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The World's Smallest Car

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the short-rides dept.

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!

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  1. Re:1ST P000ST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    RETARDED DIPSHIT?!1111

  2. POOPIE IN MY DOOPIE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    lick my ballsack

  3. It's perfect! by saskboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...Perfect for producing nano-toxins that is.

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  4. Mexicans by electrosoccertux · · Score: -1, Troll

    It could become very difficult to catch Mexicans crossing the boarders in these....I bet 10 could fit into one of these. A bag of these could hold the entire population of Mexico!

    I suggest an ammendment to the minimum wage rule. Get rid of minimum wage, pay these guys 25 cents per hour and give me my Big Mac Meal for 15 cents!

  5. Is this where tax money goes? by pollux_polex · · Score: 0, Troll

    What a relief it is to find that scientists are working so hard on making a teeny tiny car; I thought they might be spending their time trying to find a cure for cancer or some debilitating disease. *shudder*

  6. Gas by Lord_Dweomer · · Score: 1, Troll
    *sigh* And gas will STILL be too expensive...

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