Oct 27 2008Waves Of The Future: Internet, Buckypaper
Call me crazy, but I think this whole internet thing is really gonna take off one day. And, quite possibly, Buckypaper. It may just look like a turd wafer, but it's actually a paper-thin series of (carbon nano)tubes.
Buckypaper is 10 times lighter but potentially 500 times stronger than steel when sheets of it are stacked and pressed together to form a composite. Unlike conventional composite materials, though, it conducts electricity like copper or silicon and disperses heat like steel or brass.Buckypaper is made from tube-shaped carbon molecules 50,000 times thinner than a human hair. Due to its unique properties, it is envisioned as a wondrous new material for light, energy-efficient aircraft and automobiles, more powerful computers, improved TV screens and many other products.
Well damn, I bet ol' Buckminster is on cloud nine right now. Literally -- he died in 1983. But seriously, what good is black paper if you don't have a white pencil?
Future planes, cars may be made of 'buckypaper' [usatoday]
Thanks to The_Don, who invented Buckypaper, rock, scissors, and never loses.
Reader Comments
1. shalan - October 27, 2008 1:02 PM
First... wow this seems awesome.. maybe apple can use it to make lighter computers!!!
2. Daisy - October 27, 2008 1:05 PM
Fake!!
You can tell cuz the shadows are all wrong and im a whore
3. proteon - October 27, 2008 1:06 PM
Your turds are black? You might wanna have that looked at.
4. Daisy - October 27, 2008 1:07 PM
Fake!
You can tell because the shadows are all wrong and im a whore
this is obviously a duce i just pushed out
5. Sharpie - October 27, 2008 1:17 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX8eksvmWWw
6. Lieutenant Bob - October 27, 2008 1:23 PM
@2 That may be, but at least you're a whore who never backs down.
7. Konkey Dong - October 27, 2008 1:25 PM
buckypaper? isnt that what you roll joints with? no? didnt think so.
8. LSDiesel - October 27, 2008 1:26 PM
Buckypaper. Can't wait to wipe my ass with something as light as paper and and as hard as steel. No more klingons for me!
9. Daisy - October 27, 2008 1:29 PM
Fake! I'm a dirty ass whore.
10. mamadough - October 27, 2008 1:45 PM
where does the bucky part come in? i drank too much chocolate milk and now my tummy hurts :(
11. Sharpie - October 27, 2008 1:47 PM
if daisy's a whore i want a piece of that!
12. Dix Hauser - October 27, 2008 1:50 PM
If you need something harder than steel and 300x larger than buckypaper, all you need is my penis.
Would they have named this buckypaper if Bucky hadn't been revived and become Captain America? Let's face it, until recently Bucky was hella lame.
13. French - October 27, 2008 2:03 PM
@8 LSDfag
You don't need one because your ass-hole is so big shit just fall right through it. Seriously, dude. How many butt-f***s did you have in your life?
14. The_Don - October 27, 2008 2:18 PM
He he. In your face guys. I found this news and the Geekologie writers posted it and now I feel like a millionaire. Maybe I'll just throw a party tonight. Sharpie, LSDiesel, Thumperchica, you all are invited. Don't forget to bring your own booze so I can have fun.
Daisy, of course you are coming too. Would it BE a party without you? Sure we'll all watch Never Back Down after the party and fill in some wrong shadows with buckypaper. The popcorn's provided.
*starts to make prepartions for a GROOVY NIGHT*
15. daisy - October 27, 2008 2:39 PM
Fake!!!
This is an obvious photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
It kinda looks like the black paper from the movie Never Back Down, used in the scene where Max dreamed about Baja licking his nanotube and ended up inventing a strong glue.
16. Thumperchica - October 27, 2008 2:46 PM
@14 - you invite for a NBD party and make it BYOB? WTF is that? And I'll only go to a party Sharpie is going to if it's on 12/21/12...
17. The_Don - October 27, 2008 2:55 PM
Thumperchica dear, I told you English is my second language and first love. So I don't understand all your abbreviations which I have to look up. What does NBD and BYOP mean?
P.S: I got the WTF part though. That was easy.
And I thought only I had a boring lame job sitting infornt of PC screen all day.
18. The_Don - October 27, 2008 2:57 PM
If I don't invite Sharpie, who'll do the rap thing?
19. Thumperchica - October 27, 2008 2:58 PM
NBD = NEVER BACK DOWN
BYOB = BRING YOUR OWN BEER/BOOZE
20. Elmo - October 27, 2008 3:10 PM
so turd pennies are the new currency under our new pres.?
21. The_Don - October 27, 2008 3:11 PM
That was so obvious. Like the sun at night
22. Duke - October 27, 2008 3:15 PM
Buckypaper and Rizla are a man's best friends. And yes, Gillette too.
23. Steven Hawkins - October 27, 2008 3:18 PM
Super light turd pennies
24. TetraShiva - October 27, 2008 3:28 PM
God damn do you people need real friends.
25. LSDiesel - October 27, 2008 3:42 PM
@24, Most likely, but I assume you're just jealous that you didn't get invited to donnie boy's party.
26. Elmo - October 27, 2008 3:57 PM
right then. pay for things with turd pennies and shit sticks for the new America!
27. johnhandmeurcock - October 27, 2008 10:36 PM
This is a fake. Its from Never Back Down. Please edit this or the copyright owners will be notarized.
28. Mort - October 28, 2008 3:50 AM
i wish just for one post that Daisy would actualy say something constructive for once. just the once mind. i don't think i could cope without her mundayen comments about photoshop and NBD
29. slickmick - November 25, 2008 3:21 PM
I've been wiping my ass with that stuff for like 25 yrs and now I have Hemroids. So who is the dumn one now you or my the guy who wipes his ass with Buckypaper!!
30. louis vuitton - September 27, 2009 12:52 PM
It kinda looks like the black paper from the movie Never Back Down, used in the scene where Max dreamed about Baja licking his nanotube and ended up inventing a strong glue.