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The World's Smallest Car
starexplorer writes "Start your Nano-engines? LiveScience.com is reporting that researchers at Rice University have designed the world's smallest car that is no more than 4 nanometers across. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs. Why do it? The team wants to build a fleet of nanotrucks to carry atoms and molecules around minature factories." So it's not exactly self-powered, but it rolls. It's a start!
Sorry I'm late coming home, honey. I lost the car again.
And yet it still holds 10 clowns! Go figure.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
is this a perfect solution for men that have really large reproductive organs?
So how does this redefine the phrase COMPACT CAR?
Ignore Alien Orders
for the small people that helped make such a thing possible
Speaking of rice, where can you get Type-R stickers and spinning rims that small?
...making a really small Midas muffler shop.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
How many microns/nanogram does it get?
Burn Hollywood Burn
Till they add an SUV to the lineup.
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
I can see the science team going to the board of directors:
BoD: What's the problem?
Scientists: Well, we need to be able to move atoms and molecules around in precise ways.
BoD: How can we help?
Scientists: We need some funding to build little, tiny trucks to carry them around in.
[long pause]
BoD: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! No really guys, what did you need?
Hell, no. I feel like a giant super man that can pick up a million cars with his bare hands, and knock over thousands of cars with a breath. How the hell is that humbling?
Pimp my nano car.
Here's a pic:
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I hope they don't make the same mistake Ford made, and only offer it in black.
-AC
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain
See, this is the problem with nanotechnology. No matter what great advances you make, there are always so many people who just want to split hairs.
*ba-dum-dum-pshh*
It is so typical that when developing the industrial nano-cities of the future they chose to develop nano-cars instead of a sensible atomic mass transit system. If this policy continues the consumption of nano-gas will raise nano-oil prices so high that soon we will have to invade nano-arabia. I for one will continue to endorse nano-carpooling and the use of nano-bikes whenever possible,
Bah, that's nothing. Wake me up when they make a little blue dune buggy.