Fuck transparent aluminum. Have you read about this stuff yet? It started with someone stripping layers off a piece of graphite with scotch-tape untill there was just one molecule-layer left, and it may take some twenty years before this can start making an industrial impact, but it may supply us with materials that are superior in several ways (strength, isolation, conduction) while being as thin as thin gets. Promising stuff.
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To expensive. Scotch tape cost to much..
Humans are so intelligent, but they do not understand or forget nature.
If you want to see a one sided object, or two sided if you are pedantic: Take a narrow strip of paper and give it a twist and glue the ends together. It's called a Mobius strip and has only one side. Solitary
So...Moore's Law continues a while longer?
Not sure if this is going over people's heads, but this very very promising stuff... well beyond what Gene Roddenbery dreamed up. Meanwhile the 3-d printer is well on it's way to becoming Star Trek's replicator in every imaginable way. Print your own pizza folks.
Quote from: "Jutter"Meanwhile the 3-d printer is well on it's way to becoming Star Trek's replicator in every imaginable way.
Not quite. The replicator created matter itself out of its "fuelstock". You didn't need a load of cheese to make a pizza. A 3D printer could make a pretty good looking plastic pizza, but it can't make cheese out of plastic. (Although some of what they call "cheese" in the supermarket might be made of plastic,)