Transparent Aluminum

I just learned this is a thing. Apparently it is called Aluminium oxynitride and is used for bulletproof windows. It isn't straight aluminum bit instead some kind of ceramic composite.

I thought it was pretty neat.

Sounds like april fools material.

Hmmm....

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Transparent_aluminum

Are there whales on the other side of the aluminum?

Admiral! There be whales here!

Scotty picks up mouse:

"Ahem - computer!"

Hello, computer.

He did a little too much LDS.

JoeyM wrote: He did a little too much LDS.

So it's a Mormon conspiracy?

I love this forum

double dumbass on you!

and they didn't use transparent aluminum in the movie... it was just large panes of glass that they got in trade for the formula for transparent aluminum that Scotty typed into the computer in about 100 keystrokes..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnUszxx2pYc Turns out its REALLLLLLLLLLY bulletproof.

Ransom wrote:

JoeyM wrote: He did a little too much LDS.

So it's a Mormon conspiracy?

Well, Kirk must have thought so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgHxFNFWlZc

I still lol'd at sending the russian to find "Nuclear Wessles" during the cold war......and I just watched this the other night too. I wish they would put the first movie and 5/6 on netflix.

In reply to JoeyM:

Ha!

Oh crud; I'm going to have to actually watch that at some point, aren't I?

yamaha wrote: I still lol'd at sending the russian to find "Nuclear Wessles" during the cold war......and I just watched this the other night too. I wish they would put the first movie and 5/6 on netflix.

I later found out that the people he was asking weren't actors - they just filmed Walter Koenig in costume walking up to random passers-by on the street and trying to ask for directions to the "nuclear wessels".

Buwahhahahahahaha

That's the ticket laddie....

Ransom wrote: In reply to JoeyM: Ha! Oh crud; I'm going to have to actually watch that at some point, aren't I?

You'll probably appreciate it; it is my favorite trek movie. OTOH, I may be a bit biased......in a former life I did marine mammal research.

"Remember where we parked."

Anybody remember that before leaving Vulcan, they named their bird of prey the "Bounty"?

that was by far the worst Trek movie.. but it has a sort of sentimental charm to it now that i'm older..

Hello, computer...

novaderrik wrote: that was by far the worst Trek movie.. but it has a sort of sentimental charm to it now that i'm older..

sorry... 5 was worse

5 was an awesome episode of the tv show, it was not a great ST movie. Searching for Whales is goofy but still a pretty good flick.

My two cents.