New Material Harder Than Diamond 450
h4x0r-3l337 writes "Diamond is no longer the hardest substance known to man. Scientists have created a new material, called "aggregated diamond nanorods" by compressing carbon-60 under high heat. From the article: 'The hardness of a material is measured by its isothermal bulk modulus. Aggregated diamond nanorods have a modulus of 491 gigapascals (GPa), compared with 442 GPa for conventional diamond.'"
hmmm (Score:1, Funny)
WTF is a gigapascal?
I want... (Score:5, Funny)
Ring (Score:5, Funny)
General Products? (Score:5, Funny)
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BMO - Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of Kzinti
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
20% harder, via^H^H^H carbon! (Score:3, Funny)
Enhance your carbon based member now! EXRNZ
Impressive results, you'll be the hardest she's ever seen! Become the new hard you.
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You cant talk about anything around here without someone thinking about it sexually
Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv (Score:5, Funny)
What -- you mean there's some other kind?
Hmm (Score:3, Funny)
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
program gigapascal(output);
procedure WriteResponseHeader;
begin
writeln('content-type: text/html');
writeln
end;
begin
WriteResponseHeader;
writeln('[HTML]');
writeln('[HEAD]');
writeln('[TITLE]GigaPascal[/TITLE>');
writeln('[/HEAD]');
writeln('[BODY]');
giga
while [ i [less than] 1000000000 ] DO:
giga
writeln('[BIG] This is a Gigapascal! How the hell are you? [/BIG]');
endfor;
writeln('[/BODY]');
writeln('[/HTML]')
end.
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Any questions?
Now's the time. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Ring (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sabotage (Score:5, Funny)
a) your friends aren't rich
b) you can scratch up the rings with normal sandpaper
Discovery? No way. (Score:5, Funny)
nuh uh (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Diamonds =/= Diamonds? (Score:5, Funny)
butter and ice cream are both essentially different forms of milk, but you don't see people walking around with cones full of butter do you?
If you do, that's pretty gross.
Re:hmmm (Score:5, Funny)
LIES! NO GOATSE LINK! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Ring (Score:2, Funny)
Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv (Score:5, Funny)
What -- you mean there's some other kind?
I think the AC was suggesting that people should broaden their horizons. [wikipedia.org]
Re:Discovery? No way. (Score:5, Funny)
Wow, I didn't know Comic Book Guy lurked on Slashdot.....
Re:Ring (Score:3, Funny)
Yep, the harder the rock, the harder the punch. Girls are so smart =), thats why we love em!
You love girls? That's gay!
Re:Stability? (Score:5, Funny)
But actually, nobody would remember that, cause it's stupid.
One Use (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure there's gold in the center of it!
Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv (Score:4, Funny)
/pro
Re:To all the posters making jokes about thier wiv (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Stability? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Possible uses? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What is it about carbon? (Score:3, Funny)
So on the Moh's scale of hardness... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Discovery? No way. (Score:5, Funny)
One word (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Diamonds =/= Diamonds? (Score:2, Funny)
Terrible story... (Score:1, Funny)
Geez. I usually don't complain about the editors, but...
We already do that. (Score:5, Funny)
We've been doing that for years. It's called "carpentry" and it uses these cool bio-tech machines called "trees" to convert atomospheric carbon and water into complex hydrocarbon structures known as "wood".
You have to have a source of trace minerals (typically through a "ground" or "earth" connection) but the majority of the created structures are built from atmospheric carbon and hydrogen from water. The created material is incredibly useful and can be formed with little effort using commonly available tools.
Oh, and the best part is, the process is entirely solar-powered. There's a little reverse carbon leakage when solar energy is not available (a condition we call "night") but it's negligible.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Re:One word (Score:2, Funny)
TERRORIST! (Score:5, Funny)
You TERRORIST! Won't anyone please think of the children?
Re:Ring (Score:5, Funny)
Re:hmmm (Score:1, Funny)
Re:TERRORIST! (Score:1, Funny)
You TERRORIST! Won't anyone please think of the children?
Yes. About that. Which side of them is it best to put the butter on.