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riddla wrote:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl? ... 126&tid=14

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123012131

Too bad ol' Scotty couldn't have seen this one before he went to the big engineering room in the sky...

Big thanks riddla.

Was looking for this t'other day :icon14:

riddla wrote:makeabigdealoutofnothingium

andyman wrote:

riddla wrote:makeabigdealoutofnothingium

that tickled me too

properenglishisreallyjustgayium

this will be used to assist in killing thousands of ppl...

"We found that by polishing it a certain way, we increased the strength of the material by two-fold," he said.

Just by polishing, fucking shit

in some meterial's it will actually induce strength by polishing it, it will "Rework" the grain and allow beter aheasion of the metal partical's..

i learned this the hardway when it came to Fiberglass/Aluminum.

This got a mention on the speculist.

http://www.blog.speculist.com/archives/000491.html

Freakaloin wrote:this will be used to assist in killing thousands of ppl...

...I was going to say "fuck you" and remembered that this is GD...so...nm...

if you google "rub out finish" it like another example of a kind of hardening through polishing with mineral spirits

i like doing it to guitar necks

Scarface wrote:

"We found that by polishing it a certain way, we increased the strength of the material by two-fold," he said.

Just by polishing, fucking shit

Well polishing cleans the surface, so you don't have any crap inbetween surfaces and if you are bonding with heat then it aids in capillary action.

Freakaloin wrote:this will be used to assist in killing thousands of ppl...

lol... MORON ALERT!