They are out to get you. They are only trying to trick you into consuming less caffeine, so that you will be less alert.
Must...fight...urge...to sleep...
Does this mean I'll have to work for another 700+ years before I can afford to retire?
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While this amorphous steel is quite an achievement (I do not mean to slight this work), amorphous metals have been around since at least the 60's. A commercial example of this is the amorphous metal golf club head , which has been on the market for a number of years.
No, amorphous metals are not transparent. So even if we could make amorphous aluminum, you could not see through it. If you want to see through aluminum, you must still combine it with with oxygen to form alumina (or sapphire).
10 years ago I missed the bandwagon on microtechnology.
Now I'm missing out on the nanotech money.
As of today, I am jumping the gun and writing proposals to study areas which will give insight into the upcoming picotech field. If things go well. I will be pulling in femptotech money by the end of the decade.
That was tried in the late 90's and failed. Remember when The Critic, The PJ's, Futurama, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Family Guy, Southpark, and Dilbert (on UPN) were on in prime-time slots?
Don't get me wrong, I love a good animated show and ceratinly miss Futurama and The Family Guy. I am eagerly awaiting the day the day that Duckman gets released on DVD. But the masses of TV veiwers will only tune into a select few prime-time cartoons
Yes, but for once the battery life on the iPod would be an advantage. Not to mention that carrying around an eMac at the gym wouldn't have the same "coolness factor" as an iPod, despite it's larger color display, wireless support, GarageBand, etc.
As mentioned in the article, these ultra-pure glasses are needed for industrial lasers. Impurities or contamination in a laser glass can absorb the laser energy, be ioned, and explode within the laser glass. Tradionally, large scale glass melting is performed in ceramic refractory lined tanks. The problem is that glass melts are highly corrosive and a significant amount (any amount is significant when dealing with high powered lasers) of contamination will occur.
For the laser glass blanks used for the National Ignition Facility NIF Website, U.S. taxpayers supplied platinum lined tanks to prevent refractory contamination in the glass blanks. However, even platinum is soluble in the phosphate based glasses used for these blanks. Platinum colloids would result in catastrophic failure of the glass once the lasers where powered up So, a great deal of research has been performed by the glass science community (thank you DOE) to learn how to alter the glass chemistry via composition or processing parameters in order to incorporate these tiny levels of platinum into the glass structure and render it harmless in the finished product.
If significant quantities of these types of glasses could be made using containerless levitation, the expense of platinum lined glass tanks and challenges of neutralizing what little platinum contaminates the glasses would be eliminated.
Come on! You've seen it done in the movies many times.
The person tied to the chair manages to free themselves by burning the rope with a lighter or by moving the chair closer to the conveniently lit fireplace, once the bad guys have left the room.
It is just that easy.
The only maglev train in the U.S. that I am aware of is a prototype at Old Dominion University. This project was started several years ago and has yet to be completed due to insufficient funding (or running way over budget).
ODU press release
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The record for the world's most powerful beer goggles has been broken.
They are out to get you. They are only trying to trick you into consuming less caffeine, so that you will be less alert. Must...fight...urge...to sleep...
Does this mean I'll have to work for another 700+ years before I can afford to retire?
While this amorphous steel is quite an achievement (I do not mean to slight this work), amorphous metals have been around since at least the 60's. A commercial example of this is the amorphous metal golf club head , which has been on the market for a number of years.
No, amorphous metals are not transparent. So even if we could make amorphous aluminum, you could not see through it. If you want to see through aluminum, you must still combine it with with oxygen to form alumina (or sapphire).
An R2 unit is the obvious solution.
10 years ago I missed the bandwagon on microtechnology.
Now I'm missing out on the nanotech money.
As of today, I am jumping the gun and writing proposals to study areas which will give insight into the upcoming picotech field. If things go well. I will be pulling in femptotech money by the end of the decade.
That was tried in the late 90's and failed. Remember when The Critic, The PJ's, Futurama, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Family Guy, Southpark, and Dilbert (on UPN) were on in prime-time slots?
Don't get me wrong, I love a good animated show and ceratinly miss Futurama and The Family Guy. I am eagerly awaiting the day the day that Duckman gets released on DVD. But the masses of TV veiwers will only tune into a select few prime-time cartoons
Yes, but for once the battery life on the iPod would be an advantage. Not to mention that carrying around an eMac at the gym wouldn't have the same "coolness factor" as an iPod, despite it's larger color display, wireless support, GarageBand, etc.
As mentioned in the article, these ultra-pure glasses are needed for industrial lasers. Impurities or contamination in a laser glass can absorb the laser energy, be ioned, and explode within the laser glass. Tradionally, large scale glass melting is performed in ceramic refractory lined tanks. The problem is that glass melts are highly corrosive and a significant amount (any amount is significant when dealing with high powered lasers) of contamination will occur.
For the laser glass blanks used for the National Ignition Facility NIF Website, U.S. taxpayers supplied platinum lined tanks to prevent refractory contamination in the glass blanks. However, even platinum is soluble in the phosphate based glasses used for these blanks. Platinum colloids would result in catastrophic failure of the glass once the lasers where powered up So, a great deal of research has been performed by the glass science community (thank you DOE) to learn how to alter the glass chemistry via composition or processing parameters in order to incorporate these tiny levels of platinum into the glass structure and render it harmless in the finished product.
If significant quantities of these types of glasses could be made using containerless levitation, the expense of platinum lined glass tanks and challenges of neutralizing what little platinum contaminates the glasses would be eliminated.
Come on! You've seen it done in the movies many times. The person tied to the chair manages to free themselves by burning the rope with a lighter or by moving the chair closer to the conveniently lit fireplace, once the bad guys have left the room. It is just that easy.
Oxidize it. Heat (torch) it in an oxygen containing environment and it will degrade into CO and CO2.
Transparent aluminum can be achieved by oxidizing the aluminum to alumina, as is the case with saphire.
I think I blinked.
The only maglev train in the U.S. that I am aware of is a prototype at Old Dominion University. This project was started several years ago and has yet to be completed due to insufficient funding (or running way over budget). ODU press release