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Space Age Metal: New Titanium Alloys Near 'Magic' Strength Threshold
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| 22 April 2003
| Robert Roy Britt
Posted on 10/01/2005 6:10:57 PM PDT by strategofr
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To: Old Student
Bolt-on weights would be easily removable, so maybe you could take them off, tip the car up on it's side, and work on it that way? Why not water? Water in special compartments?
To: this_ol_patriot
I believe it's still true that the Moller Skycar has never flown.
For the last 5 years or so that first flight was only months away.
Moller will however sell you their prototype for only $3.5 million.
PS. I did a few rough calculations: 1000Hp, 350 mph, .5 pounds/hp hr. Figure 83 gallons per hour, about 4mpg.
It doesn't matter, it will never fly.
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posted on
10/02/2005 1:07:46 AM PDT
by
John Jamieson
(Hybrids are a highway around CAFE, that's all they're good for.)
To: Itzlzha
Isn't that just sapphire?
Sapphire is Al2O3, as is Alumina.
To: strategofr
Ah, so. Someone has finally figured out what the gray's are using to build their flying saucers.
To: martin_fierro
I'm placing my order for a # 2 General Product's hull today !
125
posted on
10/02/2005 4:40:45 AM PDT
by
grjr21
To: RightWhale
"Titanium would be excellent in SUVs. Strong, light, and capable of maintaining structural integrity at Mach 2+."
- I remember when the US Air Force was building it's Mach 2+ fighter jets out of titanium at enormous cost because they had been sold on the story that such a super fighter needed a lightweight alternative to aluminum. When the Soviet Union collapsed they had a chance to get their hands on the latest Russian fighter which could outperform it's U.S. counterpart and lo and behold, it was made out cheap, plain old aluminum. Somebody in the US titanium mining/production business had been laughing all the way to the bank for years at the taxpayers expense.
To: TWohlford
And motorists... among them some Freepers... will still flip us the bird for having the gall to ride on THEIR roads.
I dont mind sharing the road with polite bicyclists but when in a 35, 45 or even 55 mph speed zone and two or more bicyclists are riding side by side holding up traffic and causing a hazard I tend to get a bit touchy about being forced to drive at 10 or 15 mph. 2nd gear is really hard on gas mileage.
127
posted on
10/02/2005 5:17:28 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: The Red Zone
I wouldn't want to ride it across a bridge.
128
posted on
10/02/2005 5:19:46 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: 11B40
"Rockwell hardness scale rating."
- I hear they've had to revise the Rockwell Scale upwards after measuring the hardness of Slick's erection while being introduced to certain Hollywood starlets.
Japanese scientists have been studying it's secret in the hopes of duplicating it's ultra super titanium like properties.
There is no truth to the rumor that the new material has been tentatively named "dorktanium" in honor of it's original inspirer.
To: tortoise
AH! But if you drink about 20 cases of diet soda a day (cant remember the exact figure) every day, you might get cancer!
130
posted on
10/02/2005 5:29:49 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Squantos
Accidental discoveries like LSD as a better aspirin?
131
posted on
10/02/2005 5:30:57 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: Old Student
MSGT,
You may not be an engineer, but you have a better knack for it than most engineers I've worked with.
I think you're exactly right. Nice ideas.
132
posted on
10/02/2005 5:47:34 AM PDT
by
ryan71
(Speak softly and carry a BIG STICK)
To: Squantos
VX , I assume you mean the nerve gas, is an organo-phosphate.
133
posted on
10/02/2005 5:58:38 AM PDT
by
reg45
To: strategofr
Saito, of the Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories Does that mean Toyota will be 'strongest built cars on the road'?
134
posted on
10/02/2005 6:12:12 AM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(~~~A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!~~~)
To: Squantos
Great, now you can get rid of your 329, 'cause the new version will only be 5 ounces!
135
posted on
10/02/2005 6:12:57 AM PDT
by
Tijeras_Slim
(Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
To: Republic
Or be blown over byy a wind gust
To: TWohlford
The bike paths here are used by cyclists... but they go nowhere, end abruptly in unsafe spots, are strewn with debris and have trees and mailboxes hanging into traffic. Fer sakes.I also ride a bike a lot. For every jerk in a car, I have found about 100 jerks on bikes. They are even jerks to other bicyclists. The bike paths I am referring to are separate from the road about 40 ft into a park. They run parallel to the road and go the same place the road does. Still we get a large number of in your face I am going to ride my bike on the road even if it kills both of us folks all the time. Me, I ride my bike on the bike path. It is a whole lot safer and more pleasant.
My first intro to the jerk on a bicycle mentality was in Berkeley, which I think still has the highest concentration. Riding a bicycle the wrong way down the middle of a 5 lane one-way street is to me the height of arrogance. The road running the other direction was one block over.
To: RebelTex
"lighter planes and rockets... stronger lighter armor plating"
Those seem like the most likely to have a big impact. In addition, perhaps troops could wear metal flack jackets.
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posted on
10/02/2005 8:49:38 AM PDT
by
strategofr
(What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
To: Old Student
"Smart@ss that I was (and probably still am, come to think of it) I said "oh, yeah?""
LOL!
"Still haven't made it thorough Trig, though."
That's the one I hated the most. I took 1st year calculus 3 times---once in high school and twice in college. That was the end of my math quest.
I did have one amazing experience with math, though. As a college freshman, I had to interview an adviser to try to get into "honors calculus." By chance, the person I was interviewing was the teacher of "super honors calculus". This consists of one freshman class (about 30 students)out of all the freshman in the University of Michigan.
This guy concluded that I was smart (which was true) and also concluded that I could do math at a very high level (which turned out not to be true). So, I spent the first half of the first semester of my freshman year trying to solve problems such as: Prove that 1 + 1 = 2. After half a semester, I had failed to solve a single homework problem. I dropped the course.
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posted on
10/02/2005 8:58:31 AM PDT
by
strategofr
(What did happen to those 293 boxes of secret FBI files (esp on Senators) Hillary stole?)
To: strategofr
I made the mistake of trying to take College Algebra and Trig at the same time. I got a B in Algebra, (after 15 semester hours of remedial math classes) but at the 10-week point, I was finally getting the stuff from the first 5 weeks of the trig class. I got a 34% on the final exam, and that was one of my higher grades...
I'll take trig again, some day, but not when I'm taking ANYTHING else.
140
posted on
10/02/2005 9:25:16 AM PDT
by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
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