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Plain-View-Piping
Replace all the plumbing in your house with completely transparent pipes. | |
Replace all the plumbing in your house
with state-of-the-plumbing-art
transparent pipes made out of
transparent alumina.
Imagine the fun as you watch the water
and, whatever else, flowing through the
pipes (that's if you install them outside of
the walls, like they are in my apartment).
Instantly find clogs. Reduce plumbing
bills. Enjoy life.
Transparent Alumina
http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/8/8/9
Read article then click image to see examples. Google "transparent aluminum" for better photos. [SpocksEyebrow, May 11 2005]
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Transparent aluminum, you say? |
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I'm thinking Yuck, Centre Georges Pompidou and aluminum/plastic what?! all at once. |
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Check out the link. Soon we will be able
to save the whales. |
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After cleaning my clogged sink I have a pretty good idea what's in my pipes, and I definitely don't want to see it. |
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I think transparent alumina is a fairly far cry from an "aluminum/plastic hybrid." The former is close to amorphous sapphire (that would be a lattice if allowed to cool more slowly) and makes sense while the latter hints at an unholy blend of lattice and long-chain and doesn't make much sense. |
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But, hey, Fraunhofer also gave us the MP3 so, who knows. |
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Someone just watched the Star Trek movie where Scotty gives a manufacturer the key to clear alluminum, to obtain plexiglass walls to build the tank to put the whales in. |
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I'm not sure I want a transparent waste pipe from the upstairs loo running through the rest of my house. |
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This is baked, at least in industry. I’ve been in laboratories where the piping was both exposed and transparent. But why alumina? Because it sounds like Scotty’s transparent aluminum, of course. |
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Eventually this will lead to pay-per-view-piping. |
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What's my goldfish doing in that pipe!!!? |
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I think this would be very handy for Floridians with 2 meter pythons coming up through the toilet bowl. They would have improved information with which to report to the animal control people. |
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Also baked in dairies that have glass piping. |
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I know I saw this clear pipes scheme on the HB at least once. I have a vague concept of an edgy bar in which the walls are decorated with clear sections of pipe from all the various appliances in the tower above. One could sip a drink and watch the passing parade. So to speak. |
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If someone remembers that idea, go ahead and link it up here. |
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