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Molten metal solidifies into a new kind of glass
07-30-2013
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Posted on 07/30/2013 6:47:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
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Can Transparent Aluminum be far behind?......
To: Red Badger
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posted on
07/30/2013 6:51:34 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Red Badger
To: BipolarBob
“Admiral! There be whales here!”
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posted on
07/30/2013 6:56:13 AM PDT
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Erik Latranyi
(When religions have to beg the gov't for a waiver, we are already under socialism.)
To: Red Badger
He took a lot of LDS when he went to Berkeley.
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posted on
07/30/2013 6:58:07 AM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
To: thackney
Currently, practically all smart phones are made with Gorilla Glass by Corning......
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:01:23 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
He took a lot of Mormons? To where, exactly?......
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:02:16 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: GrandJediMasterYoda
He took a lot of LDS when he went to Berkeley. I didn't know Berkley accepted religious folk.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:13:27 AM PDT
by
Tenacious 1
(If the government told us to expect rain, I'd schedule an outdoor wedding.)
To: Red Badger
And some suspect that is not going to be the case in the relatively near future.
This sapphire smartphone screen is strong, strong, strong
http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57571618-78/this-sapphire-smartphone-screen-is-strong-strong-strong/
February 28, 2013
The smartphone screen on the iPhone above may look like it’s made of glass, but it isn’t. It’s made of sapphire....
n the case of the demo, a thin sheet of sapphire has been glued over a regular iPhone 5’s chemically hardened Gorilla Glass 2 screen with some transparent adhesive — it’s completely clear. To my eye, the sapphire overlay is indistinguishable from a pane of glass. That is, until I’ve spent a few minutes deliberately trying to scratch and smash it with a hunk of craggy concrete.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:15:02 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: BipolarBob
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:15:24 AM PDT
by
SpinnerWebb
(In 2012 you will awaken from your HOPEnosis and have no recollection of this... "Constitution")
To: Red Badger
“Gracie is pregnant.” ... “It is illogical to ...”
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:16:26 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
To: Red Badger
More exotically, there are mathematically permissible arrangements of points in three dimensions that are isotropic with neither periodicity nor quasiperiodicity. Does this feel like faster - much faster - computers?
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:18:22 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(Sob stories make bad law...)
To: Red Badger
Which you can still unfortunately break. And because it is annealed, once it gets a small crack or flake, it rapidly disintegrates just like the crust on an apple turnover. Even if it doesn't crumble altogether, a broken area of virtually any size renders the phone useless.
A sapphire phone would be a good thing for me.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:20:16 AM PDT
by
jboot
(It can happen here because it IS happening here.)
To: thackney
I don’t have a smart phone, or even a dumb one for that matter, but I did have a 9” tablet. The a neighbor sat on it in my living room chair. It busted in a million pieces.........
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:30:33 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: MHGinTN
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:31:47 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: GOPJ
What it means is that, at some point, you will have a transparent metal......
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:34:12 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Want to be surprised? Google your own name......Want to have fun? Google your friend's names........)
To: Red Badger
...and that when the Terminator arrives he’ll have a glass jaw (useful info)
To: Tenacious 1; Red Badger
He took a lot of LDS when he went to Berkeley. I didn't know Berkley accepted religious folk.
In case you truly don't get the reference, Captain Kirk erroneously explains Mr. Spock's weirdness by explaining that he took too many drugs (LDS, when he meant to say LSD).
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:39:08 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: Red Badger
Lines lifted from ‘The Journey Home’ the scenes of which stick favorably in my memory. The notion of a Whale Biologist leaping into several centuries hence is just too good.
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posted on
07/30/2013 7:47:43 AM PDT
by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
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