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So, transparent aluminum is a thing.


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Super cool. I'm pissed off since it's been around since the 80's and I've never heard of it before. The product is not just aluminum, but a compound of aluminum, oxygen, and nitrogen of equal parts. It is very strong like bullet proof glass but is much more expensive which has limited its usage to date. Its toughness has to come from the aluminum since the other two elements are gases at ambient temperatures. In the link below they talk about using it for computer and cell phone screens, a material that would break the sidewalk before the screen breaks. If this material becomes widely used the price will come down. How about space craft windows? It would seem like its future will have a very wide range of applications. Cool!

 

https://hackaday.com/2018/04/03/whats-the-deal-with-transparent-aluminum/

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Warp drive is predicted in the year 2063.

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11 hours ago, mymistake said:

Warp drive is predicted in the year 2063.

 

Hopefully not predicted by another catholic priest like the Big Bang model. If so this "relatively-soon" prediction might have as much merit as the second coming of Christ.

 

But if this prediction has any merit at all then maybe the space craft's windows, camera covers, etc., might by made of transparent aluminum :)

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11 hours ago, Ann said:

Transporters next!....oh please let it be transporters...

 

Yup, I think all of us spaceheads would love to see transporters come someday but I think their realization would be even more fantastic (coming from the word fantacy) than warp drive.

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1 hour ago, pantheory said:

 

Hopefully not predicted by another catholic priest like the Big Bang model. If so this "relatively-soon" prediction might have as much merit as the second coming of Christ.

 

But if this prediction has any merit at all then maybe the space craft's windows, camera covers, etc., might by made of transparent aluminum :)

 

Transparent aluminum was predicted to be invented in the late 20th century by the film Star Trek IV.  And Star Trek First Contact predicted warp drive in the mid 21st century.  Of course these predictions were fictional and not expected to be taken seriously.  Never the less, some fiction regarding the future does get it right from time to time - for example the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, the Back To The Future franchise and the film Idiocracy.

 

 

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7 hours ago, mymistake said:

 

Transparent aluminum was predicted to be invented in the late 20th century by the film Star Trek IV.  And Star Trek First Contact predicted warp drive in the mid 21st century.  Of course these predictions were fictional and not expected to be taken seriously.  Never the less, some fiction regarding the future does get it right from time to time - for example the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey, the Back To The Future franchise and the film Idiocracy.

 

 

 

Yes, some science fiction gets it close to right sometimes.  "2001" was a great, realistic movie, but its depictions of future space travel and craft didn't present a different picture than what was expected at the time IMO. "Back to the Future" was a lot of fun and had some predictions that came true, but seemed reasonable to me at the time, not the hover-board one, though.  I didn't see the movie "Idiocracy," but from what I have read of it, it only seems to have had a hint of validity IMO. Although there is a little more anti-science today amongst a few, I don't think commercialism cuts any more mustard  now than it ever did.  What do you think?                                                                                                    

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3 hours ago, pantheory said:

 

Yes, some science fiction gets it close to right sometimes.  "2001" was a great, realistic movie, but its depictions of future space travel and craft didn't present a different picture than what was expected at the time IMO. 

 

 

I see that I was too vague.  The predictions that came true from 2001 were not space stations, maned missions to Jupiter or murdering robots but rather the economic inflation.  I watched the movie back in 2001 and every time the characters made a purchase it was very close to the market rate.  That was very impressive . . . probably impressive regarding the people who handled the US economy and kept inflation at such a steady rate.

 

3 hours ago, pantheory said:

"Back to the Future" was a lot of fun and had some predictions that came true, but seemed reasonable to me at the time, not the hover-board one, though.

 

Yeah again, not the flying cars or hover-boards or the controlling the weather.   But they did predict that Hollywood would be recycling old ideas with endless sequels.  Plus they gave us a scary look at our political future.

 

 

Fictional predictions are a matter of luck, like Star Trek IV suggesting that Transparent aluminum might be invented in the late 20th century.  I wasn't asking anybody to take them seriously.  Just having fun with it.

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4 hours ago, Ann said:

I remember when I got my first cell phone. It was a flip phone and I loved it because I could play pretend Star Trek communicator.....Even though the cell phones now are like little computers, I still miss the flip phone. Hanging up was fun.

 

I sometimes have to force myself to make the time to learn how to use more of the apps available on my cell, at least the ones that have a practical application other than social media and games.

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6 hours ago, Ann said:

I remember when I got my first cell phone. It was a flip phone and I loved it because I could play pretend Star Trek communicator.....Even though the cell phones now are like little computers, I still miss the flip phone. Hanging up was fun.

 

 

I miss the flip phones too.  I never had one pocket dial anybody.  But the Star Trek style was the best part.

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