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Nanotubes Form The Darkest Material Yet Created

Posted by samzenpus on from the none-more-black dept.

toxcspdrmn writes "Bad news for Spinal Tap fans. The BBC reports that researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, have produced the darkest known material by manufacturing "forests" of carbon nanotubes. This forms a surface that absorbs or scatters 99.9% of all incidental light."

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  1. Don't tell John Carmack! by Zymergy · · Score: 5, Funny

    He will incorporate this new 'blackest' black into Doom 4.
    (and you just thought you saw all possible shades of black and brown in Doom 3!)

  2. Paint by milsoRgen · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait to paint my nerd den with this stuff... light be damned!

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    I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask where they're goin' and hook up with 'em later.
  3. I was going to ask... by Dr.+Cody · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...if anybody had found a picture of it. I'd see this article a few days ago and couldn't turn up anything.

    Unfortunately, posting on Slashdot provides me with the perspective to see how stupid a question it was.

  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. How much more black? by LaskoVortex · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's like, how much more black could this be? And the answer is none. None more black."

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    Just callin' it like I see it.
  6. Re:Oh wow - an darker shade of black... by Dr_SimonCPU · · Score: 5, Funny

    Isn't that an ACME portable hole?