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Transparent Concrete
rakerman writes: "The Economist reports in How to see through walls that development is underway on translucent concrete, with hopes of eventually developing transparent concrete. Can transparent aluminium be far behind?"
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Won't translucent structures lead to an increase rate of smack death amongst bird populations?
They're called windows, and they're usually made of a neat transparent material called glass... ;-)
Seriously, though, any slurry-based material like concrete is most likely to be opaque because microscopic structures tend to scatter light. You only need to pour a glass of milk to see this in action.
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would be to legislate that all new residential and commercial dwellings be built from transparent concrete.
Anyone refusing to demolish their existing house would be added to a database of 'potential conspirators'.
This would be quite consistent with recent 'anti-terrorist' surveillance legislation.
Also, the boom in building would boost the flagging economy.
Imagine whole neighbourhoods of people living in complete exposure, proving they're real honest patriotic Americans.
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I wouldn't want to live in a transparent house. Think of the lack of privacy. People'd be able to see when I was in the bedroom, when I was in the bathroom... They'd be able to see all my movements.
with transparent concrete shoes, of course.. The divers will keep trying to lift the body out of the water and not be able to figure out what's holding it down, since they can't see the concrete! :)
If you lived in a transparent concrete house would you still have to refrain from stone throwing?
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
First we had clear Pespi.
Then we had clear deodorant.
Saturday Night introduced us to clear gravvy.
Like clear concrete was that far behind?
Architect "...are the stairs, and this is where the wi..."
Programmer "NO! NO! I will not have windows installed!"
A pizza of radius z and thickness a has a volume of pi z z a
I dunno. I find it invaluable for transporting live whales in my time-travelling starship, complete with enough water to for them to move around in.
I could use steel or something, but, darn, I like to press my nose up to their enclosure during the journey.
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But then again, "Glass Slippers" sounds so much better than "Concrete Overshoes".
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On the upside, if anyone tries it, my curiosity as to what such a corpse looks like after a few years will no doubt be satisfied.
coarse aggregate - dried fruit
fine aggregate - flour
binding agent - eggs.
It proved so popular, it's got its own name - cake!
Let's face it, Marie Antoinette would've looked a bit of a dork saying "let them eat edible concrete."
Are you calling Star Trek IV a thin film?
I thought it was quite profound. Save the whales and all that...
That man tried to kill mah Daddy
Buildings glowing from within? This is terrible for astronomers... the added light pollution would further ruin the viewing conditions for many great observatories.
Maybe that wouldn't be so bad. I say, the sooner we got astronomers off the surface and up to the far side of the moon, where they belong, the better.
That's going to be the next headline. They'll design something like the Jacob Javits Center, and then we'll see transparent floors, and next thing you know, all the execs get sued for sexual harrasment because their secretaries all had offices on the floor above them, not next to them. And for some reason they had to wear skirts...go figure.
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The reason you will never see transparent aluminum is not because of a lack of crystalline structure...
The real reason you will never see transparent aluminum is because it is, well, transparent.
But this is not a recipe for concrete only - also for other materials.
Yes, it is also a recipe for meatballs.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
It's the year 2000 and I was promised flying cars!!!
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