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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.
I knew it,
Soccer rots your brain.
A witty
the coroner performing the autopsy as Elmer Fud,
but with a really bad stutter,
dictating the procedure into a recorder.
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
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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> Hmmm... you don't see any commercial potential here?
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