetic photonen generator protecting
shield instead of dome windows.. .. or full holographic submarines
in real water ..
Don't laught - look 25 years old Star Treck films - and than down to
your
hand held telephon.. my old computer here has more memory than the main
unit
on NCC 1701 A (Kirk's ship..)
Or imagine a disscussion about the Moon Landing - with Charles Lindberg
in Paris 1927 .. just 40 years before..
Carsten :-)
Coalbunny schrieb:
>
> Not sure of the validity of this article/subject. Open for input.
> Carl
>
> (from 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.