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One of the engineers here at work forwarded this link to our Design Department; needless to say we were impressed...

You have got to take a look at this new process for creating amorphous metal! It is a metal that does not “freeze” into a crystalline structure but increases it’s viscosity to harden (like glass)... allowing metal alloys to be used in manufacturing processes similar to plastics.

I imagine this sort of technology, if further refined & controlled, could be employed in things like the YF-21's 'morphing' wing structure, as seen in Macross Plus. Kinda gives some scientific basis for the 'polymimetic alloy' of the T-1000 and TX from The Terminator movies, too... Heck, with Nanotech advances, this sh*t 'll make for some amazing structural possibilities!

Click the “Technology” link at the top of the web page and then click the “Play Demo” video on the left hand side for a press release. It’s really amazing! Keep your eyes peeled for the armor-piercing display with a hole through a +/- 10” thick steel block!!! WOAH!!! :blink:

http://www.liquidmetal.com/

This is the sort of stuff that will make today's sci-fi dreams tomorrow's reality!!!

Not to mention more metal content instead of plastic in toys - cha right!!! :lol:

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Yeah, well let me know when it can get through 17.5 inch class A armor. :) (That's the Iowa's heaviest armor).

26 inches of armor is about the limit for modern artillery penetration. (Mark 7 gun cannot penetrate 26 inch Vickers B armor, IIRC--really close, but not quite)

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Hey! Now we can finally make a valkyrie, and have it deform to look good in all modes!

That's only one problem solved in making a valkyrie a reality. There's the type of propulsion system needed to make a plane travel that fast, the weapons needed for close combat, the AI system and others more. It would be a dream come true if they DO manage to build a valkyrie.

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Hey! Now we can finally make a valkyrie, and have it deform to look good in all modes!

That's only one problem solved in making a valkyrie a reality. There's the type of propulsion system needed to make a plane travel that fast, the weapons needed for close combat, the AI system and others more. It would be a dream come true if they DO manage to build a valkyrie.

ya, after that you'd just need to take a college course to fly the thing.

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