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World's Largest Nanotube Model
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."
A group at Rice University has completed building the world's largest Nanotube model.
Someone ought to call the kids over at Rice University and let them know they're working in the wrong direction....the whole point of nanotubes is that they're supposed to be small.
Seriously, though, shouldn't these kids be working on something other than trying to get into the Book of Records? Like, perhaps, doing work with actual nanotubes?
The completed model, a full 360 meters in length, has been accepted by the Guinness Book of World Records.
Wow...what's the category? World's Biggest Waste of Time ?
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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.
Isn't this an oxymoron? Enough for the first post
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... World's tallest Midget.
The revolutionary field of making gigantic models? :)
Fnord.
Any remember when a GWR actually MEANT something? Now seems like they'll give a record to any borderline unique PR stunt...
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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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It's just about pulling together as chemistry geeks. Most of the world's monuments were largely about this. Partially the local religion, but mostly "look at this fucking thing we built."
That's a valuable thing in and of itself. The actual thing doesn't have to then be useful.
You could suggest they do a charity instead, but that wouldn't necessarily pull them together. You can't just force people to enjoy the same charity.
You might want to look at what human beings are like sometime.
They never meant anything. You were just young. There are comics going back to the 60s about people making the world's largest noodle stack to get in the book. It's always been ridiculous.
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nanotubes and buckyballs
I bet their wives tease them all the time.
Even people that believe in pre-destiny look both ways before crossing the street.
...by 359.99999999 meters.
To keep it from being boring, they put a tiny spaceship inside!
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
Oh, I thought... you know what, nevermind.
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Wow, if just the model is 360m long, imagine how big an ACTUAL nanotube must be!
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
Most schools use their sports programs to get positive PR. Rice is doing their PR off of some very solid and useful research that happened on campus. Got a problem with that?
Wow, you didn't even read the Slashdot Summary.
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
The site's fried, but Rice University has an image of it (along with some guy's head) on their front page.
http://www.rice.edu/nanotube04222005.jpg
ok. In all honesty -- it really wasn't that big of a
waste of time. We (the students -- undergrad
students who don't have the knowledge of doing
this sort of research) were asked by the coordinators to sign up to build the tube.
Mind you, we did this on a Friday when most of us don't
work hard anyways (especially those silly Academs).
OK. Admittedly, I did not partake in these festivities as I was busy with other more important things,
but for the people who had the time to do it, I'm sure
it was a bonding experience and I'm sure they had a blast. Plus they got free t-shirts...yum.
Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the Bomb...
Rice University? Don't they have better things to do, like put a coffee can exhaust and a spoiler on a Honda civic?
No, no, no. They'd make the world's largest model of the world's smallest joint. Sheeesh.
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.
The Nobel prize is largely without credibility anyomre becuase of all the political extremism of the Nobel committiee.
That may be an issue with the Peace prize or even the Economics prize, but I've never heard of somebody accuse the Nobel Prize in Chemistry as being politically extreme.