Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] This was Star Trek stuff yesterday

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

No joke man!  My grandfather was raised on a farm in Missouri and they
didn't use any tractors.  Mules and he stuff they dragged.  He is still
to this day amazed at all this new stuff they have out.  Though he
disagrees with the history archives on some stuff.  Like the first
helicopter.  History says the first experimental flew AFTER WW2.  Well
he says he saw one just a few weeks before he was discharged in early
'45.  He was in the navy and saw this ugly God-foresaken craft hovering
in the air over a ship just outside Phily (I think it was Phily).  He
was USN on a refridgerator ship in the Europian theater.  He also told
me a story about a nazi sub that got clipped by depth charges out in the
Atlantic.  The sub came practically straight up out of the water like a
rocket, stern first.  Went crashing back down in the water and that was
it.  Last they saw of it.  There were some sub sailors they rescued, but
he said they died a pretty painful death within a day or so.  He said
they had the bends.
Carl


Carsten Standfuß wrote:
> 
> 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.

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