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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.
Another Roland Piquepaille junk science article gets ad clicks again. This is the 3rd in a week. No more subscription money from me Slashdot, you were warned. Hope he is worth losing 33 users for.
Just to let you know, I did not read your comment. Tht makes us even/
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact