Star Trek Prophecy fulfilled?

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Star Trek Prophecy fulfilled?

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Trekkers be proud! Scientists produce transparent aluminum!

http://www.physorg.com/news167925273.html
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You'll probably find that we're missing a few whales too.
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It's all rubbish. If it's transparent, it's not a metal any more. If it's not a metal any more, who cares if it's transparent? <shakes trembling fist at Fate>
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
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It was only transparent for 40 femtoseconds. :roll: What good is that?
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They're still working the bugs out. Dr. Nichols has only been working on it for about 25 years.
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It's only transparent to X-rays too. :rage:
When you can do nothing what can you do?
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Where's my flying car? :rage:
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River wrote:It's only transparent to X-rays too. :rage:
It's a start...
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Hey, I'm transparent to X-rays. :x

Pretty much.

I'm with Wampus. Though I'd settle for a personal jetpack.
“There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
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Touchable Holography


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All of my nieces and nephews at my godson/nephew Nicholas's Medical School graduation. Now a neurosurgical resident at University of Arizona, Tucson.
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