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Sapphire: A Liquid That Won't Get Things Wet

Posted by timothy on from the it-tastes-different-though dept.

eaglebtc writes "Tuesday on Good Morning America, a representative from Tyco Fire & Security demonstrated an amazing new substance called Sapphire: a water-like fluid that does not get things wet. He filled a small fish tank with Sapphire and submerged a book, a laptop, and a flat panel TV. Both electronics were turned on when submerged; all three items came out completely unharmed. Click here for a slideshow of the demonstration. The official name for Sapphire is actually Novec 1230. Read about it here (PDF). Tyco sees practical applications of Sapphire in fire extinguisher systems for museums and libraries. By the same token of practicality, regular readers of Slashdot probably have something else in mind: total-immersion watercooling. Just think of the possibilities!"

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  1. Jews! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Jews!

  2. FAQ on the new substance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Spacker.net did a good synopsis of this Sapphire substance. Their article can be found here.

    1. Re:FAQ on the new substance by qualico · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I feel sick.

      Help!

    2. Re:FAQ on the new substance by Paul+d'Aoust · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      you cruel, heartless person.

      No, wait. If you were truly heartless, you'd make pop-overs and -unders that all showed those hideous pictures and screamed that inane alarm.

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    3. Re:FAQ on the new substance by DjMd · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Ugh I agree.... Damn fake FAQ troll.
      Anyone surfing at -1 DO NOT follow the parent/parent link.. not at work anyways, it's bad (and loud!)

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    4. Re:FAQ on the new substance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Uh, we DO. did you mouse-over the little button that says "CLICK ME"? Maybe you should file a bug report.

    5. Re:FAQ on the new substance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      So what is the pic on the site? I'll click when I get home cuz I like seeing weird stuff but I'm dying of curiosity! Is it the goatse anus? Something worse?

    6. Re:FAQ on the new substance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's called Last Measure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Measure

      Thxbye

  3. WARNING! by boisepunk · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Parent is goatse link! DO NOT CLICK!

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    1. Re:WARNING! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      YOU ASSTARD. IT WAS AT -1 YOU FUCKING NIGGER!

      other people's co mmeother people's commeother peop le's co mmeother other people's commeother people's comme other people's commeother people's commeother people 's comme other people's commeother people' s comme other people's commeother people's commeot he r p eople's commeother people's commeother people's commeother people's c ommeother people's commeother pe ople's commeother people's commeother people's com mepeople's comme

  4. Off topic, so mod me down if you must, but..... by Kulaid982 · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    The first thing I thought of when I saw "Sapphire" was "HOLY SHIT, that's what our dumbass DBA assigned as the..." wait, can I get fired for this? Anyway, I had to fix some stupid macro in Excel one day, and the first chunk of the macro was a connection string to our SQL Server machine. Right there, in plain text, for all to see, was the sa password.

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  5. Re:Cleanup of Sapphire/water? by DR+SoB · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nope, all you have to do is sit your fat ass on it, and since your fat ass defies all logic of quantum physics, it will soak up that crap.

    BTW- What's up James? :D

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  6. Re:Misleading Sig (was Re:"Water"-cooling) by egarland · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Support our troops: Elect a responsible president!
    I agree with this part. Bush should be re-elected. A President Gore would have been disasterous after 9/11. We would still be negotiating with the Taliban over Al Queda. That would be the height of irresponsibility!

    That's what makes that comment so fun. It's true no matter what side you are on. Most people don't think Bush has been responsible with the lives of american troups though. A lot of dedicated patriotic people join the military to defend their country. We owe it to them to not elect someone who will get so many of them killed for so little.

    Unless you die soon, Bush raised your taxes! You must have a crappy accountant. I'm middle income, married, filing jointly and my taxes are down this year.

    If you increase spending you are either increasing taxes now or later since all spending is paid for by taxes. Since he didn't increase them now, he essentially increased them later.

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  7. Re:"Water"-cooling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oops, but you forgot to post it as AC. But anyway:

    "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect."

  8. Implications for mating? by fzammett · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Now, if they could just find a way through some sort of bizarre gene therapy maybe to make male ejaculation fluids based on this stuff, my bed sheets would thank the scientific community!

    (Stop looking so disgusted, you were thinking it too!)

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