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I’m telling Erin about the transparent aluminum thing.

February 21st, 2002

I’m telling Erin about the transparent aluminum thing.

Dan: … and it’s three times as strong as steel.
Erin: So we could have transparent cars?
Dan: Like Wonder Woman’s plane, yeah.
Erin: (quizzical look)
Dan: Yeah, it was invisible. You sometimes saw Wonder Woman,
visible, sitting in her invisible plane, zooming around. That’s how I
imagine transparent cars.
Erin: Ah. (beat) How did she find it?
Dan: What?
Erin: Her plane. If it’s invisible, you know? How did she
find it to get into it? These are the questions that nobody asks
for fifty years!

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