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A Riff from the Mesoscale?
bethanie writes: "From the New York Times: 'Cornell University physicists reported they had used a
laser beam to pluck the strings of a tiny silicon guitar just 10 millionths of a meter long! Using the same kind of technology that etches the tiny wires and components onto computer chips, the researchers at Cornell's NanoScale Science and Technology Facility have also constructed a nanodrum from a crisscross diamond mesh and a nanoxylophone with tiny diamond bars. If nanomanufacturing comes of age, something as tiny as a nanodrum or nanoharp might be mass-produced for use as extremely sensitive detectors for ultra high-frequency waves. Scientists have recently demonstrated infinitesimal nanotube thermometers and nanobalances capable of weighing a single virus. All this may foreshadow a day when doctors use nanocapsules to carry medicines, a few molecules at a time, to precise locations in the body, and nanorobots to crawl through the bloodstream and repair cells.' Well, scientific advancements that can save humankind are all well and good, but the real question is: Did they play Stairway to Heaven?"
No, they played the latest Brittney Spears' song!!
No, they couldn't find the right Page
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this post was a link on FARK.com about a week ago.
Get some new material.
Alcohol & calculus don't mix. Never drink & derive.
for nanotech to become reality. That way we can become like the Borg with those nanoprobe things. You know, "You will be assimilated. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Resistance is futile." Then Gene Roddenberry and his writers will have had a semi-accurate prediction of the future.
The 9 Steps to Greased Up Yoda Doll Insertion, the Alpha-Jedi Technique
1) Defecate. Preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage and hot sauces.
2) Wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns.
3) Prime anus with anal ease.
4) Slather richly a considerable amount of Vaseline or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your yoda doll or yoda soap on a rope and liberally apply it.
5) Pucker your balloon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in
6) *NEW STEP* Put a nigger do-rag on Yoda Doll's head so the pointy ear that are like daggers dont lacerate the rectum. This was a very insightful addition to the repertoire by a kind fellow.
7) slowly rest yourself onto your yoda figurine
8) make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because that is built in.
9) gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Read slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you dont check the (desired - speaks english) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black And Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you cant afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who arent fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a yoda voice and saying, feel the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.
All in a days work with a yoda figurine rammed up your ass.
Greased Up Yoda Doll is My Lover
Written & composed by Greasedyoda Jackson
He was more like a beauty queen from a star wars movie scene
I said dont mind getting greased up, but what do you mean I am the one?
Who will grease up on the floor in the round
He said I am the one who will get greased up on the floor in the round
He told me his name was Greased up Yoda, as he caused a scene
Then every purple head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one
Who will grease up on the floor in the round
People always told me be careful of what you do
And dont go around breaking boys rectums
And mother always told me be careful of who you grease up and shove
And be careful of what you do [in the ass] ?cause the lie becomes the truth
Greased p Yoda is my lover
He's just a "girl" who claims that I am the one
But the kid is my greased up Yoda and my son
He says I am the one, but the kid is my greased up Yoda doll!
For forty days and forty nights
The law was on his side
But who can stand when hez in demand
His schemes and plans
cause we greased up on the floor in the round
So take my strong advice, just remember to always shove it up a greased ass twice
(do shove twice)
He told my baby, we where anally gyrating till 3:00
Then he looked at me, he showed me a photo
My anal lover cried, cause his anus wasnt as wide as mine
People always told me be careful of what you do
And dont go around shoving Greased Yoda Dolls in you ass!
He came and stood right up my ass.
Then the smell of sweet anal fumes
This happened much too soon
He called me to his room
Greased Up Yoda Doll is my lover
Hez just a doll who claims that I am the one
But the greasy anal remnants is my son
Greas
What's next? Tiny robotic bands? Crappy minute singers that call themselves Micro Bolton?
I'm scared for our future...
Goo goo g'joob.
Doing a napkin style calculation, and assuming normal guitar strings vibrate at 440 hz (which they do), and assuming the silicon has similar properties as the bronze (which it probably doesn't)
f*lambda = v (for waves)
a guitar is about 1.5m long, and the lowest standing wave has wavelength 2*l, or 3m, thus the velocity of the guitar string is about 1320 meters/sec. Assuming the silicon vibrates as the same speed, lambda is now 20 microns, so the frequency is about 60 MHz!
Maybe Superman's dog can hear that guitar play, but I sure can't.
(Maybe we can use it as the clock of some sort of embedded CPU- my 486 DX2 was about 60MHZ)
-Ryan
AUWYHSTOT (Acronyms are Useless When You Have to Spell Them Out Too)
Give me a nanoscale cowbell and bic lighter, and we can have a really tiny Blue Oyster Cult concert.
"[R]esearchers at Cornell's NanoScale Science and Technology Facility have... constructed a nanodrum.... All this may foreshadow a day when doctors use nanocapsules to carry medicines.... to precise locations in the body, and nanorobots to crawl through the bloodstream and repair cells."
"Mr. Jackson, we've finally discovered the cause of your tinnitus."
"Doc, you really've found out why my ears been ringing and I been so irritable all this last month?"
"Mr. Jackson, it appears that you've gotten a rock band lodged in your right ear. It's playing ads for the new Britney Spears come-back CD, "Oops, Grandma Did It Again (Saphic Style)"."
"Now Doc, howsa whole rock band playin' ads for some old rock star get in my ear? That don't make no sense."
"Science marches on, Mr. Jackson. It's a little thing called 'nano-tecnology'. You see, back in 2003, Cornell University made this little tiny drum and guitar set. Really tiny. And since then, well, let me explain, nano-hackers and spamers have marched on too...."
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
They played "Froggy went a courtin' he did ride c-c-c-c-c-c-crambone!", and when they broke a string they plucked it off of the nanocat.
I don't think I've ever read "nano" so many times in one sitting.
This statement is false.
Carbon nanotubes and the idea of using lasers to do work both hearken to another up-and-coming scientific advancement destined to save humankind: the Space Elevator!
> Nanoguitar, nanodrum, nanoharp...
Think of the spam!
Groupies DO care about the size of your instrument!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
The article tells us the frequency of vibration as well as the range of human hearing. NYT Science writing always uses these analogies. Would a NYT audience respond well to a headline:
pulsed YAG laser excites VHF phonons in etched Si crystal
Maybe they would if we put "nano" in the title a few more times
here's a link that works...
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/weekinreview/
I seem to remember a movie about this called "Inner Space". However, imdb.com doesn't list it, so it must have never existed. I smell a conspiracy!
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin