aluminum/steel foam: a new material!

[Ancalagon]

Aluminum/steel foam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFcs25KmMc&feature=player_embedded

Light as aluminum, as strong as steel, compressible!

[Snatch]

But is it transparent?

[Pigs in Space]

I don't see the point of this planning for the future "science" business when the rapture is happening any minute.

[Aloysius]

I don't see the point of this planning for the future "science" business when the rapture is happening any minute.
If you are atheist, you will need something to waste the billions dollars christians gave you to take care of their pets.

[Ergeheilalt]

I don't see the point of this planning for the future "science" business when the rapture is happening any minute.

Dirty heathens like Aloysius will have rapture + 7 years of time to burn. Might as well make interesting metal sponges.

[Aloysius]

Another funny new material : spray of liquid glass
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7125556/Liquid-glass-the-spray-on-scientific-revelation.html