Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Remember the Star Trek movie with the whales? Scotty and McCoy need to build a holding tank and they find a manufacturer who can build it for them and in the process is given the instructions for ‘transparent aluminum‘? (Scotty – “How do we know he didnt invent it?”)

Turns out its real. And being played with by the Air Force.

I know that theres been some movement in the development of transparent concrete, but I thought transparent aluminum was just going to stay in the realm of Star Trek for the forseeable future.

Mmmmm…a helmet visor made of the stuff would be pretty swell. To say nothing of using it as a coating for solar panels.