Transparent Aluminum Is Here 625
Alien54 writes "Scientists in the US have developed a novel technique to make bulk quantities of glass from alumina for the first time. (link includes a picture of samples) Anatoly Rosenflanz and colleagues at 3M in Minnesota used a "flame-spray" technique to alloy alumina (aluminium oxide) with rare-earth metal oxides to produce strong glass with good optical properties. The method avoids many of the problems encountered in conventional glass forming and could, say the team, be extended to other oxides (see also: A Rosenflanz et al. 2004 Nature 430 761). Scotty would be pleased."
Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
woohho (Score:5, Funny)
Transparent aluminum foil (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
Transparent alumuinum is here... (Score:4, Funny)
Begin Star Trek comments in.... (Score:4, Funny)
in other news... (Score:2, Funny)
And the rest of the story,... is available on DVD!
Re:Future echoes (Score:5, Funny)
Yes but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Silly submitter (Score:2, Funny)
You mean like Seven of Nine?
Re:woohho (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Transparent alumuinum is here... (Score:3, Funny)
Well you have to take LDS first, than it might work...
Get a free iPod [freeipods.com]. Here is how it works [wired.com].
and Bones and Scotty can look for a whale tank (Score:3, Funny)
10 bucks to the first company.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll lay odds a burly guy with a dodgy scottish brogue was around their head office trying to use a mouse as a dictaphone not too long ago....
Regards
Luke
Re:Dammit, i wanted to RTFA (Score:2, Funny)
Capt. Kirk: Scotty...We need more usr req's!
McCoy: It's dead Jim.
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's not aluminum, it's alumina. (Score:5, Funny)
I mean, after the tiger-repelling rock, I thought i learned not to misunderestimate science!
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, a keyboard, how quaint.
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Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Transparent aluminum foil (Score:5, Funny)
More importantly, I can wear my improved tinfoil hat in public without getting weird looks.
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
(The amusing part about that statement is that the Russian language has no 'W' sound!)
yes, but... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Transparent aluminum foil (Score:5, Funny)
Like, duh!
Paranoid kook n00b
impeccable timing (Score:3, Funny)
Tin-foil hat (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Transparent alumuinum is here... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Submitter - Not Silly (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Future echoes (Score:4, Funny)
See, that's the kind of shit you learn reading Slashdot. I'm going to go shoot myself for being a massive fucking dork now.
purdy pieces! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
"A Windows Key. How quaint!"
A Windows Key? On a Mac?!?
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
No he wouldn't! (Score:3, Funny)
sorry, go ahead mod me down. I couldn't help it!
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
You mean 18! (or are you posting to Slashdot... from the future! (*GASP!*))
PowerBook (Score:5, Funny)
Somehow, I get the feeling that Apple is going to use this for the next gen of PowerBooks.
(It's a joke -- all the materials scientists don't need to correct me.)
-"Zow"
Re:Future echoes (Score:5, Funny)
I like your list. But, what about the things we haven't invented yet?
Of course, I'm probably forgetting lots of stuff. Anyone have further things I've missed??
I sence a great disterbence in the force.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Future echoes (Score:5, Funny)
Never been to a supermarket I presume?
Re:Future echoes (Score:3, Funny)
I hate to think what interstellar roaming charges are like though
"Making large sheets of ruby and sapphires" (Score:5, Funny)
I'd love a pair of sapphire-lensed sunglasses.
Should we leave all of the Star Trek jokes... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:You are such a geek... (Score:3, Funny)
Plexicorp
I wanna cookie now!
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
7) Jokes usually need a grain of truth or a plausible premise in order to be funny.
e.g. "3 girls jumped off a building. Which one hits last? The one who stopped to ask for directions!"
That's not funny because it's a ridiculous situation with no roots in reality. On the other hand,
"A Blonde, a Brunette, and a Red Head all jump off a building. Which one hits last? The Blond! She had to stop and ask for directions!"
That is funny because the premise for the joke is a commonly held belief that blonds are dumb. Of course, such suppositions are often flawed and allow for an equally amusing joke that makes the exact counter point:
"So a Blond walks into a bank and asks for a two week loan of $10,000. Dubious of the Blond's motives, the bank manager asks for collateral. The Blond replies that she could always put her Mercedes up as collateral, since it was worth far more than her loan. The bank manager agrees, and drives her car into the bank garage after loaning her the money.
"In two weeks the Blonde returns with the $10,000, plus the $5.00 interest on the loan. As the manager returns the keys to her car, he asks, 'I did some checking while you were away. It seems you're loaded with money! Why did you need a loan for two weeks?' To which the Blonde replies, 'Where else in New York can I park my car for two weeks and only pay $5.00!'"
Shouldn't we be doing something... constructive? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Transparent aluminum foil (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sounds like a good plan for optical disks (Score:4, Funny)
I could just imagine the crime scene:
Police Officer: Can you describe the person who attempted to raid the bank?
Witness #1: Yes, he was covered in head to toe with CD's glued to his clothes.
Police Officer: Can you give me any further details?
Witness #1: I think the CD's had words on them "AOL trial account - 14 days free service".
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:3, Funny)
Never understood that. (Score:5, Funny)
Presumably he had a run of bad tea-machine experiences like this:
"Tea, Earl Grey." <sip> "Awww fuck my old boots, it's half-cold and stewed you fucker"
Time-line (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Submitter - Not Silly (Score:2, Funny)
I tend to agree: I prefer to say that the cars I had in high school were built largely out of "Brown Steel".
Re:Transparent aluminum foil (Score:4, Funny)
Oh yeah? Well only real tin effectively blocks the barquathian mind-control rays from the planet Booftar, that they're co-developed with the CIA and Nabisco to control the populace.
This is largely because it is frequently used in food storage and preparation, and tin is poisonous, so isn't a good choice.
And you believe that?! Looks like they've already gotten to you, bub.
That's great, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Is there a Klingon ship? (Score:1, Funny)
Thank you.
Oh, and don't forget the 'Beam Me Up' sign! It could help!
Re:Never understood that. (Score:5, Funny)
Oh man, what I wouldn't give to actually hear Jonathan Stewert proclaim that!
MAKE IT SO BITCH!
Re:That's great, but... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
You would think with all that technology, and thousands of terrabytes of hard drive space that the retarded ass computer would remember Picards drink. He always gets his Earl Gray hot!. If I was him I would say "Give me my damn tea you stupid excuse for a computer. Hell even Windows remembers my preferences!"
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:3, Funny)
If you are sending this from the future please send me the specs on how to send messages back in time. I have some interesting algorhitms I want to test.
Yes, I too have some questions regarding probability theory that I wish to test.
I'm surprised... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Never understood that. (Score:5, Funny)
Come on, what kind of geek are you?
Re:Never understood that. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:2, Funny)
"Beam me up, Scotty, there isn't any intelligent life down here."
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Never understood that. (Score:2, Funny)
And so, after that, all replicators were programmed to only serve warm tea, unless the user specifically asked for "hot".
What I love about Slashdot..... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Future echoes (Score:3, Funny)
Computer terminals that, when shot at, give off a massive electrical discharge, killing the operator.
The terminal, however, continues to function. Apparently the secret is to use the operator as the electrical ground for the system.
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:5, Funny)
1. Recieve message from future self.
2. ???
3. Profit!
4. Send message to past self.
*I* sense a great disturbance in... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:2, Funny)
Cracks me up everytime I think about it.
Re:Never understood that. (Score:5, Funny)
transparent al (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:3, Funny)
The core of the problem is that French nearly supplanted the entire Anglo-Saxon language at some point. Thus they tried to get us to adopt their idiosyncrasies rather than taking five minutes to rewrite "rendezvous" as "rondevoo". Or even better, break the word down into Latin roots and rebuild it as an English word. But noooo, it's easier to saddle the unsuspecting English with words like "attache" instead of allowing them to simply use "attachment".
Scotty missed a great oppertunity. (Score:2, Funny)
message from future; patent!; profit!; ... (Score:2, Funny)
2. Patent Everything!
3. Profit!
4. Send message to past self.
You see, it's really not that hard to get rich.
Re:Scotty would be pleased. (Score:2, Funny)
1. Post tales of the future back in time to Slashdot in the form of 'predictions'.
2. ???
3. Prophet!
Re:Future echoes (Score:3, Funny)
Scotty: What?