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http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/06/scien ... ml?_r=1&hp
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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Jesus. Does it give blow jobs too?
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Should have called it unobtainium...
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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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awesome, just in time for their budgets to be slashed.
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Moore's Law states that Graphene will double in stator capacity every 2 years.
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how does this relate to guyblowki? :/
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and it is completely transparent
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^first thing i thought of as well. transparent aluminium :up:
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I just noticed griddla obsessed about me in this thread too :olo:

What an ugly, fat loser :olo:
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"improve flat screen televisions"


fuck this shit. who gives a fuck about flat screen tvs???
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they developed that just down the road from doombrain
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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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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.
:olo:
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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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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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that there's a funny joke
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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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Where were you when the West was defeated?
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probably the best nerd-joke I've ever dropped... should archive that one for posterity. :D
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n1 :olo:
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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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:olo:
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:up:
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Tsakali wrote::up:
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