The Origins of Night and All

"Night and All" is a shape shifting memory retaining alloy that basically we use it today in a lot of things. NASA's making spaceship wheels out of it; they make stints out of it. The name Night and All stands for Naval,. something, something, something. And that's where it came from. But then when you look into the actual reports, now, sure, yeah, so it's transparent aluminum ... That's being studied at DARPA as an armor. "We have technology that we're studying right now that does it." We know DARPA has it, but where did it come from? And where did the idea come from? So we have these reports that

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