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Not now, Madeline!

I noticed you're still working with polymers.

TBF in the Star Trek universe they also do get transparent aluminum earlier than stopping the wars.

That would be the hydrogen bomb. If we created a sizeable MIRV of cobalt bombs and pointed them at Jerusalem on an automated system that tracked the rate of violent death, suddenly all the religious types would get really polite.

(Obviously this is a supervillain example. we're considering alternative vectors towards peace and humanitarian aid in the holy land before holding it hostage. We're also running out of saner ideas.)

(Also, the Soviet Union did consider a doomsday device a la Dr. Strangelove as a cold war nuclear deterrent before the politburo decided it would never authorize a retalitory strike for sake of the species and moved on to Мирное сосуществование. Nearly eighty years without a nuclear war shows us even religious fanatics and madmen don't want to extinct the human species. Their heart's not in it.)

The problem is, smaller interests can't get the bomb yet. It takes too much complex industry to make. As a result, we still have huge swaths of powerless population to be bullied, enslaved and exploited.

Once the superweapon made from fir wood, Indian ocean tuna, granite and parafin becomes public we'll have to negotiate with even the smallest faction and arrange for the welfare and contentment of everyone... that is if we survive the intermediary tensions. Our plutocrats may choose extinction over giving up their power.

Yeah your mom really needs a bath.

Might be hard to assemble the functional part of a phone inside of a crystal, and you can't bake the whole thing because silicon isn't surviving 2000oC for 2 days.

wouldnt that stop the radio waves from reaching the phone, like a faraday cage?

Why do you think this would be more durable than tempered glass?

The original discoverer of the element spelled it "aluminum". The British publisher that published his work changed the spelling. The rest of the world got the right version of the man's work. The Brits are wrong.

Types of corundum maybe but I think that’s a stretch. Sapphire is (usually) blue Al2O3. Ruby is red Al2O3. Transparent aluminum is Al2O27N5.

Asking the important questions. Its a shame the article didn't have a section on this

Sapphire and Ruby are also transparent aluminum.

It isn¡t but not so strange, even in Nature exist Transparent Aluminium, called Saphires and Rubies. It's called transparent Metal, because of it's atomic structure cristaline, not amorph like normal cristal of an Window. Metal, also Aluminium has a cristaline structure.

Calm down Diana, your jet is a pipedream.