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This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:40 pm
by HM-PuFFNSTuFF
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.
(happy guyblowki?)
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 3:45 pm
by bitWISE
Jesus. Does it give blow jobs too?
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:00 pm
by o'dium
Should have called it unobtainium...
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 4:06 pm
by bam!
Quantum Mazdinium
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:02 pm
by seremtan
...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!
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:16 pm
by 4days
awesome, just in time for their budgets to be slashed.
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:19 pm
by axbaby
Moore's Law states that Graphene will double in stator capacity every 2 years.
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 5:38 pm
by MKJ
how does this relate to guyblowki? :/
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:15 pm
by obsidian
and it is completely transparent
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 6:51 pm
by MKJ
^first thing i thought of as well. transparent aluminium
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 9:52 pm
by Captain
I just noticed griddla obsessed about me in this thread too
What an ugly, fat loser
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Tue Oct 05, 2010 10:51 pm
by andyman
"improve flat screen televisions"
fuck this shit. who gives a fuck about flat screen tvs???
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:01 am
by Scarface
they developed that just down the road from doombrain
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:10 am
by Dr_Watson
Scarface wrote:they developed that just down the road from doombrain
well, that explains why it's two dimensional and uniformly dense.
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 1:26 am
by Silicone_Milk
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.
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 8:31 am
by MKJ
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
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:39 pm
by seremtan
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
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 5:44 pm
by EtUL
that there's a funny joke
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 7:51 pm
by Don Carlos
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
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:28 pm
by Dr_Watson
probably the best nerd-joke I've ever dropped... should archive that one for posterity.
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 10:48 pm
by Scarface
n1
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Wed Oct 06, 2010 11:18 pm
by Survivor
Dr_Watson wrote:probably the best nerd-joke I've ever dropped... should archive that one for posterity.
It's a top of the line joke, but sadly a bit too specific to be put to general use
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Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:05 am
by Ryoki
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 12:27 am
by Tsakali
Re: This is why I'm not upgrading my computer just now...
Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2010 3:04 am
by andyman
Tsakali wrote:
flip phones.. meh...