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Buckyballs Kill Fish

Posted by Hemos on from the dealing-with-the-dangers dept.

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."

10 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. WOW by robbyjo · · Score: -1, Troll

    That must be a powerful ball! Whose ball is it? ;)

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  2. Re:First posts kill fish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    zzzz

  3. Re:First posts kill fish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yyyy

  4. Re:What is a buckyball? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    but you didn't get modded up, lorf

  5. I hate you, faggot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You wasted like 10 seconds of my life with that bullshit. I wish I could kill you.

  6. Re:Proof positive. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

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

  7. Re:Proof positive. by Dave2+Wickham · · Score: 0, Troll

    woo, b3ta?

  8. Re:Proof positive. by Rothron+the+Wise · · Score: -1, Troll

    Being american makes you a twunt.

    Way to assume, nobrains.

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  9. Re:"hazards and risks are poorly understood" by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 0, Troll

    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!

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  10. Nurse,nurse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Parent is obviously off his medication.