Transparent Aluminum Now A Reality
Nov 28, 2015 8:58:48 GMT -6
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Post by Rickster on Nov 28, 2015 8:58:48 GMT -6
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The wife and I joke about this all the time. It shows up in a movie and soon it becomes a reality. The uses for this seem to be endless but to me this would have the best use in space, and this is a possible exposure of the black project secret space program. I think we have to ask ourselves how something like this could be in a movie released in 1986? Or better yet ask ourselves how things appear in movies without foreknowledge? How would you conceive of transparent aluminum with knowing of its technological development or its prior existence? One day the writer woke up and said, lets make a segment in the new Star Trek Movie about transparent Aluminum. That would be some kind of crystal ball now wouldn't it.
I am sure this is pure coincidence, and when it shows up on Mars to fight dust and debris while traveling the surface you can say boy they put that technology to use fast. Specially since we were already there and haven't been back yet.
"The way mankind has progressed is impressive to say the least, and what was once in the realm of science fiction has once again, become reality. What am I referring to? Well, I remember transparent aluminum in Star Trek: The Voyage Home? (watch the clip below) Well, it seems that transparent aluminum is as real as it gets today, thanks to US Naval Research Laboratory scientist Dr. Jas Sanghera who described it as “actually a mineral, it’s magnesium aluminate. The advantage is it’s so much tougher, stronger, harder than glass. It provides better protection in more hostile environments—so it can withstand sand and rain erosion.”
"Sanghera further describes the manufacturing process, so to speak, “You put the powder in , you press it under vacuum, squash this powder together—and if you can do that right, then you can get rid of all the entrapped air, and all of a sudden it comes out of there clear-looking.” When the sheet is fresh off the press, it will be ground and polished before being refined further into other uses like bulletproof glass. Should the cost come down in due time, then consumer applications will also benefit, including smartphones and watches."
