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There are still plenty of other degrees of interestingness in between "known" and "definitely aliens." These alloys could very well be mysterious not so much f
by mortenjorck 9y ago
There are still plenty of other degrees of interestingness in between "known" and "definitely aliens."
These alloys could very well be mysterious not so much for their composition, but for their condition, or their use at all in aircraft.
- starpilot 9y agoI could see them as hyper advanced metamaterials with effects we don't entirely understand. Materials science is still a very empirical field with lots of physical experimentation, trial and error. We can observe with SEM, x-ray etc. without fully connecting the dots to the end result. Sort of like dropping an iPhone X into the hands of a Victorian era scientist, who just dismantles it and sees it's a bunch of metal, without a chance of ever being able to reverse engineer it. It's just too advanced. But this is probably nothing.