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Buckypaper — Out of the Lab, Into the Market
doomsdaywire writes "Buckypaper isn't exactly news to anyone here. However, this article quotes Ben Wang, director of Florida State's High-Performance Materials Institute, saying, 'Our plan is perhaps in the next 12 months we'll begin maybe to have some commercial products.' The article continues: '"If this thing goes into production, this very well could be a very, very game-changing or revolutionary technology to the aerospace business," said Les Kramer, chief technologist for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, which is helping fund the Florida State research. ... The long-range goal is to build planes, automobiles and other things with buckypaper composites. The military also is looking at it for use in armor plating and stealth technology.'"
My plan is perhaps in the next 12 months I'll begin maybe to believe this is something more than vaporware.
If a sphere that looks like a geodesic dome is bucminsterfullerine, then a tube that looks like a roll of fake PVC tiling should be called polybathroomfloorine. Except James Blish used that for a graphite-like chemical explosive already.
According to the article, buckypaper "conducts electricity like copper or silicon." So it's either a conductor or an insulator.
The article smells like roses or shit.
OK, guys it's Friday, so lay off the Troll moderation, but picture this:
"Hello, I'm Dick Smalley, and I specialize in production of small things!"
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It's also a great way to acquire distant territory to which you ship off excess kids.
Exactly. It's like carbon fiber, except electrically conductive and much, much stronger, and contains 50% or more actual carbon instead of the 1-5% that carbon fiber compositions currently contain (from TFA).
So, pretty much not like carbon fiber at all except that it contains carbon.
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From that link:
"These guys have actually demonstrated materials that are capable of being used on flying systems," said Adams, director of Rice's Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology. "Having something that you can hold in your hand is an accomplishment in nanotechnology."
I don't know about that, I'd say they're doing nanotechnology wrong if you can hold it in your hand and see it.
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There is an unusual set of warnings being distributed with Buckypaper:
Caution: Buckypaper may suddenly accelerate to dangerous speeds.
Buckypaper contains a liquid core, which, if exposed due to rupture, should not be touched, inhaled, or looked at.
Do not use Buckypaper on concrete.
Discontinue use of Buckypaper if any of the following occurs:
If Buckypaper begins to smoke, get away immediately. Seek shelter and cover head.
Buckypaper may stick to certain types of skin.
When not in use, Buckypaper should be returned to its special container and kept under refrigeration. Failure to do so relieves the makers of Buckypaper, Wacky Products Incorporated, and its namesake, Buckminster Fuller, of any and all liability.
Ingredients of Buckypaper include an unknown glowing green substance which fell to Earth, presumably from outer space.
Buckypaper has been shipped to our troops in Saudi Arabia and is being dropped by our warplanes on Iraq.
Do not taunt Buckypaper.
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Nothing could beat complete denial
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One of he tenants of modern science is considering consequences instead of embracing every seeming discovery as immediately applicable as a solution. You might want to get out of the mud.
One of the tenants of modern science is a real dick. Not only has he failed to pay his rent on time once this year, but he doesn't do jack shit to keep the place clean. It's a filthy mess. Modern science should just evict his ass.