For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
"This you can trust."
Posted on 10/01/2010 3:11:46 PM PDT by neverdem
Good stuff!
I’ve been investing in gold/silver/guns and bullets.
Also stocking up on cash.
Be Ever Vigilant!
Maybe that could work for an Aluminum framed firearm.
At the atomic scale, the great thing about iron is the high number of valence connection points, which allow for huge potential for bonding with other elements. it is also why it rusts, so if other elements could be bonded to iron atoms to shut the oxygen docking points, iron would also be ‘ageless’, so to speak. If our current understanding of Physics doesn’t mature to cancel temporal variables, we’re gonna need something that doesn’t decay over eons as it whizzes through the universe on the way to other star systems.
For no one - no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts.
"This you can trust."
“[Oil] won’t go down.”
Not right away. It takes a long time to develop new cars.
I’m no authority on oil, but as I understand it, the byproducts are plentiful as it is, and we primarily refine oil for gas, right?
I was wondering that myself. Is aluminum is flexible [obviously]. I guess that must have intrigued someone to test that flexibility out. Amazing how simple ideas cause such radical game-changers!
iron decays due to oxygen. there’s no oxygen in space. The problem with iron is it’s too heavy.
Auto exhaust pipes use a coating of aluminum on steel to inhibit rust. chain link fences and sheet metal use a coating of zinc to inhibit rust. Firearms use a coating of black oxide(rust bluing) to inhibit rust. Auto bumpers traditionally used a coating of nickel(chrome) to inhibit rust. There are two kinds of iron oxide. black and red. black is slightly like aluminum oxide in that it is partially impervious to air and water and prevents further oxidation...somewhat. It doesn’t work as good as aluminum oxide.
If I was to try to develop a coating on iron to prevent oxidation, I think I would look for something that bonds to black iron oxide and then mix it with iron so that it would be a self healing skin.
I wonder if similar techniques could be used to increase the strength of other metals.
LOL
Yes but I suspect that a little heat will alter the molecules and reduce the strength.
It's reading these blasted Klingon control labels that's the challenge.
Hooray for this iCorder app:
New cars that do what?
You've gotta love market capitalism and the profit motive!
I’m waiting for plastisteel before I hand build my space craft.
The hyper-drive is ready, although the oil industry is suppressing it along with my 1 million MPG fuel additive.
Stronger bodies that weigh less.
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