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2011-03-24 Science & Technology

Arizona Company Set to Unveil Revolutionary Ballistic Helmet

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Sounds so good, how much?

Posted by Snetch B. Hayes3906 2011-03-24 00:35|| 2011-03-24 00:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Yokay, I'll say it, "BOURQUE" OR "BORG" [Star Trek series] - "PENETRATION IS FUTILE, IT WILL BE ASSIMILATED"???

versies

* CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > US WILL CUT OUT MORE NUKES THAN TREATY [Treaty-required] WID RUSSIA, REPUBLICANS GOING BERSERK! | US REVIEWING NUCLEAR ARSENAL WID EYES TO NEW CUTS.

CMF POSTER - indic that Russia is willing to cut its Strategic Nukes, BUT NOT ITS TACNUKES.

Lest we fergit, 1980's-2005 MSM-NET PERTS > REAGAN-GORBACHEV GLASNOST + PERESTROIKA, FALL OF BERLIN WALL + USSR = MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR COMMUNIST ARMIES.

You know, RADICAL ISLAM [2012 or post-2012 = Nuclear?].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-03-24 00:48|| 2011-03-24 00:48|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe this alloy can be used in place of the aluminum in the new LCS ship whose hull already cracked. /sarc

Posted by Oscar Spineck3066 2011-03-24 01:10|| 2011-03-24 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 You mean the floating purple heart box?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-03-24 01:52|| 2011-03-24 01:52|| Front Page Top

#5 unique property of being an excellent conductor of electricity, but an insulator for heat....

All metals are good heat conductors having free electron gas. I have my doubts about this statement.

Posted by Hupailing Ebbuns (The Same) 2011-03-24 03:42|| 2011-03-24 03:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Price is 0.30, I put in an order for 100 at .35c
we shall see.
May sell before noon

Posted by Redneck Jim 2011-03-24 04:59|| 2011-03-24 04:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Checked out the web site. They are looking for 2 mil in capital to fund themselves. Here's the product listing from their web site for their sales division href="http://jbitusa.take2pro.net/#">

Posted by Gmanzato 2011-03-24 10:38|| 2011-03-24 10:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Kryon, huh? Was Rearden Metal already trademarked or something...?

Posted by ansky26 2011-03-24 10:44|| 2011-03-24 10:44|| Front Page Top

#9 Hupailing Ebbuns (The Same): Metallic aluminum is highly reactive with oxygen, but it rapidly develops a very thin, protective layer of aluminum oxide, chemically similar to sapphire, which is extremely hard and protects it from further oxidation.

My guess is that they are using some coating on their aluminum that is chemically similar to aluminum oxide and takes its place, is as hard or harder than aluminum oxide, and is also insulating to heat, but conductive to electricity.

N.B.: Diamond is just the opposite, as it is insulating to electricity, but impressively conductive to heat. For this reason, tiny particles of diamond are spray on some silicon chips before they are stacked, so the chips do not overheat, but also do not ground each other.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-24 12:56|| 2011-03-24 12:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds cool, but can you see through it?

Posted by gorb 2011-03-24 13:40|| 2011-03-24 13:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Sounds cool, but can you see through it?

You're thinking of Arenak?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-03-24 17:26|| 2011-03-24 17:26|| Front Page Top

#12 I've been looking for more info on this company for a while. I had gotten the impression earlier that they were being bought out by another company that also had a lot of processing technology they apparently needed, but that appears to have fallen through.

I wish I knew more about the alloy, but I don't.

If it's patent-protected, I imagine they wouldn't need to be so secretive about it.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2011-03-24 17:34|| 2011-03-24 17:34|| Front Page Top

#13 With the name, it would be cool to be able to see ~around~ it.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-03-24 17:57|| 2011-03-24 17:57|| Front Page Top

#14 They invented transparent aluminum in 2009. Old news.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-24 19:08|| 2011-03-24 19:08|| Front Page Top

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