Military: New Aluminum Windows Stop .50-Caliber Bullet

LiveScience.com ^ | October 18th, 2005

[supercat]

The substance itself is miles ahead of glass.

Is that metaphor ever used with units other than miles or light years?

[notfornothing]

Hmmmm......now that you mention it, I really can't think of any. Would "leaps and bounds" count?? :P

[Lazamataz]

Yes it has. However, the movie was set in the mid90's. Dit it reallu take 10 years to bring it to market?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

"So instead of people who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones it'll have to turn into people who live in transparent aluminum houses shouldn't recycle."

Now it's people who live in transparent aluminum houses should worry about 20 mm and larger rounds.

[HiTech RedNeck]

What's more, if it's that durable, it could be recycled from older vehicles to newer ones.

I wonder how hard this stuff is to cut.

[CzarNicky]

just add two humpback whales and a klingon bird of prey!!!

Don't forget the water.

[MarkL]

Transparent aluminum??? Didn't Scotty talk about that on Star Trek iv The Voyage Home?

I truely hope that somebody told Jimmy Doohan this before he died. I have no doubt that he would have been thrilled by this.

Mark

[ASOC]

LOL - I stand corrected, other than the his is still dead part, 'cause he is - dead.

From all that I have read, he was genuinely a nice guy and quite the family man (the second time around). And a WWII vet to boot.

May he rest in peace - and his ashes orbit for all time.

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I am amazed but I am sixty-seven years old and have managed to never see a single episode or movie about Star Trek.

You have my sincerest sympathies. To have gone so long deprived of the wonders of Star Trek...

The Wrath of Khan, is my favorite. With such dialoge as..."He tasks me. He tasks me, and I shall have him. I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia...and 'round the Antares Maelstrom...and 'round perditions flames...before I give him up."

Now, that is a man who holds a grudge.

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Happiness is a warm belt fed weapon.

I'm sure you must be right. :-)

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Don't you know he would have been thrilled to hear about that. Science-fiction becoming a reality.

[Centurion2000]

bump ... transparent aluminum.

I guess the guys that wrote ST:IV science fiction got a good chuckle out of this :)

[BJClinton]

Is that metaphor ever used with units other than miles or light years?

Sure: Wondows ME was millimeters ahead of Win98...hmm, it doesn't have the same panache.

[marajade]

ping

[Uncle Vlad]

Should a man who uses the term 'light-year' to describe a unit of time be in charge of research?

Of course he should. He's the captain of the Millennium Falcon--that's the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Should a man who uses the term 'light-year' to describe a unit of time be in charge of research?<<<

Perhaps he meant light-year in the sense it is a measure of distance; as in, "aluminium oxyinitrite is a real fur piece ahead of glass".

I think he's probably bright enough to do his job.

[Fred Hayek]

Developed by someone passing through by the name of Montgomery Scott? Of the University of Edinborough?

[CommandoFrank]

Developed by someone passing through by the name of Montgomery Scott? Of the University of Edinborough?

Nope, it was reverse engineered out at Area 51...

[Termite_Commander]

You, my friend, have revived this article. Congratulations.