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New Material Harder Than Diamond
h4x0r-3l337 writes "Diamond is no longer the hardest substance known to man. Scientists have created a new material, called "aggregated diamond nanorods" by compressing carbon-60 under high heat. From the article: 'The hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond.'"
A butter knife made entirely out of THAT!
So I guess this is what she's going to want on her finger now.
So when are we going to see a General Products hull constructed out of this?
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BMO - Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Kzinti
Why'd you marry such shallow, pathetic women?
What -- you mean there's some other kind?
491 gigapascals.... Wow!!! WTF is a gigapascal?
:= 0 := giga + 1;
program gigapascal(output);
procedure WriteResponseHeader;
begin
writeln('content-type: text/html');
writeln
end;
begin
WriteResponseHeader;
writeln('[HTML]');
writeln('[HEAD]');
writeln('[TITLE]GigaPascal[/TITLE>');
writeln('[/HEAD]');
writeln('[BODY]');
giga
while [ i [less than] 1000000000 ] DO:
giga
writeln('[BIG] This is a Gigapascal! How the hell are you? [/BIG]');
endfor;
writeln('[/BODY]');
writeln('[/HTML]')
end.
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Any questions?
if their wives' rings costs $300:
a) your friends aren't rich
b) you can scratch up the rings with normal sandpaper
There's no way these guys can claim priority here. It completely stretches all notions of credulity. I mean, Superman has been transforming coal into diamonds with his bare hands for nearly 60 years now (first mention Action Comics #115; 1947). Together with his optical super-powers, in this case I'm of course referring to what is simplistically referred to as his "heat vision", it's clear that Superman could generate the required pressure and heat with almost no effort. He probably discovered this new diamond stuff by accident when he was like 8 or something. Jeez, I can't believe the crap that makes it through peer review these days.
I guess a pretty simple way to put it would be like this:
butter and ice cream are both essentially different forms of milk, but you don't see people walking around with cones full of butter do you?
If you do, that's pretty gross.
Just like driving a car:
(D) to go forward
(R) to go backward
Someone give this guy a wedgie. He remembers how to program in Pascal.
cat
> Why'd you marry such shallow, pathetic women?
What -- you mean there's some other kind?
I think the AC was suggesting that people should broaden their horizons.
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Wow, I didn't know Comic Book Guy lurked on Slashdot.....
Finally, I'll be able to drill into that 10ft diamond I found in the garden.
I'm sure there's gold in the center of it!
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
I'm not googling for "ultrahard" anything at work