[PIF]

What exactly is “mysterious” about nitinol?
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Here’s the mysterious stuff that only aliens can make:

Nickel titanium, also known as Nitinol, is a metal alloy of nickel and titanium, where the two elements are present in roughly equal atomic percentages. Different alloys are named according to the weight percentage of nickel, e.g. Nitinol 55 and Nitinol 60. It exhibits the shape memory effect and superelasticity at different temperatures.

Discovered during research at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1959. The Navy was in on it obviously ...

[cgbg]

Discovered during research at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1959

after they found it on a captured alien spacecraft....

just kidding... :-)

[Cold Heart]

Nitinol was described in Roswell NM in 1947

[oldvirginian]

“Discovered during research at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1959.”

Recovered from the Roswell crash site in 1947 it took 12 years to reverse engineer it.

Just kidding?
Not kidding?
Who knows.
Who cares.
You say I have mental issues?
Thats between me and my mind.