Filling the air pockets with a substance like epoxy resin that bends light to a similar degree to the cell walls renders the wood transparent.

Unfortunately we still need to add plastic to make it strong.

NileRed has some videos about it:

https://youtu.be/uUU3jW7Y9Ak?si=3Xjwa0cbaoKOpYnB

We in the US can’t even get rights to protect ourselves. Good luck, aliens!

A long time ago I had this album (Napster era), I think it was called “Incubus vs Incubus” where someone had remixed all the songs from Make Yourself with half studio songs and half live and it was great. I lost it years ago and I’ve not seen it since.