Nyrath Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 http://blogs.discovery.com/earth/2009/02/taking-diamonds-down-a-notch.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Long Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Fascinating. Thanx for the link! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered . . . Imagine a race that has these minerals in their supporting structure, rather than calcium . . . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split Decision Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered cooooooooool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSword Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered . . . Imagine a race that has these minerals in their supporting structure' date=' rather than calcium . . .[/quote'] They would be genetically programmed to say 'bub' after at the end of every sentence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered That could be all they can say! Or maybe it works as for the Smurfs: "Bub, that bub won't bub, so I'd better bub you, bub, before you make a bub of it all!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered And you gotta love the descriptions: Both are exceedingly rare in nature, and both form under crushing, searing conditions. Lonsdaleite is forged in nature during asteroid impacts. Wurtzite boron nitride is even more enigmatic. It comes together in especially punishing volcanic eruptions One wonders about the insanely dangerous job of Lonsdaleite mining and Wurtzite boron nitride forging. The rock rats of the Pinball Asteroid Belt and the Wurtzite refiners in the hypervolcano region of the planet Inferno have great difficulty obtaining long term life insurance. Ah, the deadly peril of pyroclastic flow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psistrike Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Now just imagine a fictional alloy made of these two elements, along with a form of diamond bonded to them. Just when you think the real world and science fiction are too far seperated, they find things like this to prove us wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curufea Posted February 18, 2009 Report Share Posted February 18, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Unfortunately it's generally been proved that the hardness does not make something more difficult to shatter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Unfortunately it's generally been proved that the hardness does not make something more difficult to shatter. but a variant on the CeraMet process used for armor plates using the Wurtzite boron nitride and something tough, perhaps titanium... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered I can hear it now ... "Ooo .. Wolvie, your claws are so sparkly!" Cool link Nyrath ... now to put the idea in my Pulp game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Unfortunately it's generally been proved that the hardness does not make something more difficult to shatter. Yes, as a rule of thumb, the "harder" a material is, the more "brittle" the material is. Japanese samurai swords tried to avoid this by lamination. The sword is composed of alternating layers of hard material and un-brittle material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 19, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered now to put the idea in my Pulp game It says the materials are formed from asteroid impacts or huge volcanic eruptions. So the person or supervillain seeking the adamantium will be prospecting somewhere like the remains of Krakatoa or the floor of the dinosaur killer asteroid impact. Or of any of a host of related sites. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered It says the materials are formed from asteroid impacts or huge volcanic eruptions. So the person or supervillain seeking the adamantium will be prospecting somewhere like the remains of Krakatoa or the floor of the dinosaur killer asteroid impact. Or of any of a host of related sites. Or maybe they'll drop an asteroid on the Earth to make their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 19, 2009 Report Share Posted February 19, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Yes, as a rule of thumb, the "harder" a material is, the more "brittle" the material is. Japanese samurai swords tried to avoid this by lamination. The sword is composed of alternating layers of hard material and un-brittle material. In one of my past fantasy campaigns set in a variant of mythic Greece, the cyclopes used magic forges which could make diamond (which most scholars believe is what the classical Greeks meant when they referred to "adamant") as pliable as hot glass. The cyclopes forged blades of adamant by folding the soft diamond repeatedly, like folding steel, to overlay the crystal cleavage lines making the diamond more brittle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Yes, as a rule of thumb, the "harder" a material is, the more "brittle" the material is. Japanese samurai swords tried to avoid this by lamination. The sword is composed of alternating layers of hard material and un-brittle material. And they were differentially hardened so that the back was softer than the edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gewing Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered It says the materials are formed from asteroid impacts or huge volcanic eruptions. So the person or supervillain seeking the adamantium will be prospecting somewhere like the remains of Krakatoa or the floor of the dinosaur killer asteroid impact. Or of any of a host of related sites. The moon has a LOT of impact craters... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spence Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered And you gotta love the descriptions: Both are exceedingly rare in nature, and both form under crushing, searing conditions. Lonsdaleite is forged in nature during asteroid impacts. Wurtzite boron nitride is even more enigmatic. It comes together in especially punishing volcanic eruptions One wonders about the insanely dangerous job of Lonsdaleite mining and Wurtzite boron nitride forging. Proof positive that scientists should no longer be able to name things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beast Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered actually it is by turning the outer 1 or 2 molecules on the surface to a very hard steel then folding the metal and repeating the process many times giving a layered effect there is also slow cooling so the metal forms a a single crystal structure they by not having any boundries where flaws can occur Yes, as a rule of thumb, the "harder" a material is, the more "brittle" the material is. Japanese samurai swords tried to avoid this by lamination. The sword is composed of alternating layers of hard material and un-brittle material. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered The moon has a LOT of impact craters... Yes, but pulp hero campaigns tend to be Earth-bound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Yes' date=' but pulp hero campaigns tend to be Earth-bound.[/quote'] Well, except for the Flash Gordon-wannabes. Besides, this is the Star HERO forums. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Pulp Sci-Fi rules! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyrath Posted February 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Besides' date=' this is the Star HERO forums. [/quote'] Well, my post was in answer to Sketchpad's post, which said: Cool link Nyrath ... now to put the idea in my Pulp game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted February 20, 2009 Report Share Posted February 20, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered Point taken, Nyrath, my apologies. Pertinently, Digital Hero #5 offered a fine article on running pulp-sci-fi-style games, RAYGUNS AND ROCKETSHIPS by Leah Watts. Much of the article was excerpted as a free sample on the Hero Games website, and you can view that here. And speaking of pulp-sci-fi campaigns, this grand pulp campaign website, The Empire Club (inspired by the organization from Hero Games's classic pulp sourcebook Justice Inc.) includes an extended space adventure among its copious fascinating campaign logs. Click on the link, THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF THE EMPIRE CLUB, then on "Episodes Twenty-Three through Twenty-Nine." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted February 28, 2009 Report Share Posted February 28, 2009 Re: Adamantium discovered I knew there were boron nitride compounds that approached the hardness of diamonds, but I'd not heard that there were any that were harder. Nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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