Foam test cracks shuttle panel

[JodoForce]

http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1055217957.html

Are you so sure that suicidal Borg cube would only damage itself and not the neutronium hull of an SD now?

[Lord of the Farce]

http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1055217957.html

Are you so sure that suicidal Borg cube would only damage itself and not the neutronium hull of an SD now?

Well SSDs, which doesn't really have shields and armour on scale of it's size difference to ISDs, can get hit by three ISDs popping out of hyperspace right into it and not get damaged.

[Darth Yoshi]

Isn't this kind of old news?

Anyway, with the strength of SD armor, the cube will need to move extraordinarily fast.

[aerius]

It ain't surprising. Carbon-carbon composites aren't exactly strong, they just have ridiculously high heat resistance and are pretty lightweight. Common applications include jumbo jet disc brake rotors and the brake rotors used on F1 and LeMans cars. As a structural material or god forbid armor, it is piss poor. Whack one of those carbon-carbon discs with a hammer and it'll crack and/or shatter like glass. Do the same thing to an iron disc (nevermind high-strength steel) and you'll either die of boredom or break the hammer before you damage it.

[Uraniun235]

My physics teacher (who was, IIRC, the teacher who was next in line to have gone on Challenger) has a tile. It's pretty interesting because it doesn't seem like something I'd have expected to withstand multi-thousand degree temperatures.