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New Carbon-based Paper Stronger Than Nanotubes
LynnwoodRooster writes "Science Magazine reports that a group from Northwestern University in Illinois has a new process for creating carbon-based paper that's stronger than nanotubes, and incredibly easy to use to make sheets of any desired sizes. Huge implications for aircraft, automobiles, and the ever-sought-after space elevator?"
I doubt it. From what I've read, they have to be quite old, and/or be a unique model in order to get much more worth out of it than the annoyance cost of storage. Also, marginally common models can lack value unless they're cleaned and readjusted.
I've got a few typewriters sitting around, but they're rather common models. Even the interesting and antique-looking Royal Portable, I found, was produced for a wide range of years (mine comes, IIRC, from the late '30s or early '40s) and has little collectible value. If it's anything with plastic on it, forget it. Aside from simple packrattishness, I use them, along with old paper from estate sales, for artistically authentic old documents and letters. The biggest problem doing this? I've lived in the computer age too long. I can't write legible flowing cursive worth a damn. I really ought to self-teach or take a class on calligraphy.
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For all those feeling left out, Read or Die is my favorite anime/manga series. Coming in a close second is Scryed. If you have -any- interest in manga or anime, you owe it to yourself to check these 2 out. (Get the OVA of ROD first if you're snagging the anime. The TV series isn't quite as good.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_or_Die
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scryed
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