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Buckyballs Kill Fish
An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post (free registration, not too invasive) has a disturbing article on a new study of the environmental dangers of nanotech. Buckyballs caused "severe" brain damage in largemouth bass when added to their aquariums in concentrations of 0.5 ppm, a concentration level on par with common US pollutants. They also caused die-offs of Daphnia, waterfleas that are a crucial part of the ocean food chain. "The new findings are somewhat surprising because many scientists had predicted that buckyballs would not linger in water but would quickly form clumps and sink." The findings have yet to be peer-reviewed."
Well, we're all going to die anyway.
But, if I had my choice in the matter, I'd want to die by the hands of something cool enough to be named buckyballs.
Imagine the death certificate. CAUSE: Buckyballs.
Imagine the eulogy. "It's so sad that he was taken from us so soon by buckyballs..."
Yeah, so, you still don't want buckyballs to kill you?
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
The buckyballs aren't getting into the fish and casuing brain damage, this is all a coverup for the escape of a very dangerous nanotechnology. Millions of nanobots are playing dodgeball with these buckyballs...sometimes the fish get in the way, and BAM, brain damage.
Blueballs kill geeks, so I'm not feeling real sorry for the fish at this time.
Just another day in Paradise
I knew it,
Soccer rots your brain.
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buckyballs can also steal electrons from surrounding molecules -- a process known as oxidation
So, this process of 'stealing' is referred to as 'oxidation'.
Sounds like a Microsoft buzzword, always covering over some form of villainy with a word that makes it sound less harmful - such as 'Integrated Computing'.
(Sorry, had to slip that one in. Go ahead, call me a troll. DAMN! It was worth it!)
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Some of the fish died, others heavily mutated. Here's a picture of the mutated fish.
Underholdning.info
Bucky's, of course.
the coroner performing the autopsy as Elmer Fud,
but with a really bad stutter,
dictating the procedure into a recorder.
A way to create my ill tempered mutated sea bass!
"But AFAIK no brain damage from diamond has been reported."
Except, perhaps, in women?
At last, we have found a way to make Billy largemouth bass fish shut up for good...
É que os desafinados também têm um coração
Ummm ... :)
You have a girlfriend?
If you do, take her to a jewlers
Show her the diamonds
Watch her IQ drop like a stone
'Do you have Buckyballs?' 'No, it's just the way I walk.'
...the mechanism they use to clump up is to bond with organic compounds, particularly fish brains.
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.
Buckyballs are large, inflatable substitutes for banisters and cheese-boards. Traditionally carved out of frozen nougat, they are known to cause jealousy in lab rats.
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
I have heard that another carbon arrangement, known as diamond, is a pretty toxic chemical that affects the brain of many female homo sapien. It is also known to be additive.
Strangely, this material seems to have little effect on male home sapien, although the lack of it seems to affect the reproductive potential of that subspecies.
... Where it clearly states:
Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Do not taunt aqueous buckyball!!
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Please don't remind me that mg = 1E-3 g. I probably screwed up the math. That's what I get for doing it at 5am. Let's see... I assumed a 10g mouse and a 70kg me. (0.0005g/10g)*70000g = 3.5g. So I was off by two (?!) orders of magnitude, since last time I ended up with 350g. Thus, I have mathematically proven that I am a dumbass.
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This study was not needed.
The science is settled.
The consensus in the scientific world already decided that buckyballs sink.
Because the study has not yet been examined by peers in the scientific world, this can not be happening.
Scientists already decided buckyballs are safe.
There is no need to expend the effort in getting some of this "water" material and actually test it.
Because the results of buckyballs in water are already known, something must be wrong with this experiment.
Science is always right, this must be part of a smear campaign organized by opponents to science.
Obviously, the fish must have conspired to try to show science is wrong.
The fish must have pretended to have brain damage or caused the damage as part of the plot.
Stupid fish.
And how, pray tell, are you going to shrink an atom?
" Speak for yourself. I wuld rather NOT die of brain-damage"
Well, you've got the brain damage part taken care of...
If you do...
you must be new around here
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In order to play it safe, you should avoid eating anything with carbon in it.
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> Hmmm... you don't see any commercial potential here?
"Daddy, I hate fishing with hook and line! It's boring!"
"Sorry, Junior, you remember what happened the last time we tried dynamite. You can use a rod and reel all day, and worms are free. Dynamite's expensive - and you only get to use it once."
"Daddy, you suck!"
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How does someone diagnose "severe brain damage" in bass? Do they flop in a flamenco rhythm when pulled out of water? Do they play hooky from the rest of the school?
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For the last time - It's not stealing, it's copyright infringement!