Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat (2017)

Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by ianai on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:42AM (#21675657)

Is that a Star Trek movie reference?

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by dghughes on Sunday December 01, 2019 @09:54AM (#21675710)

Yes. Original series when they went back in time. Scotty showed an earth engineer how to make transparent aluminum.

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by ars on Sunday December 01, 2019 @02:00PM (#21677166)

> how to make transparent aluminum

Which is just alumna (aluminium oxide, AKA ruby and other gems).

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by agumonkey on Monday December 02, 2019 @04:00PM (#21686870)

Homelab torch process can be seen on YouTube

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by mike_hock on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:02AM (#21676046)

A keyboard? How quaint!

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by Jgrubb on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:07AM (#21676066)

proceeds to type at 400 wpm...

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by furgooswft13 on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:29PM (#21676586)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkqiDu1BQXY

Using mostly his index fingers.

Suck it vim users, your editor has nothing on MOLECULAR DESIGN for System 3.0

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by mike_hock on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:14AM (#21676100)

Also makes you wonder how he was going to input that into the computer using voice commands.

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by zeeZ on Sunday December 01, 2019 @11:54AM (#21676316)

It's not as surprising of you can imagine all the stuff probably going on in the background when you say "<assistant of choice>, play the next episode of Star Trek on my TV"

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by mike_hock on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:39PM (#21676657)

Lots of stuff going on, but based on concepts known to the developers. He had to teach the computer how to synthesize a hitherto unknown substance. Can't get around the information entropy of the stuff he'd've had to input into the computer.

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by Godel_unicode on Monday December 02, 2019 @12:38AM (#21680089)

How hard is it to say "take $known_aluminum_alloy and add $dopant using $heating_process"?

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Re:Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electric... by dghughes on Sunday December 01, 2019 @12:22PM (#21676540)

Obviously by using the corded speakerphone "Hello computer".

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