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Rice Contracted to Provide NASA's Quantum Wire

Posted by timothy on from the soon-will-be-in-vending-machines-for-a-nickel dept.

geekman writes "NASA is paying Rice University $11 million to build a prototype quantum wire that can conduct electricity 10 times better than traditional copper cables at one-sixth the weight. Rice has four years to build a one-meter-long quantum wire, which will be made out of carbon nanotubes. Seems like a lot of money for a little wire, but then again, all the rocket scientists at Los Alamos have only ever been able to put together a four-centimeter nanotube."

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  1. Re:The real question is.. by B3ryllium · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ... and the cat gets stuck bouncing through time in other people's bodies, until it finally lands a dreary part in a sad series based on a humdrum spinoff premise?

    With a horrible theme song that sounds like someone strangling Scott Bakula?

    It's Backwards Universe! Where all cats are Scott Backula, and all Jonathan Archers are Cats!

    All your base are belong to us.