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Quantum Wires
Silverlancer writes "Room temperature superconductors have often been a hallmark of far-future science fiction. But fortunately for us, they're here today, according to MIT's Technology Review. Richard Smalley, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize for the discovery of the buckyball, is currently heading a project to produce a prototype carbon nanotube superconductor. They've already produced some wires up to 100 meters long--the only thing left to do is figure out how to produce only a certain type of nanotube, the "5,5 armchair nanotube," that conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor."
I'm sure that in the next 5 minutes, the "5,5 armchair nanotube" will be criticized by the armchair physicists, the Slashdot equivalent of the armchair quarterback.
100 times stronger than a normal conductor, and able to carry a thousand volts in a sinlge bound!
That out the way, this is great news. There are so many useful scientific applications for superconducting wires that this is really cool news, once you get over the ethical dilemma caused by the fact that they are making them by *cloning* the orginals. It's ok to clone wires but not people? Hypocrites.
If a first post occurs via a quantum wire in an article when every bodies threshold is +1, did it really occur?
great! now i have something geekish to use for bondage with girls.
In short, not all new technologies will help bring about the worker paradise. Scientist and their capitalist pig ways!!! Soon the proletariat will rise and all you carbon nanotube superconductor makers will find yourselves up against a brick wall...
*bang!*
How about building a Stargate instead ? If that guy can build one in Carter's basement then I would imagine this future technology is way closer than we would imagine.
What I wouldn't give to live in her basement.
Superconducting wires are "here today", the only left to do is to make super conducting wires.
In other news, I am now a billionaire with a super model trophy wife. The only thing left is for me to get a lot of money and a hot wife.
The armchair nanotube is great for those lazy electrons who put up a lot of resistance to doing work.
So if that electron in your life is giving you heat about the pressure they are under this new product from LazyBoy is the perfect gift for them!
yes, but will the cloned carbon nanotubes have.....souls?
i doubt any work on this will be allowed by the current administration.
Know what I like about atheists? I've yet to meet one that believes God is on their side.
I think it will be some supoerposition of both technologies, but once you open the datacenter door, it will be one or the other. Oh, and watch out for the dead cat.
Someone's gotta find a way to break the $2000 mark for speaker cables that some arrogant ass will insist makes the whole sound experience worth it.
500GB of disk, 5TB of transfer, $5.95/mo
Will you do it? For me?
Zero-resistance is the holy grail of electrical systems. I really hope they can do it!
Of course they'll do it; after all, resistance is futile.
>I'd say this is ultraconductivity or similar
Hmmmm, once you solve the verbal equation, wouldn't ultraconductive-quasi-superconductors would just be "conductors"? It sounds to me like the marketing department has applied the standard "new and improved" hype to plain old conductors. Are they more, fresher, bigger and do they come with bonus points too?
They've already produced some wires up to 100 meters long--the only thing left to do is figure out how to produce only a certain type of nanotube, the "5,5 armchair nanotube," that conducts so well that it can be considered a superconductor."
Does the amount of conductivity depend on how you set the little lever on the side of the armchair?
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