I have never seen a fiberglass drum but I have seen plenty of flawless fiberglass boats and car skins.
Which PowerBook model uses carbon fiber? That stuff is extremely expensive.
Note ... the "flawless" surface of the boat (or corvette) is actually a gel-coat layer painted OVER the fiberglass (fiberglass by itself finishes very poorly) ...
Ha ha! Transparent Aluminum would be so appropriate. It is from one of the Star Trek movies... The best part though, is that Scotty used an old Mac (Classic?) to show them how to make the "transparent aluminum".
Actually it was even older, a Plus. What I found funny is that he had no idea how to use the mouse, and yet he typed extremely quickly on the QWERTY keyboard and he seemed to know the Mac OS well enough to speed through it very well. Just not with a mouse.
about the flowing glass thing... ya, glass is a sort of liquid, but do you really anticipate your mac last hundreds of years? personally, i like the clean look of the g5, and tohugh seeing the inside of your mac all the time would be cool, it wouldnt be nearly as elegant... unless it had some really cool lights....
Note ... the "flawless" surface of the boat (or corvette) is actually a gel-coat layer painted OVER the fiberglass (fiberglass by itself finishes very poorly) ...
Well, the gel-coat is nothing more than an extra layer of polyester resin. I recently fiberglassed a wooden table top and decided against a gel coat for it. The texture of the glass cloth looked interesting and gave the table surface anti-slip qualities.
Wood? Ummmm... Why not just cover Ive in ants and ask him if he itches?
While we're on the topic of ridiculously overly expensive cases that are there to just look cool, I would make a dual pane clear plastic case and fill the insides with aerogel .
Zylon: twice as strong as Kevlar an unafected by molten aluminum at 1200F.
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
... or Depleted Uranium, for that matter. You could market it by remaking the G5 ad to show a single dUMac G5 being fired through an open plan office, eviscerating dozens of Dells as it goes.
... or Depleted Uranium, for that matter. You could market it by remaking the G5 ad to show a single dUMac G5 being fired through an open plan office, eviscerating dozens of Dells as it goes.
I think that that's one ad we'd all like to see!
I'd pay real money to see such a commercial. It kind of reminds me of Power computing ads. Of course such a DU Mac would probably weigh about a hundred pounds. DU is used armor piercing munitions because it is dense as you can get withouth a noticable glow in the dark and because when it hits a target it doesn't deform like a steel projectile, but instead the center of the target keeps going and the ends slow down- in other words, it forms the shape of a cone. It isn't the kind of thing that you want to get hit with.
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
The difference is that you can buy Zylon cloth on eBay for about $6 a square yard, while carbon nanotubes and depleted uranium cloth or sheets are nowhere to be found.
Boron Nitride or even pure boron metal might be interesting. Very light elements. Fairly tough materials. Boron Nitride is an electrical insulator but a good heat conductor.
I would be interested in seeing computers implanted in living things, for example a stripped down airport implanted in a tree and drawing power from it...
Should be easy enough, graft your airport and lan cable to a baby tree and let the tree grow around it.
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Originally posted by Tidris
I have never seen a fiberglass drum but I have seen plenty of flawless fiberglass boats and car skins.
Which PowerBook model uses carbon fiber? That stuff is extremely expensive.
Note ... the "flawless" surface of the boat (or corvette) is actually a gel-coat layer painted OVER the fiberglass (fiberglass by itself finishes very poorly) ...
Originally posted by KingOfSomewhereHot
Note ... the "flawless" surface of the boat (or corvette) is actually a gel-coat layer painted OVER the fiberglass (fiberglass by itself finishes very poorly) ...
Well, the gel-coat is nothing more than an extra layer of polyester resin. I recently fiberglassed a wooden table top and decided against a gel coat for it. The texture of the glass cloth looked interesting and gave the table surface anti-slip qualities.
Originally posted by Programmer
Kevlar: the bulletproof Mac.
Zylon: twice as strong as Kevlar an unafected by molten aluminum at 1200F.
While we're on the topic of ridiculously overly expensive cases that are there to just look cool, I would make a dual pane clear plastic case and fill the insides with aerogel .
Then I'd put some lights in it.
Originally posted by Tidris
Zylon: twice as strong as Kevlar an unafected by molten aluminum at 1200F.
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
Originally posted by Yevgeny
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
... or Depleted Uranium, for that matter. You could market it by remaking the G5 ad to show a single dUMac G5 being fired through an open plan office, eviscerating dozens of Dells as it goes.
I think that that's one ad we'd all like to see!
Originally posted by boy_analog
... or Depleted Uranium, for that matter. You could market it by remaking the G5 ad to show a single dUMac G5 being fired through an open plan office, eviscerating dozens of Dells as it goes.
I think that that's one ad we'd all like to see!
I'd pay real money to see such a commercial. It kind of reminds me of Power computing ads. Of course such a DU Mac would probably weigh about a hundred pounds. DU is used armor piercing munitions because it is dense as you can get withouth a noticable glow in the dark and because when it hits a target it doesn't deform like a steel projectile, but instead the center of the target keeps going and the ends slow down- in other words, it forms the shape of a cone. It isn't the kind of thing that you want to get hit with.
More power computing ads
Originally posted by Yevgeny
Carbon nanotubes. 17 times stronger than Kevlar (tensile strength). This would make for quite a tv ad where a G6 is taking fire from a 50 caliber sniper rifle and just denting a little bit... of course, we'll need some good ceramic plating around the frame to spread out the force of the impact. Talk about a ruggedized computer...
We have the technology... we can make it faster... stronger...
The difference is that you can buy Zylon cloth on eBay for about $6 a square yard, while carbon nanotubes and depleted uranium cloth or sheets are nowhere to be found.
Originally posted by Bancho
Depleted uranium is rather plentiful in both Iraq and Afghanistan. The only problematic part is collecting it.
the main problem of depleted uranium is his weight ... Even lead is a joke when you compare his density with depleted uranium
Should be easy enough, graft your airport and lan cable to a baby tree and let the tree grow around it.
Originally posted by Moogs
The Pyrex? - encased iMac... it's the wave of the future. Unbreakable and you can heat it to over 400 degrees in your oven!
Of course you'd be typing at it while wearing oven mitts...
...sorta like Strongbad (escept he used boxing gloves 'cause he's way cool).