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."

Comments

Re:Proof positive.

[Anonymous Coward]

I knew it!
Being american makes you a twunt. Oh, and that's football, you bloody septic.

Re:Proof positive.

[Dave2 Wickham]

woo, b3ta?

Re:"hazards and risks are poorly understood"

[Oliver Wendell Jones]

Actually it sounds like something from the RIAA or MPAA.

After all, all music and movies on CDs and DVDs are represented digitally by 1s and 0s. Inside a computer, these are represented by electrons, and since the Buckyballs are "stealing" electrons, they could therefore be used to "steal" music and/or movies. They must be stopped!

Someone alert the FBI and let them know that rampant Buckyballs are undermining our very way of life!