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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 07:40 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/scien ... ml?_r=1&hp

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Graphene is a form of carbon in which the atoms are arranged in a flat hexagon lattice like microscopic chicken wire, a single atom thick. It is not only the thinnest material in the world, but also the strongest: a sheet of it stretched over a coffee cup could support the weight of a truck bearing down on a pencil point.

Among its other properties, graphene is able to conduct electricity and heat better than any other known material, and it is completely transparent. Physicists say that eventually it could rival silicon as a basis for computer chips, serve as a sensitive pollution-monitoring material, improve flat screen televisions, and enable the creation of new materials and novel tests of quantum weirdness, among other things.


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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 07:45 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Jesus. Does it give blow jobs too?
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o'dium
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 08:00 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Should have called it unobtainium...
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 08:06 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Quantum Mazdinium



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seremtan
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 09:02 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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...a sheet of it stretched over a coffee cup could support the weight of a truck bearing down on a pencil point...


whoa. space elevators ahoy!
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 09:16 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


awesome, just in time for their budgets to be slashed.
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 09:19 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Moore's Law states that Graphene will double in stator capacity every 2 years.



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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 09:38 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


how does this relate to guyblowki? :/
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 10:15 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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and it is completely transparent


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MKJ
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 10:51 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


^first thing i thought of as well. transparent aluminium :up:
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 01:52 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


I just noticed griddla obsessed about me in this thread too :olo:

What an ugly, fat loser :olo:



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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 02:51 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


"improve flat screen televisions"


fuck this shit. who gives a fuck about flat screen tvs???
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 05:01 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


they developed that just down the road from doombrain
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Dr_Watson
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 05:10 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Scarface wrote:
they developed that just down the road from doombrain


well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.
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PostPosted: 10-05-2010 05:26 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
Scarface wrote:
they developed that just down the road from doombrain


well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.

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MKJ
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 12:31 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
Scarface wrote:
they developed that just down the road from doombrain


well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.

im sorry db, but fucking lol
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seremtan
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 09:39 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
Scarface wrote:
they developed that just down the road from doombrain


well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.


roflburgers
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 09:44 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


that there's a funny joke
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 11:51 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
Scarface wrote:
they developed that just down the road from doombrain


well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.


Sorry Doomy

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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 02:28 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


probably the best nerd-joke I've ever dropped... should archive that one for posterity. :D
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 02:48 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


n1 :olo:
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 03:18 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Dr_Watson wrote:
probably the best nerd-joke I've ever dropped... should archive that one for posterity. :D


It's a top of the line joke, but sadly a bit too specific to be put to general use :(.
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 04:05 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:olo:



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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 04:27 PM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


:up:
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andyman
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PostPosted: 10-06-2010 07:04 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Tsakali wrote:
:up:
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flip phones.. meh...
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PostPosted: 10-07-2010 03:03 AM           Profile Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


roflmao @ Dimbrain
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