This thread reminds me of that Star Trek movie when they go back to 198(5?).
They needed transparent Aluminium to create a lightweight water container to
transport some whales back to the future inside a klingon ship to save the
future Earth from destruction caused by an alien probe trying to communicate
to the previously mentioned ocean-dwelling creatures which in that time
period no longer existed....(INHALE).
With a story line like that it had to be a hit. :)
Matthew.