The Blackest Material

QuantumCrypto writes "Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created 'the world's first material that reflects virtually no light.' This anti-reflection technology is based on nanomaterial and could lead to the development of more efficient solar cells, brighter LEDs, and 'smarter' light sources. In theory, if a room were to be coated with this material, switching on the lights would only illuminate the items in the room and not the walls, giving a sense of floating free in infinite space."

Outside

[Rie Beam]

"In theory, if a room were to be coated with this material, switching on the lights would only illuminate the items in the room and not the walls, giving a sense of floating free in infinite space."

Outside of that gravity thing. Sounds more like standing outside in the country.

Re:tsk

[HTH NE1]

As a Firehose user, I must say that it gets difficult to keep track of which dupe stories made it to the front page and which are just dupe submissions that have not yet made it to the front page. Despite the distinctive color, the mass of submissions become a blur.

Re:#GGGGGG

[dr_dank]

It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.

Automated Dup Rating Score Would Help...

[Ron Bennett]

Often dups will contain similar links, phrases, keywords, etc to the originally posted article ... it seems to me that an automated system could be developed that would assign a "dup rating" score to submitted articles to make dups easier to spot beforehand.

Ron

Re:Is this a record?

[Dun Malg]

You just duped a story from three days ago. Do you guys even read your own site?

Of course not. They're not actually editors. They're not even nerds. They're a bunch of dumbfuck kids left in charge of what was once an interesting message board. It's not just the Slashvertisements, astroturf articles, and just plain un-nerdy, non-mattering stuff. Have you seen the idiotic poll questions lately? How about the current poll? What kind of true nerd asks "What is your favorite test" and fails to include two of the three grand-daddy nerd tests of all? They got Turing, but that's the obvious one. They missed Kobayashi Maru [wikipedia.org] and Voight-Kampff [wikipedia.org], fer bog's sake! Obviously, they're simpleminded pretenders of the most detestable sort--- the kind that pretend for money.

Doesn't matter anyway. This place has been ruined by trolls and morons already.

Re:Military Death Ray Applications?

[Dun Malg]

Yeah, and (like) imagine if we all had flying guitars we could ride around on, and they'd (like) play themselves, and we'd be famous rock stars too!

Seriously, man, we're you actually going anywhere with that crowd control shield thing? Andwhy here?

Re:Outside

[DJ Nanashi]

No no, it's Emo now, not goth.

Re:Possible uses for the military?

[Dun Malg]

My God, please mod this insightful. Snide, yes, AC, yes, but a completely valid point.

Valid? Sure-- about as valid as "if frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass a-hoppin'"

He pointed out the obvious and then did nothing with it. Hardly insightful.

Re:Outside

[Joebert]

What happened to the good old days when it was "pussy" & everyone knew what you meant ?