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A Buckyegg Breaks Pentagon Rules
Roland Piquepaille writes "Chemists from Virginia and California have cooked a soup of fullerenes which produced an improbable buckyegg. The egg-shaped structure of their 'buckyballs' was a complete surprise for the researchers. In fact, they wanted to trap some atoms of terbium in a buckyball "to make compounds that could be both medically useful and well-tolerated in the body." And they obtained a buckyegg which both violates some chemistry laws and the FIFA soccer laws which were used until the last World Cup. Read more for additional references and a picture of this buckyegg carrying metal molecules."
> Don't tell the Pentagon, or those science guys will be in Guantanamo!
/rantoveryoumaymodmedownnow
Totally off topic, but I need to vent. I visited family last week, 3 states away. Got into a conversation with my parents' bush-supporting neighbours about the whole iraq business and got called a conspiracy theorist after mentioning Guantanamo Bay.
Not because of anything to do with what's happening there, but the neighbours genuinely didn't believe guantanamo existed.
Ignorance worries me.
You know, I read the article without noticing that it was yet another Roland article. At least I didn't go to his 'blog. And now after reading your comment I don't even feel like talking about the article anymore. Yay, fun times on /. . Your +5 Insightful is a community arrived at fsck you to Zonk despite his apparent lack of caring. Oh well I'm going to go browse somewhere else for a while.
Cheers.
Shh.
...Basically, the unholy trifecta which sucked the soul out of the original discovery made here. Bravo Slashdot, bravo.
Just to let you know, I did not read your comment. Tht makes us even/
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact