Dont' bother beeming me up.

[cjolley]

Scotty succeded!

Transparent Aluminum

[spadnos]

Well - not quite (though it is cool).

This material has high compression strength, but they don't say anything about tensile strength. It's tensile strength that makes metals so useful. This is a ceramic, so I'm betting that it's very low.

- Steve

[cjolley]

Well - not quite (though it is cool).
...
- Steve

Well sure, but aluminum oxynitride just didn't have that ST ring to it.