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World's Largest Nanotube Model

Posted by Zonk on from the better-than-a-ball-of-twine-i-guess dept.

darthpenguin writes "A group at Rice University has completed building the world's largest Nanotube model. Rice University is a leader in this revolutionary field involving nanotubes and buckyballs, which have the potential to revolutionize certain areas of science. The completed model, a full 360 meters in length, has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records."

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  1. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bet my giant miniature poodle would love to play on this thing. I hope it isn't so big that really big small aircraft might hit the side of it.

    1. Re:Great! by qewl · · Score: 2, Funny

      Whoa, whoa, whoa! You have a giant miniature poodle?? So do you get like the advantages of a big dog, like watchdog ability and not accidentally stepping on it, and the advantages of a small dog, like not eating as much and pooping less? Or is it just really small, and eats and shits extra all over the place?

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  2. Also on display... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... World's tallest Midget.

  3. Revolutionary Field? by mazarin5 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Rice University is a leader in this revolutionary field involving nanotubes

    The revolutionary field of making gigantic models? :)

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  4. Space Elevator Application? by tquinlan · · Score: 2, Funny

    If they can just build more of these things, and stack them on top of each other, they'll have made a space elevator, one that will be that much strong than one made of real nano-parcticles!

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  5. eww by fallendove · · Score: 1, Funny

    Tell these science nerds they can keep their nanotubes and buckyballs to themselves.

  6. Suddenly I don't feel so inadequate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    nanotubes and buckyballs

    I bet their wives tease them all the time.

    1. Re:Suddenly I don't feel so inadequate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It's not the size that counts, it's the motion of the matter waves...

  7. Picture Of The Inanimate Carbon Rod by Anti_Climax · · Score: 5, Funny
    Apparently they've posted an ASCII photo of the model to save bandwidth. I think I managed to get it before they site went down. It looks like this
    Fatal error: out of dynamic memory in yy_create_buffer() in Unknown on line 0
    I can't really tell how true to life it is though.
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  8. This beats the previous model... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...by 359.99999999 meters.

  9. Definition of Irony: Quadruple DD. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Think carbon fibre, materials made out of carbon nanotube mesh would be the strongest in existence..."

    One could make some serious bras out of that.

  10. To keep it from being boring... by orkysoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    To keep it from being boring, they put a tiny spaceship inside!

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  11. Poor Guy... by templest · · Score: 4, Funny
    buckyballs, ...a full 360 meters in length, has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records.
    I feel sorry for the dude. I mean, what can he do but wrap them around his waist...
    Oh, I thought... you know what, nevermind.
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  12. "a full 360 meters in length" by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, if just the model is 360m long, imagine how big an ACTUAL nanotube must be!

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  13. Re:Definition of Irony: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Or we could all be like Michael Moore and just EAT the starving children!

    Michael Moore... Wasn't he the guy who played Mr. Creosote in "The Meaning of Life"?

  14. Re:Space Elevator by orkysoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wow, you didn't even read the Slashdot Summary.

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  15. The Fast and the Curious by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Rice University? Don't they have better things to do, like put a coffee can exhaust and a spoiler on a Honda civic?

  16. Balls and Rods by iamlucky13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's pretty cool. I always wanted to build a nanotube (megatube?) with those silly ball and stick molecule kits you play with in intro chemistry, but they never come with more than 15 carbons. One time a bunch of my friends and I pooled together a couple kits and made a bucky-tube, but the teacher wasn't that impressed. He already knew we were nerds and was just worried about us getting the right number of carbons in each kit when we took it apart.

  17. Re:Guinness by ZorbaTHut · · Score: 3, Funny

    +1, World's Most Insightful Comment Regarding Both The Guinness Book Of World Records And Public Relations In A Negative Fashion

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