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Chemists Build an Explosive Super-Molecule
Lockle writes "A new super explosive has been invented at the University of Chicago. It's based on an existing explosive molecule called "Cubane" but it has oxygen and nitrogen bonded to it for a bigger boom. It's called Octanitrocubane. The news release can be found at Angewandte Chemie International Edition which is a German chemistry magazine (page is in English). More detailed info about Cubane, Octanitrocubane's predecessor, can be found at a site devoted to it."
give me some beans, and lighter, and i'll top that.
The ONCe-fired, ONCe-killed gun!
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More ingredients! Time to make some new recipies for the Anarchists Cookbook!
...In their defense, they may actually have a use for cubane.com.
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um, sigs should be heard and not seen?
rooooar
.. with this microsoft stuff ? Someone mentions a superexplosive and up comes the MS beta evaluation program.. and then they call *us* the conspiracy freaks.
thats what he wants!!!
hot Octanitrocubane down my pants!
I love it - "super-explosive". Yeah... since when did exothermic reactions get to be more potent than nuclear explosives? Just wait... once it hits the cover of Wired and the NY Times it'll be potent enough to destroy entire *cities* with just a few drops of this stuff (Fact checking, what's that?). Mark my words - this'll get blown out of proportion (pun intended) by the media.
the slashdot crew needs to know how the users feel! and since everytime someone write ROB about it, he will delay it even longer!!!!
LITERALLY EXPLODING WITH DICK
"Yotto, yotto."
"Because he's holding a molecule of Octanitrocubane!!"
"Eee cabbo nawoooshka da babble e foto Shta Treck"
"Oh, the might Jabba says that Octanitrocubane sounds like silly techno-babble and suggests you go back to Star Trek."
You must really have an inferiority complex if you think this is needed. Does it make you feel like a big man to rip apart someone else?
He has already ripped us apart. Look at his post, calling those who request the source code an "Ass".
OKAY NOW PUT THE LEFT PRICK IN YOUR RIGHT HAND AND JUST ONE IN YOUR MOUTH
NOW PUT BOTH PRICKS FROM YOUR LEFT HAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF YOUR MOUTH
YOU ARE VERY FUCKING FAT
(1) ... to install expensive bloatware that will reduce their productivity while forcing them to purchase new hardware to run larger tied and bundled applications with the same functionality as the previous versions...
(2) ... to take nearly a decade to catch on to the fact that Microsoft has a monopoly on PC OS systems and that maybe getting certified would catch you some of their trickle-down dollars.
(3) ... to download pr0n and ju4r3z over their fat pipe oblivious to the fact that the non-MS network gear is logging your illicit and illegal behavior
(4) ... to read a "dummies" guide to certification to pay to be tested on IT common sense.
Where do I sign up again?
"Cause there's 40 different shades of black, so many fortresses and ways to attack, so why you complainin'?"
The science behind Octanitrocubane is actually almost fourty years old. A Swiss/German chemist by the name of Fritz Veinluhg published a paper outlining the basic structures in 1958, as part of an alternate hydrofusion technology proposal. It was also expected that these advances would lead to weapons uses, but a lack of funding and governmental support, not to mention overshadowing research being performed in the US, seemed to doom Veinluhg's work. However there was a surge of interest in the man after his death in 1986. It's good to actually see something come of it, and hopefully Veinluhg will be remembered for his fresh outlook on molecular science.
Does that make it right? Deal.
This was the funniest!
Way to go, AC. Screw the moderators. I loved it.
no, and neither does him calling anyone who requests the source an "Ass"
...would be a Beowulf cluster of these molecules! Wow!
("Bring it on. I don't care. I've got karma points to spare.")
Save the whales. Feed the hungry. Free the mallocs.
Actually, dickhead, he calls people who send him flamey e-mail an ass.
Learn to read, it might stop you advertising how stupid you really are.
If you read the article, it sais that the explosive is not as dense and therefore not as powerfull as it was expected to be. At least in its present form... Personally I am quite happy with that, because this means that there is still no cooking recipe for yet another explosive. On the other hand I hope they fix the theory for science sake.
For the Dutch people, there is a piece about it in the Volkskrant Wetenschap sectie.
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PRAY, my child, to Tac and St. Hemos that this sin of transgression against the Church of Slashdot may be removed from your. Do not offend them again!
And speak also not any blasphemy of the Slash source, for it is only RIGHT and CORRECT that the number one site for Free Software keeps its own source code locked up, for this is what the Gods have given us, and we must accept what thaey tell us, without commiting the GREVIOUS SIN of thought.
In Rob Malda's name,
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Perhaps you can't see that malda is the epitome of all hypocrits. Learn to read and comprehend, and perhaps you will not be quite as afraid to post as an AC. I wouldn't be suprised if you worked for ANDOVER annonymously posting in MALDAS defense.
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The article does not say that it has a "bigger boom" as the slashdot headline implies. It says it could be, but says the crystalline form does not have the density they predicted. Researchers are still looking for the denser version.
You mean slashdot has a science/math story that isn't related to patents? No way! Someone tell this guy he's missing the boat....
This really beats the hell out of all the legal shit we've been seeing here for the past while. It also tops any of the vast number of IPO stuff we've seen in the past while too.
As per usual, I say fuck the ACs too chicken shit to at least make up a pseudo-name to flame with. Good job Roblimo.
Now, that's funny. If you want to get your point across, this is the way to do it, not mindless flame or stupid ASCII-art (and I use the term 'art' VERY loosely). Well done.
I care!
:> For those of us who do like them, we'll read the articles.
:> I think a lot of people are pleased with Slashdot (like me!).
:> I bit :>
Sometimes there are articles that I don't care about on Slashdot. Sometimes there are articles I -do- care about. Its important to understand that we don't all have the exact same interests. I think the Slashdot crew has a terrific set of categories that they post about, and if there is one category you don't like, its very easy to filter that topic out.
So, go do that if you don't like Science things
So, quit with the negative attitude. If you don't like Slashdot, leave
Oh well.
I wonder how this will effect the space program. If it can be mass-produced then the aerostar project might be that much closer to completion
you can find a few translated passages here.
Robin, you've done it again!
First, the red cars!
Now, the "Cubane" molecule.
Don't you see, people! Cubane = CUBAN!
And what are Cubans? COMMUNISTS!
Because of the recent advances of our Socialist Revolution into the so-called 'hard' (as opposed to 'soft' sciences, such as Marxism, Leninism, Statism), we will soon possess the super-explosives to out the evil Capitalist fat cat industrial leaders, like the king of the Randite batards himself, President KKKlinton, after which the wheels of industry will be halted, and the workers will once again assume control of production!
COMRADES! We must seize the oppurtunity that Comrade Miller has afforded us! Death to capitalism! We shall be free!
The hand, though well constructed(:-)) is a very crude touch and I find it insulting both to my sensibilty and to my trust in Slashdot to avoid this kind of sh-t. I have to say this was one of the weaker moments in Slash's history.
Respectfully, mmt
P.S. All you "Anonymous Cowards"... have some respect for Rob and at least sign you responses!
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What exactly are the commercial possiblilities of Ovine Aviation?
Hmmm, while you're at your remedial reading course, you might want to brush up on your spelling, too. For future reference, it's 'hypocrites'. I guess I'm as afraid as you then, huh? Boy, is the title of this thread apt. I don't work for Andover. Of course, I don't expect that to convince you. I do, however sympathize with Rob's plight. I wouldn't give an asshole like you a line of my code if your life depended on it. I bet the first thing you do when you get it (assuming you even know how to comprehend it) is send him a nice flamey e-mail telling him how crappy his code is. Here's a novel idea. Write your own, you've obviously got the spare time to kill if you're posting comments like these.
So, why don't you put a beowulf cluster to take care of that? Natalie Portman could do it!!!!!
slashdot is a bunch of millionaire sellout pussies
now they are fucking rich and stuck up
>flamey e-mail an ass.
>Learn to read, it might stop you advertising how
>stupid you really are. C'mon, Rob, there's no need to get nasty! And posting as AC, too... I guess you really are a coward.
Rob
/I/ enjoyed it.
Keep it up.
You, of course, are right. They are being hypocrites. But remember this, just about the only tangible asset that Andover.net has is the /. source code (see the Wall St Journal). They release the source, and the could lose millions.
I saw the d00d back in September on a History Channel special called "Magic of Science: Modern Chemistry and the Minds Behind It". They say the same thing about how his ideas were "revolutionary", but he was pretty much ignored while he was alive.
I notice that "Cubane" sounds a helluva lot like
"Cobain". Listening to an R.E.M. song:
blame, blame, blame"You came to bang, bang, bang, bang, and bang,"
You bang, bang, bang, bang, and bang,
It's not my thing so let it go."
And that song's supposed to be a tribute to Kurt.
Coincidence? I think not.
(Aw, PHUQ! A black helicopter just landed in my
cornpatch... EOF)
Kann jemand mir helfen zu, eine Kopie dieses Buches in den USA finden? Ach, und meine Bälle saugt.
In that case, they should at least admit they'll never release the source and stop that "how much work a source release for this is" whining.
brah!
Explosive power doubles every 133 years?
So what do you think explosives are /really/ used for? By far the biggest tonnage is mining, closely followed by industry. Why do you get to freaking out about military apps? Get real some real life /please/.
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I can just see it now, the "Cuban Cubane Crisis".
"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep." --Saul Belloe
I am drawing a complete blank on this one. I'm a Physics major and I've never heard of him. You say he was German/Swiss? Some other information would be helpful.
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Those 60-DEGREEbonds have got to be extremely unstable, maybe more than cubane's. And if you can stick 2 on top of each other... hoo boy...
Dunno if this would actually hold together, though.
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"A new super explosive has been invented at the University of Chicago. It's based on an existing explosive molecule called "Cubane" but it has oxygen and nitrogen bonded to it for a bigger boom." HEH! Wait 'till those script kiddie terrorists get a hold of this one!
...the first practical antimatter explosives.
You know it's only a matter of time. Imagine it, perfect control over explosive power from strategic nuke to radioactive firecracker that can be hidden in your pocket (okay, maybe not, I guess the containment hardware will probably start out around the size of a house; but eventually... ).
That will really change the world. Who cares about wimpy chemical explosives?
This stuff is bound to get some negative publicity...people think of explosives, and of course weaponry is one of the first things that comes to mind. Terrorist bombings are always eaten up and blown out of proportion (haha, punny) by the news, and the general public gets paranoid about anything that they don't understand...it's not as if this stuff is going to be freely available at drug stores.
It would probably be better if some stuff never made it to big news, and this is probably one of those things.
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Robin: Who the FUCK cares?
I really want to know.
Many
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"Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."
The compound itself? Ah who cares. But Chime impressed me though.
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Let me share my personal explsoive technique. Nitration of hexamethylenetetramine to make cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine.
:o) But, a cute bitch. There is a difference! Accept only the real deal!
Or you could ask me to administer your NT server. Both produce an extremely violent explosion.
Move Along. Nothing to see here.
*WARNING! CRAPPY SIG BELOW*
Me is a serious biiiitch
It's good to see the MIC is still funding top notch Death and Destruction research. It would be a real shame to see progress come to a grinding halt with regard to clever new ways to blow things/people/fleshy-headed-mutants into smaller bits.
Maybe I'm just being cynical and this research is actually competing with fuel cells for the right to power your Crusoe in 3 to 5 years.
Hey, it did work! You just have to look at it the right way...
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As evident from this page and several other sources:
So for now, we are only seeing a few molecules at a time. However, 50 pounds of CL-20, which is about 20% more powerful than HMX, has been produced, and the government appears to have just finished the testing of warheads with CL-20.
About.com has links and information:
HMX and RDX
Another resource:
Cub ane Applications
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Hey, I replied to your post before you made it! To put this trick to a useful task, see my "homepage."
And please don't let #150 be another AC!
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Octanitrocubane? He was one of the Decepticons, wasn't he? Wasn't he the dude that changed from a robot into a train into a space shuttle? Shit! No, that was Astrotrain. I think my mind is going. Somebody please help me. Was he an Insecticon? A Constructicon? A Stunticon? O, Sweet Jesus, my mind is going.
Photon torpedos are quite a while in the future. And besides, because of coservation of energy, you have to put in all of the energy that you want to get back out.
This makes me wonder how expensive these things are to make. IANACE (I'm not a chemical engineer), but I'm pretty sure that the higher energy something is, the harder is it to make (since equilibrium is not in it's favor). Looking at the structure, it's no wonder that the thing is so unstable - the bonds that are supposed to be tetrahedral (~109 degress) are bent inward to 90 degrees, which increases the energy stored in it, but also the amount of energy that you have to put into it.
-ElJefe
Slashdot has reached a new level!!!
It is easy for you to say. Do you know how many people will die from his research work? How more territorists will be able to produce more powerful bombs, and blow up buildings in America? Fritz Veinluhg, like Albert Einstein, will be remembered for their contributions to the murders of innocent people... Oh, wait, I forget I am a fool...
Fools of America, unite! Join the
Well, there are intresting things about sciance that some of us might be intrested in hearing about. But this is not one of them.
Welcome to the future!
I responded before you posted!
I bring peace and goodness!
The tips of the Networks wings held the beautiful treasures of the emperor, above the glistening copper seas, where information flowed and ebbed in cacophony of energy. The information of course, was the reality as it blustered against the smooth white walls of the palace, and in his high thrown room he saw for miles the patterns in the ebbs, the nodal points.
But in his tower today and for many days proceeding, his face was grave and ashen. The terror of the uprising, the disenfranchised proletariat, rising from there own copper seas, of misery and despair. There existence siphoned to feed the emperor while there ideas washed away in static, like a television far to far from the warm and constant glow of a channel.
And with their swords and machines of easy death they marched. For liberty. For the freedom that all information strives for, and on their cracked, dry lips, dehydrated in the harsh frozen elements arose forth a battle cry fearful more in its clear and beautiful message then its ferial guttural delivery. Though tired and broken animals, sick and wounded. Slaughtered like pigs at the emperors behest, they were only human when they screamed.
"For the people, AUTOMATIC".
FUCK OFF
I WANT TO SEE SOME PICTURES OF THIS BABY IN ACTION!!!!
ME WANT BOOM!!!Damnit, what the hell kind of crack are the moderators smoking????
Considering the large number of Linux users here, it is extremely unfair to post links to pages that cause pop-ups for a plug-in that is not available for Linux.
Thanks,
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Damnit, what the hell kind of crack are the moderators smoking????
cripes:
Sorry for posting that so many times, but the title of my post was supposed to be '(Score:2 Insightful)???
I guess slashdot filters that or somthing my last attempt was just --Score:2 Insightful???
I did this to prove a point -- Slashdot moderators are complete morons that don't even bother to read before they moderate. I used the phrase "alternate hydrofusion techonology". Anyone who knows anything about the field will tell you that means ABSOLUTELY nothing! Veinluhg never existd, and Veinluhg isn't even a real name.
This is the most hilarious thing EVER! See, I am the Chide Molesta of Slashdot past, and I've found an even better way to kill the Karma whores. I have wasted 5 karma points getting moderated up, and you'll have to waste another 6 to get me below the default threshhold.
Please send fanmail to chide_molesta@hotmail.com. Slashdot moderators suck, and now I can prove that they're complete dumbasses! Fuck you all!
I am 31337, baby!
I faked the whole thing. Look, everyone, the original post and most of the replies are from the same half-hour. And get Rob to check the logs -- they're all from the same IP address. If you have any more doubts, try translating the German sentences. Most of them say things like "Suck me, your mother is a prostitute." Also, the links provided go to porno sites. Yes, I faked the whole thing. And now, at 11:52pm EST, I have a moderation of 5, Interesting! And it's all bullshit!
I did this to prove a point -- Slashdot moderators are complete morons that don't even bother to read before they moderate. I used the phrase "alternate hydrofusion techonology". Anyone who knows anything about the field will tell you that means ABSOLUTELY nothing! Veinluhg never existd, and Veinluhg isn't even a real name.
This is the most hilarious thing EVER! See, I am the Chide Molesta of Slashdot past, and I've found an even better way to kill the Karma whores. I have wasted 5 of your karma points getting moderated up, and you'll have to waste another 6 to get me below the default threshhold.
Please send fanmail to chide_molesta@hotmail.com. Slashdot moderators suck, and now I can prove that they're complete dumbasses! Fuck you all!
I take offense at Slashdot allowing a MAN with a WOMAN'S NAME to post stories here. Many children at the impressionable age of 17-23 read this site, and seeing BOYS named ROBIN may corrupt their minds and lead them away from traditional Biblical gender identities!
Now now, think about this. Would Natalie Portman be HALF as sexy and popular if she were named "Bob Smith"? No. Because Bob Smith is a BOY'S name. Natalie Portman is a GIRL'S name. Men and women are different, and GLORIFYING a boy named as if he were a girl is tantamount to TEACHING OUR CHILDREN THAT HOMOSEXUALITY AND TRANSVESTISM ARE VALID LIFESTYLE CHOICES.
Ban "Robin Limo" for the sake of the children, and for the sake of Slashdot. We must not stand for ABOMINATION.
Bah, I bet the atheist-crazed tyrants of Slashdot, Rob "CmdrTiffany" Malda, and Jeff "Princess" Bates won't like this idea. Typical. That's fine with me. Here's a graphical representation of the Slashdot situation:
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For those atheists out there who aren't smart enough to understand what the drawing means, SLASHDOT IS MOVING DIRECTLY TOWARDS HELL!
FOO
I am the deal
Brilliant!
Stunning!
Excellent!
A great fraud! (5, Informative)!
I hope the moderators realize what a bunch of shit this is!
I translated some of the works and other things:
Saugen Sie mich: Sie sind dumm : Suck me, they are stupid
Kann jemand mir helfen zu, eine Kopie dieses Buches in den USA finden? Ach, und meine Bälle saugt. : Can someone help me too, find a copy of this book in the USA? Oh, and my balls sucks.
Fluch, sind Sie etwas Scheiße. Sie sollten gehen lecken Ihre eigenen Hinterteile. Ich hoffe, daß Sie Geschlecht mit Ihrer Mutter wiederholt in einer Gasse haben. Gehen Sie zur Hölle und sterben Sie : Curse, are you something scheisse. They should go lick your own back parts. I hope that you have sex with your nut/mother repeated in a lane. Go to hell and dying you.
YOU ARE AWEsome!
I just got back from lunch and this was the first thing I saw. Almost unverifiable, and WTF is hydrofusion?
Thank you and goodnight.
Antimatter exsplosives are already practical, the only problem is making the stuff. I think it costs like $100 trillion dolars for a microgram or somthing
i hate you, as well
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Containment is a major problem, as is producing sufficiently dense and stable antimatter (anti-hydrogen just ain't gonna cut it if you want to safely carry the equivalent of a strategic nuke in your pocket).
Eistein did NOT build the A-bomb, he was not part of the Manhattan Project. He layed some of the ground work (very fundamental, and important, but not direct), and recommended to the President that we start such a project; that is just about as far as you can take it. He also, later, was an outspoken critic of the program, and future programs (e.g., H-bomb).
Nevermind the politics of using the A-bomb, and the justification...
if you cant handle the heat... let the masses help you out. as for the whole 'we dont want to tech support for our code' that can be solved by setting up a slashdot source code mailing list,, knowledgable people who can get it working will help out other people.. they will contribute comments, fixes, etc.. improve the source base.. its a revolutionary idea and i plan to publish a paper on it, i think i call it 'free and open source' or something.. i think you should experiment with it.
Looks good dumbass. Next time try the tag. Dumbfuck.
i was stunned, absolutely stunned, to read your 'funny' signature.. as if exploding jolt cola is something to laugh about. we couldnt even have an open casket at the funeral, and there you are making a joke about it, like its something funny, some kind of prank. the pain and suffering my family have had to go through since the accident have been overwhelming, only with our faith in satan could we have pulled through it. you are truly an abominable and insensitive person.. truly a low point in the history of the internet and perhaps human life itself.
face the facts, dude.
High quality columbian.
i really dont care about explosives, nothing to do with slashdot and open source .
Looks like roblimo is boring, i got a better post for u: mp3.com got sued, thats more interesting that someone invented a better fire cracker.. come on rob, stop browing into universities webpages and posting their new inventions.
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Shouldn't we be thanking Rob and Slashdot for what they have already acomplished? They're working hard as many of us can empathise. Too many things. Why not just write your own code though? Use mysql & php to make something equal or better than slashdots current system. (i'm currently working on one) here are some good sources the DevShead and WebMonkey for those of you who just want to copy and paste and not learn anything... don't bother.
It adds to my scroll time and I could be doing something productive during that time... like... um... posting compla^H^H^H^H^H^Himportant messages on /.!
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What exactly are the commercial possiblilities of Ovine Aviation?
"alternate hydrofusion techonology"
/. moderators have done the following:
This could be a whole new social experiment!
"Group therepy for insecurity via token
exchange"
"We inserted a placebo within the dialog to measure the Haardtsadt effect in the subjects.
As predicted, the more sophisticated the post
appeared, the more tokens it would recieve.
Even if the sophistication was purely fictional."
The question:
Are slashdot moderators weak brained chickenheads,
or is there a more intersting social dynamic?
Personally, I don't care. I've always had the
impression they were a bunch of nitwits and
this is beautiful to see it crystalized.
Checkmate!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Moderation is BOGUS.
All
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2.) Enabled cookies.
Do we really expect brain surgeons?
yeah /. is cool, i rhink roblimo is kind of tired, thats why he posts some lame shit.
hey rob, take some time off, go to Utila Island.
yeah /. is cool, i think roblimo is kind of tired, thats why he posts some lame shit.
hey rob, take some time off, go to Utila Island.
lets go blow up Bill Gates with this molecule
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How would you propose that they go about making money from the /. source code? Comments are easy, methods for making them are included in cgi programming books as example programs. Logins are likewise straightforward. Administering them is a little more difficult, but still feasible. The real jewel of the code is the moderation system, but that is unneccessary for sites with a low volume. So who are they going to sell this code to, that doesn't already employ programmers to make their own cgi solution anyway? I doubt there is much of a market for this kind of thing.
Communication is only possible between equals
Notice the name Cuban-nee, Octa-nitro-Cuban-nee? Even the name of the chemist is from two Chinese communist leaders too. I remember there was one similar jokes about a molecule being discovered around administrations, government offices, etc., that can slow down chemical activities. That joke is on why things around these places just work slower than any other places. This one I'm not sure what the joke is, could be a little racial...
- Etam
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:)
Wow, that sure got you guys moving...
Nice ASCII though...
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Why is this post so poorly moderated. Please moderate this thread. Also, I encourage any of you vicious, blood-thristy little ones to attack Unitek's website http://www.unitek.com/default.asp (note that *.asp my little script kiddies), assult their phone and fax numbers and generally convey the fact that /. isn't for crappy corporate advertising (and advertising for Microsoft training at that!!!)
what song did that come from
Maybe I should register this one it might be worth some money some day.
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
NPS Internet Solutions, LLC
Nathaniel P. Wilkerson
www.haidacarver.com
why doesn't Andover host slashdot-like discussions for different types of genres... think about it, a site might cater to discussions about a certain game. this could be 'outsourced' to andover.net. Andover then gets the ad revenue.
Just a thought.
Keep it closed Andover, make some money! Be evil! Or is this good? It's all relative baby!
No boom today, boom tomorrow. There is always a boom tomorrow. BOOM!
(8-DCS)
Ha. I guess you don't have a snappy comeback for that one, loser.
So what you're saying is:
I am smarter than Slashdot users
I would be a better moderator than Slashdot users
Slashdot needs to get rid of everyone else because I'm smarter than them, and I shouldn't have to put up with people who aren't as absolutely stunningly brilliant as I am.
Yeah, great. Now how about you quit bitching and do something about it instead. (Such as leave.)
I almost want to sue this company... just for taking up space... they should be paying andover.net advertising fees
wow... trolls everywhere... yeah i think it's cool that they might be sell outs.. if you guys take a look at the readme in the slash code it's full of rob being poor and stuff... and now he isn't maybe enough people sent him money or something... send me money who ever you are!
What amused me about a superconducting magnetic coil was that it didn't require much extra energy to maintain the magnetic field, only to set it up. Theoretically, were a room-temperature superconducting material discovered, you could put the trap in your pocket...wiping every credit card in your presence, making weird patterns on nearby screens, and giving your future children third arms (not really). =)
Quantity is also an issue. In order to be useable and trappable, you need "cold" antimatter (i.e., not moving at 99% of the speed of light!); LEAR used to be the #1 place for this sort of thing, but CERN closed LEAR down, so now we're just left with Fermilab, which apparently isn't very good at generating cold antimatter in quantity (that's just on hearsay). There's speculation of a new, better facility in the works...?
But yes, just to bring things back to reality, my simulations on the computer dealt with a single antiproton being eased through clouds of positrons (anti-electrons) in the hope that some of the positrons would catch onto the antiproton to form AntiHydrogen. I'm not sure that in the 4 years since then they've even managed to get a single confirmed COLD (trapped) atom of AntiHydrogen. I remember that one of the funnier and more intriguing questions was "Which way will it fall under gravity?" (the strong presumtion is DOWN, but nobody knows for sure!).
It's going to be a long time before we have to worry about anti-matter bombs, especially small, portable, undetectable ones. (6 Tesla magnetic fields and the devices that make them are pretty hard to sneak around in a subtle fashion!)
David E. Weekly (dew, Think)
David E. Weekly
Code / Think / Teach / Learn
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That's more than escape velocity from earth. Now we can really blow things away...
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Bah! Take a kilo of Na, and throw it in a tank of water. first one who will tell me what that'll do, wins. --------------- i'm not anonymous, i'm George Tsiros, gtsiros@yahoo.com
I'm not sure if it would be possible to synthesise, or if it would revert to an adamantane structure, but a 4 Carbon Tetrahedronically arranged molecule would have even greater bond strain. We did say above that bond strain didn't directly relate to delta-H(combustion) but that would still be an extremely reactive molecule.
Hows about tetranitrotetrahedrane? (having mental blackout on how to name polycyclics, and can't see how one would name this anyway, 1,2,2-tricyclo?). That would have to go somewhere on their 'strength tester' of how many bricks of steel it goes through when you blow it up.
Does this compound exist (I think it would be similar to the structure for white phosphorus?), and is it possible to make?
-Muttley
M.
Combat swimmers use "limpet" (attachable) mines to disable or destroy vessels. Some of these mines can be on the largish side, which is a Bad Thing when you've got to swim a long way to get to your target. If this new stuff translates into significantly more bang per unit mass and its manufacture can be cost-effective, this is a Good Thing (tm) except for the Bad Guys.
We already had a post about MP3.com being sued you retard...
I'd agree, actually.
For a couple of pages I worked up using Chime, see
The atomic orbitals page
Repr esentative proteins
To the poster who lamented that Chime isn't available for Linux. Nope, but the Rasmol source code is available- start porting. Chime is one of the major reasons I use NT on my workstation rather than Linux. (I'm not a good enough C programmer to do it, or I'd consider it.)
Eric
"Seven Deadly Sins? I thought it was a to-do list!"
Excuse me for my skepticism, but what practical applications does this new explosive have? Perhaps as a nuclear weapon imploder.
Does anyone predict high brisance for this explosive? I don't think it's going to have significantly more energy than the 1 kcal/g of most high explosives.
Contrast this with FAE (fuel-air explosives) with acetylene (12 kcal/g), propylene (12 kcal/g) or even ethylene oxide (7 kcal/g). Of course, getting a good air mixture isn't easy, and brisance isn't that high.
Antimatter containment is 100% feasable.
What you do is take your anti-proton, and then make a proton orbit it, in a manner exactly analogus to a conventional atom. They don't touch, so they do not anhilate. The anti-proton orbits at a radius much closer than that of the electron in hydrogen (due to it's much greater mass. In fact it's mor accurate to say that they orbit around a common centre of mass).
This configuration is stable, until you excite the system, to seperate the two constituents, and allow them to recombine. This is exactly analogus to the photoelectric effect, and can be done by application of electromagnetic radiation (I belive that it's somewhere in the ultraviolet range, all though it might need to be x-rays).
The system is pretty stable, as things go. Until made in bulk, it's impossable to say how stable, but predictions show that the rate of spontaneus decay is low enough to be a viable system of antimatter containment.
This as the nice advantage that all you need to do to liberate energy is irradiate it, and it presents no more containment problems than, say, tritium.
I belive that three (3) 'atoms' of this were made, although I can't find a reference on that. Problem is that in order to make it, you require to pass two streams, one matter, one anti matter past each other. The yield from this is exceptionally low.
Still, problem of containment, and ignition, has been solved. With this, in a system, it would be feasable to have a 1 mg antimatter bomb the size of your computer. If memory serves me correct, that's enough to destroy Earth.
Sweet dreams...
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But Charlie is no more.
What he thought was H2O
Was Octanitrocubane.
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Imagine: Kurt Cubane and a molecule that destroys itself. Hmmm... Is there some similarity here?
And sometimes it's a Cubane Cigar. Looks like the old exploding cigar prank is going to get a new lease on life.
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As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Well it's a bit cool ( and takes more than 8 hours). The blasted thing was hard to do to
Yes, sorry, but cubane is not an explosive. It has a lot of strain, so it is thermodynamically unstable, but kinetically it is unexpectedly stable. When you burn it it releases a fair amount of energy, but what makes an explosion is not the energy but the speed of the reaction. For example, the enthalpy of combustion of nitroglicerine is smaller than that of hexane, but nitroglicerine decomposes quite rapidly and generates a shock wave. The advantage of cubane is that it is denser than other hydrocarbons, so when you make octanitrocubane, which is an explosive, you should get more power per gram than with other explosives. But, as the article says, sadly the density of octanitrocubane was smaller than expected. Anyway, being 30% or whatever more powerful than other conventional explosives is still far, far, far, far, far away from nuclear explosives.
thank you! damn..
Could you not line a stamp with this 'compound' and have it go off at a lick? Very scary.....do this so my bank will do free online banking :) Another use? BB guns that would be made of this entirely....air to bb, bb to wall, wall to pieces. [flesh? ewww] NTGoodGuy out....... Yes....NT support, as I say 'to each his own'.
Wacked-Support NT
I'm a novice that this so don't go karma-whomping me if this question is shallow.
I'm interested in energy storage by chemical means. An example would be taking hydroelectric power in New Zealand (where it's really cheap) making compounds, shipping the compounds to the US, using the chemical energy to create electrical and selling the energy.
If I'm reading your comment correctly cubane would be the best shipping medium: most energy per mole (weight is actually more important) and most stable. Convertibility efficiency, shipping requirements and other factors affect this but its a start.
Such a system could put solar and wind energy right on the map as far as energy sources. Of course, who can beat hydrolysis and sending the hydrogen to market in a blimp?
So long and thanks for all the fish . . . !!!
Thanks man,
you saved me a ton of work (having ceased to work in chem, i sort of buried all my books)
any way, as a benchmark, picric acid and tnt both come in around 400-500 kj per mole... so if someone gets some comparasons, we have answers on power.
I was doing a chemistry project on Cubane. Due about a week ago. Could've really used this article back then. Ah, well. Still neat to see. Cubane's got more potential than just explosives. Various derivitives have properties that could be useful in fighting AIDs and cancer or building strong plastics.
-RickHunter
--"We are gray. We stand between the candle and the star."
--Gray council, Babylon 5.
I faked the whole thing.
Wow, what a lot of work for so little real point. You spent half an hour faking evidence and a couple of minutes swearing in German. Gee, I can see just how valuable this must be to you. And for what?
I did this to prove a point -- Slashdot moderators are complete morons that don't even bother to read before they moderate.
Oh, no! Sound the alarms! Some of the moderators must be *gasp* human!
Big whoopee. So your puny attempts at witty rebuttal failed the last couple of times, and this time you wanted to get even. To prove, ultimately, that humans are not as reliable as we'd like to be.
So what? No-one ever claimed that the moderation system wouldn't be without errors, or bias, or political chicanery (of which you've given us a perfect example). At worst, moderators just behave like every other ordinary person, believing what they're told because it's easier than disbelieving.
Your point seems to me to be similar to that russian 'wonderkid' who 'cracked' the distributed.net RC5 system to submit a huge number of bogus results. He successfully gave the distributed.net people weeks of hassles - to appear first on the scores (how terribly unimportant) and to 'crack' a system that was never designed to be 'secure' in the first place. It's like opening the door to someone's house and saying "look, a burglar can get through here!"
Ultimately, Slashdot cannot be a useful source of news and opinion without moderation. There's just simply too much bandwidth taken up with idiots banging on their own private joy-buttons posting garbage that no-one wants to read. I, and most other Slashdot readers, take the risk of bad moderation because the information that the non-bad moderation leaves us with is useful.
Fleischmann and Pons thought they'd invented Cold Fusion, too, and that's been a feature on Slashdot. If we wanted an authoritative journal, we'd buy "Nature". We come to Slashdot to listen to the speculation and opinions as much as to hear the facts. All you've done in your puny attempt at 'revolution' is to successfully point out the weaknesses in the system that everyone already knows about.
Congratulations, you've just proved how useless and redundant your point really is.
--Reason is a tool. Try to remember where you left it.--