Wow! Think of how this will revolutionize the cowbell as a musical instrument! Definately more bang for the buck now.....

So now you're championing your own futuristic, obscure little piece of technology that "holds great promise for mankind." What is it with bloggers and their niche techno-sloganeering? Geez, why not just get yourself an RX-8 and a law degree, marry yourself some hot social-sciences researcher and the transformation will be complete?

I didn't even think of that.

This could drive down metal futures and thus lead to falling prices for cowbells.

Let me guess: It was invented in Saudi Arabia to use to make swords that slice off infidels' heads with minimal effort.

The only thing stronger than this new steel is the patent that will be striking blows on the heads of manufacturers everywhere before long.

What is it with bloggers and their niche techno-sloganeering? Geez, why not just get yourself an RX-8 and a law degree, marry yourself some hot social-sciences researcher and the transformation will be complete?

Nanotech is for dweebs, but steel advances are a man's subject.

In my defense, my "niche-techno-sloganeering" is always related to the military or at least obvious military applications, by the way.

Steel, explosives, guns, lasers. I don't blog the fact that ooooh, they discovered a new T-cell, now do I?

Ace of Spades: Keepin' it real on the geekteck tip.

I thought the coolest bit was this:

"Among applications Lu listed for amorphous steel, in addition to buildings and machinery, are armor-piercing projectiles, as well as electronics and recreational equipment, such as fishing poles, tennis rackets, golf clubs and hammers that really fuckin' slice."

I completely missed that. Good catch.

In honor of the inventor, the part of a yttrium-steel infidel-beheading blade that attaches to the handle will be known as the Poon tang.

Did this Mr. Poon have a butterfly band-aid below his nose, perchance?

And aren't all the T-cell discoveries reported over at O'Dub's and Sully's sites?

You like tech with potential military applications, Ace? I think this article is probably in some way about the army of the future.

Doug,

Yeah, but that article just bothers me. Ten years from now, all the young men are going to have the massive chiseled forms it's taken me years to achieve myself.

F'n kids. If they want muscle, they should do it the old fashioned way-- vetrinary-quality animal steroids.

Rearden Metal?

Liquid amorphous metal?

Crap. Next thing you know, we'll have to worry about killer robots from the future creeping around and stabbing us with their hand-blades.

Fess up, Ace. The only reason you posted this was so you could say 'Poon.' I can respect that.

Would a non-crystalline metal make a good cowbell? I mean, would it make that magical tuk-tuk-tuk sound like a piece of shitty, badly welded tin does?

Ooh, an Ayn Rand reference!

Who is Joseph Poon?

"Who is Joseph Poon?"

LMAO. That is hilarious.

Zetetic, I'm gonna have to steal that as my new comment alias.

Ace, it seems that if a safe, non-mood-altering anabolic comes along, the U.S. armed forces will have to employ it, because foreign armies will. It would be just too powerful an adjunct to boot camp to be ignored. Consider this, too: If funds for a college education are a powerful inducement to young men's volunteering for the armed forces, let's try to imagine what an enticement the promise of a totally hot body in eight weeks will be.

I wonder what effect the greater volunteerism would have on recruitment standards. Imagine a kid pleading with the recruiter to, please, let him sign up. "Sorry, son, we only take triple-digit IQ's." Fully half the youthful population would be instantly disqualified, the military would an in-group, and not being able to join the army would be seen as strong evidence of intellectual mediocrity.

Non-crystaline metals are not all that new, at least in theory. Back when I was sailing in the late '80's I read an article about how the biggest hurdle to lowering instruments into the Marianas trench was the weight of the cable itself. The limit of a steel cable to support itself in water is aparently about five miles down before it gets too heavy to support itself. Kevlar was a little better, but still short of the bottom of the Marianas by a long way. So someone was experimenting with making fibers out of... you guessed it, non-crystaline steel that would out-perform kevlar (you know, the shit we make helmets and armor out of) by orders of magnitude. In case you missed that Ace, let me repeat it... OUT PERFORM KEVLAR BY ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. Any military applications there? Who knows. But at the time, I don't think they had enough unobtanium or whatever it is to make it work. If Mr. Poon has come up with the secret sauce, we may be playing paintball with live ammo before you can say "Hey, pass me those API rounds."

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Ace, it seems that if a safe