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Rasmonis
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 05:26 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

What practical application would this material have, if any, in the moto industry?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerogel

Neat stuff pic (the blue stuff under the brick): http://lifeboat.com/images/brick.on.aerogel.jpg
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Barker
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 05:44 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

its expensive.

it shatters under slight pressure
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Scottykrein
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 06:50 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

http://www.unitednuclear.com/aerogel.htm
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Rasmonis
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 07:08 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

In the block form it shatters, but they have modified it's structure in several instances and used it for insulation.

I'm wondering if it can't be sandwiched between layers of film and used for body parts. Could it ever be used for engine blocks (after some serious modding), absurd no doubt, but who knows?
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Buellinachinashop
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 07:55 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

...shape of....an ice dildo.
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Tuesday, August 21, 2007 - 07:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

it's even more weird so see it in video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PfelqRpOQk

It diffracts the light like it is glass.
Just plain odd.
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Xl1200r
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 09:18 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Saw a program about this "frozen smoke" on the Discovery channel maybe 12 years ago or better - it was supposed to be the next big thing in everything.

Haven't heard a peep about since until now.
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Slaughter
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 11:02 am:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

Nope - except maybe in some place where insulation was critical and money was no object.
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Mikef5000
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 12:56 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)



That looks surreal.
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Natexlh1000
Posted on Wednesday, August 22, 2007 - 03:48 pm:   Edit Post Delete Post View Post/Check IP Print Post    Move Post (Custodian/Admin Only)

I suppose you could paint it and throw it at someone to freak them out.

(the brick too)
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