Amped Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 Interesting blip on Popular Science's site: http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/artic...76853%2C00.html Should make for some interesting design possibilities in a number of fields! YF-21, here we come!!! Quote
Shmitty Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 AWESOME! Just think of all the possible applications! Quote
Hikuro Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 I remember a few years ago that a metal yet flexable substance was in the works to make Air Craft even survive re-entry from space. And I think even Macross was referenced as one of those "Sci/fi thrillers which represented this material" Quote
eugimon Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 very cool... erector actually has kits that have a bendable metal that will always resume it's original shape as long as you don't put a crease in it.... Quote
holytoledo69 Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 (edited) Thats kinda weird, if you guys have read anything about that roswell (UFO) crash during the 50's, it discribes a similar metal found at the crash site that have properties like that. Could it be it was developed using alien technology? Read it here: http://www.roswellproof.com/debris3_misc_metal.html Edited August 16, 2004 by holytoledo69 Quote
Zentrandude Posted August 16, 2004 Posted August 16, 2004 OMG: what do Mulder and Scully do? find another tv job? Quote
Hikuro Posted August 17, 2004 Posted August 17, 2004 Paging Paul Andersen, Paging Paul Andersen, your next bad script has fallen right on your lap! Quote
ayumisakura Posted August 17, 2004 Posted August 17, 2004 Wow, I'm in my materials science lab right now, and my TA has never even heard of this! It seems so cool, I wish my professor would let us buy some for "testing"...hahah Quote
Final Vegeta Posted August 17, 2004 Posted August 17, 2004 And has anyone here heard of carbon nanotubes? By theory the most resistant material possible, and also very light. No wonder in Macross someone uses hypercarbons. FV Quote
rocco_77 Posted August 17, 2004 Posted August 17, 2004 And has anyone here heard of carbon nanotubes? By theory the most resistant material possible, and also very light. No wonder in Macross someone uses hypercarbons. FV Cabon nanotubes will provide the means to create a great many things... For example... The Space industry has a group currently working on the creation of the "Space Elevator." Arthur C. Clark was quoted about 20 or so years ago saying; "the space elevator will be developed as a cost effective means of getting people and cargo into orbit about 10-15 years after people stop laughing at the idea." And at the very foundation of this invention is the carbon nanotube... They are projecting that if they can mass produce the nanotubes they can use them to construct the tether or "ribbon" needed to get from a ground based unit to a satellite base station in Geosynchronous orbit... Then a "crawler" would be used to climb the ribbon into space... This would reduce the cost of payload to orbit from $10,000 US per POUND to about $100 US per pound... Also.. And this is for all us computer geeks out there.... The nanotubes can be used as conduits in "Molecular" or "Quantum" computers... which are speculated to be not 1000 not 10,000 times faster than todays desktop, but ONE BILLION time faster than todays desktop... Of course development of such a computer is probably decades away, but there is speculation of something in the molecular range of computing sometime around 2050. Nanotubes rule. Quote
eugimon Posted August 17, 2004 Posted August 17, 2004 I don't want faster computers, I want software that doesn't suck. well, and faster computers. Quote
Gaijin Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 I wonder if this could somehow be used in swords. Think of the possibilities. Quote
skunkobot Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 I wonder if this could somehow be used in swords. Think of the possibilities. Uhm... you hit each other... and it doesn't hurt or cut??? Quote
MrDisco Posted August 19, 2004 Posted August 19, 2004 I wonder if this could somehow be used in swords. Think of the possibilities. we have them. its called Nerf Quote
Max Jenius Posted August 20, 2004 Posted August 20, 2004 I wonder if this could somehow be used in swords. Think of the possibilities. we have them. its called Nerf Yeah... explain yourself Gaijin! Quote
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