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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by BatFastard on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:21PM (#34018115)
Ideally it would be extruded diamond, but that technology will not be available until early in the 26th century. Second would be clear aluminum, but again that will not be available for another 150 years.
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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by gspetr on Friday December 16, 2022 @05:36PM (#34021564)
Just one question: Why did you give my homie Stephen Hawking the cold shoulder when he hosted a party[0] for time travelers in 2009?

[0] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/stephen-hawking-time-t...

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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by marcosdumay on Friday December 16, 2022 @08:21PM (#34023156)
The entire problem is that acrylic is not plastic enough, so it fails catastrophically. Well, diamond has all the nice features for structure building, but it's even britter than acrylic. So your sci-fi diamond tank would fail in an even more sensational way.
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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by Reason077 on Saturday December 17, 2022 @06:28AM (#34026898)
We have clear aluminium already in the form of sapphire glass (Al₂O₃). Presumably you're referring to a means of manufacturing it at a scale suitable for, say, an aquarium?
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Re:Huge cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish burst... by 4ad on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:16AM (#34027918)
It's a Star Trek joke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv5FGCeIP8I
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