I'm aware of being a week and a bit late. But damn. That's one amazing piece of carbon I'd like to see for real one day.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/scien ... 02504.html
Read it yourself though. I'm actually pretty curious what you guys are thinking about this stuff.
Vantablack
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Re: Vantablack
by Oranjui » July 24th, 2014, 10:59 am
I saw something about carbon nanotubes and got a little excited, like hey, maybe this is going to be a good method of making those. And then "he said it would be "very expensive" – the cost of the material is one of the things he was unable to reveal." So uh. Dunno what this could really be used for. I can only see it being useful in military technology (camo), but I would rather steer efforts of innovation away from that field.
But damn, that looks like it's a liquid. Maybe a pool of ink or something. But they crumpled it up supposedly. Wow.
But damn, that looks like it's a liquid. Maybe a pool of ink or something. But they crumpled it up supposedly. Wow.
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Re: Vantablack
by ~MP3 Amplifier~ » July 24th, 2014, 2:24 pm
Staring into that material feels like my eyes are being dragged into the screen...wait until it's used for something like hypnosis or illusions lol.
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Re: Vantablack
by Harmless » July 31st, 2014, 1:31 am
I wouldn't be surprised if this costed a lot, they must've done a load of compression to get that material to what it is.
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