http://science.slashdot.org/science/04/08/23/1141217.shtml?tid=14

mwahahhahaa
(star trek 4 is *now* hehe)

(and before anyone bashes me for "misspelling" the word commonly known as "aluminum" please check a dictionary. aluminium is correct =P)

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

pretty cool
but will it conduct electricity?

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What happens when you cast heal on the undead?

Sweet

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I once loved aluminium, and now I love you.

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i would assume so, Genki... i mean, it is a metal, after all.

it's time to watch star trek 4 again...

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

This is actually kind of funny because we joke around at work that many of the "design challenges" we face could be fixed if we just had transparent aluminum.



You should also check that Britsh-English dictionary you're using for the word gullible, as you won't find it in their either. Aluminum is the correct spelling in the US. Aluminium is the correct spelling in the UK.

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I thought the Germans had already made transparent aluminum last year...

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Roach - Gyring and gimbling in the wabe...
0 of 14.

[This message has been edited by Roach (edited August 23, 2004).]

Yah, well, I invented transparent silicon!

Okay, maybe I didn't invent it... but I use it all the time.

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"The interesting thing about video games is the way you can take about 50 shotgun blasts to the head and be instantly healed by a little white box with a cross on it."

Pfft, I'm still waiting for them to make one-way transparent ceramic.

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Transparent elemental silicon?


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It's not aluminum, it's alumina, which is aluminum oxide. And combined with other metal oxides. Yeah, it's a ceramic, not a metal.

Good news is could be casted into any form and aluminum oxide happens to be one of the hardest materials known. A good three times stronger than hardened steel too.

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Bassoon, n. A brazen instrument into which a fool blows out his brains.

[This message has been edited by Emon (edited August 23, 2004).]

Should be some damn hard glass then.



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