423894 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Not to bring back the fingerbang era but this is pretty nuts. http://www.cracked.com/article_17476_7-man-made-substances-that-laugh-in-face-physics.html 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
count chocula Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 everyone loves pictures!... It's not the brick in the picture up there, it's the stuff under the brick. Aerogel, also called "Frozen Smoke," is very much like Ben Affleck's appeal: practically non-existent, but still there somehow. It is 99 percent air, with the other percent being silicon dioxide or fudge or whatever, and looks like fucking magic. Its structure makes it a piss-poor conductor and thus makes it an excellent insulator. In other words, aerogel is also fireproof. In addition to being awesomely heat resistant, aerogel can also hold insane amounts of weight proportionate to the size of the aerogel being used, up to 4000 times, which shames regular air something fierce. To put it in totally nonsensical terms, if air had a party, while aerogel was busy getting hummers in the back, loser oxygen would be making sure everyone was using a coaster. That's how much cooler aerogel is. Fuck you, oxygen. The suits astronauts use are filled with it to keep the cold of space from, you know, killing them. More transparent aerogels are being made to insulate windows, or the world's lightest ping-pong ball, as you can see in this clip at 0:36: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KM4RT Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 New Era Dildo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tails0nE Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 ouch... that shit looks painful.. /nh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_R_O_N Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 http://www.cracked.com/video_17500_helpful-tutorial-on-most-difficult-video-game-ever.html insert DAO laugh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicenemyno.3 Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 damn, props! I really enjoyed that article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veintiocho Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I like how nearly every substance in the article is eventually going to be turned into some sort of bulletproof material.:lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrashcat Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 fuck man I wanna run around on non-newtonian liquid :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_gacy Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Wait, crack didn't make the list? WTF?!?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SystemFailure Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 Where's the SPAM? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famecrazy Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I don't think anyone would dare "laugh in the face of fingerbanging" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harvey Wallbanger Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Cool article. The video where the guy makes a ping pong ball out of liquid smoke is fucking awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRUNKEN-ASSHOLE-ONER Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 [ATTACH]113703.vB[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Earthworm Jim Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Sunglasses hinges that never break, toasters that get the toast right every time, TV remotes where the numbers don't wear off the buttons, ceiling fans that don't vibrate. Bags of chips that never get stuck in the vending machine. Carbon nanotubes will fucking solve it all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichi723 Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Fucking BA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R@ndomH3ro Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 that frozen smoke stuff is cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shai Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_acetate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delonemonkey Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 ferro fluids aer what power flying saucers. Real talk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falseface Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Where can we buy any of this stuff? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R@ndomH3ro Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 why the hell would you want it? its mostly nasa technology that has no practical use unless you are planning on going to mars Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the graff giraffe Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 that was only 3 substances Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Harris Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 there's a page 2 bud^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the radiologist Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 why the hell would you want it? its mostly nasa technology that has no practical use unless you are planning on going to mars nah. you cop a big ass block of that shit, paint it, throw it in a field or some shit, and you got a piece that looks like its floating mid air. i win. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!@#$% Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 off label uses for items are some of the most important products we have. i could see some of this stuff going that way like some uses in the kitchen for some of the it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gnarly Sheen Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Holy shit.. this is bad ass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spring Break '92 Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Yea but a 1' x 1' cube of it probably costs as much as a Bentley. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the.crooked Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 Nano carbon fiber tubes are amazing. You can control the diameter of the tubes, so you can control the level of conductivity they will have. one potential application is creating a conductive fluid that can be sprayed onto surfaces before a circuit board is placed over it Imagine coating a wall with it. Placing a large flexible oled on top of it, and have a fuckin monitor right on your wall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANGELDUST Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 amazing shit right here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KILZ FILLZ Posted June 27, 2009 Share Posted June 27, 2009 go piss ya self Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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