Carbon Magnets At Room Temperature 213
Bolie writes: "Trying to make high temperature super conductors yielded an unexpected result. The pure carbon bucky ball material was put under pressure to make sheets. That worked. Picture microscopic bubble pack. But the result was a sheet that was magnetic at room temperature. It has not escaped the attention of the discoverer, Tatiana Makarova, that this might be useful for a non-metallic computer memory. The material is also lighter than metals, flexible and transparent. Lasers anyone?"
Transparent? (Score:5, Funny)
Why we will never see it come to market... (Score:4, Funny)
Also, Makarova's material is flexible and transparent, properties that could make it useful for storing data when a laser is used to record on it. It might also be possible to record data at unprecedented densities.
Man, this is really going to piss off Hillary Rosen...
Re:Why the exotic ideas? (Score:2, Funny)
Because his is Slashdot. There's no one here except computer geeks. If you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
Forget about Laser Memory.... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:minus signs (Score:2, Funny)
Picture microscopic bubble pack... (Score:4, Funny)
The shape of a bucky ball... (Score:4, Funny)
I figure most geeks on slashdot already know what a buckyball looks like; just in case, for the U.S. readers, this means soccerball-shaped...
Re:Forget about Laser Memory.... (Score:3, Funny)
And when we stick the shopping list on the fridge with our imac-coloured see-through magnets, we can tell our kids of the time when magnets had were all made of metal, and they'll look at us funny like we're older than god. I can see it now....
Re:Carbon chemistry (Score:5, Funny)
Data: No
Picard: Is it a silicon-based life form?
Data: No
Picard: Is it a germanium-based life form?
Data: No
Picard: Neon?
Data: No
Picard: Uranium?
Data: You're just guessing, aren't you?
Re:wrong (Score:1, Funny)
But he did write 253.15. Or maybe you are using IE 5.5, which occasionnally displays a seven and sixes as fives. This feature is supposed to only kick in when displaying prices of Microsoft server software in order to make them look friendlier, but apparently, here it misfired...