Recent content by acrh2

It sounds to me that you want super light blades. The weight is not the problem here. Never has been. It's the ability to pocket the blade.

The level of ignorance in a single paragraph is astounding: 1) Windows have ALWAYS been an option in spacecraft. Vostok 1, the first manned spacecraft, had a window. 2) Plasma windows are anything but windows in the normal sense of the word. 3) They have been launching space observatories...

Did no one pick up, including the author of the news piece, that this "glass" is not transparent? From the original news article linked from this news piece, it appears that the word "glass" is used in its scientific form (amorphous material), not in its every day use (I can see through it).