Things that make you go hmmm......

[Devils Advocate NZ]

Do you remember the description of some of the materials supposedly found at the Roswell UFO crash?

Have a look at this:

The wispy metal strip in my hands is 8 inches long, 1 inch wide, and as thin as aluminum foil.

“Try to tear it,” says William Johnson, a materials science professor at Caltech in Pasadena.

I pull—first gently, but soon with all my might. No go.

“See if you can cut this,” suggests Johnson’s postgraduate assistant Jason Kang, handing me a mirror-bright piece of the same metal. It’s an inch long, a quarter inch wide, and thinner than a dime. I bear down with a heavy-duty pair of wire cutters. The metal will not cut. I try again, squeezing with both hands until my fingers ache. Nothing.

But the most amazing act in this show is yet to come.

“Watch,” says Johnson. From a height of about two feet, he drops a steel ball onto a brick-size chunk of the metal. The ball bounces so high and for so long—1 minute and 17 seconds, with a metronomic tick, tick, tick—that it looks unreal, like some kind of cinematic special effect. “When you try that with regular steel, it goes ‘clunk, clunk, clunk’ and stops,” says Johnson. If the metal were glued to an unyielding surface such as concrete (instead of sitting on Johnson’s oak coffee table, which absorbs a lot of the energy), “the ball would bounce for more than two minutes,” he says. “I’ve done it.”
http://www.discover.com/issues/apr-04/features/glassy-metals/?page=2

The full article is for paid subscribers only, and I wish I could read more, but isn't that first bit just wild?

Here is what Marcel said about the "tinfoil" like material they found that day in 1947:

"...the pieces of metal that we brought back were so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes." "...you could not tear or cut it either. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledgehammer, and there was still no dent in it."
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicroswell.htm

So, 57 YEARS later, we humans have finally come up with a material with properties similar to what Marcel described in 1947?

As I said, things that make you go hmmmm..... :tinfoilhat:

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Greedhead basstids!

Go to the source:

Glassy Metals search on Google

I don't think there's anything to the stories of what happened at Roswell ... but I've been wrong before ...

--bkl
... and am probably wrong again.