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Friday, 21 October 2005

quote [ Scientists have constructed the world's smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension, the wheels are spheres of pure carbon.
The whole car is 4 nanometers across. That's slightly wider than a strand of DNA. A human hair is about 80,000 nanometers thick. ]

I wonder if it'll take a V8

Also: Ever wonder what would happen if your computer's startup sound lasted 2 minutes and you played it at full blast in a library?

[sci&tech] [by eskimonoise@5:09pmGMT] [+10 Good]

Comments

Stylez said @ 5:32pm GMT on 21st Oct
That is totally awsome. +1 nanotrucks!

slothbaby said @ 5:37pm GMT on 21st Oct
That thing have a hemi?

phunkeybuddha said @ 5:42pm GMT on 21st Oct
Does it take diesel?

sacrelicious said @ 5:46pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:3 Funny]
fuck, my MicroMachines are obsolete!

blacksun said @ 12:21am GMT on 22nd Oct
Whoa... I totally forgot about micro machines. Thanks!

strangeffect said @ 12:27am GMT on 22nd Oct [Score:1 Insightful]
wellthatmeansi'mnotdoingmyjobwhichisdisappointingbutiguessthat'sprobablywhytheydon'tsellthemanymoreordotheystillsellthemidon'tknowbuttheydon'treturnmycalls

Class1Product said @ 5:52pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:2 Insightful]
scientists have far too much time on their hands

sacrelicious said @ 6:09pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:1 Funny]
you're just playa hatin'! they be rollin' up in they Ben(zene molecule), sippin' they 40 (nanoliters), bustin a cap in the ass of some bacteria that be talkin' shit. hey, pimpin' (ameoba's) ain't easy, yo!

LordFeldo said @ 6:43pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:1 Insightful]
you, sir, are a terrible person.

cz85 said @ 6:49pm GMT on 21st Oct
Wouldn't an amoeba be like 5000 times bigger than the car? =D

Dam that's some fine ass

sacrelicious said @ 7:18pm GMT on 21st Oct
yeah, and she does this thing with her uroid that ... well let's just say it'll cost you fifty bucks extra!

g0dfr33 said @ 9:51pm GMT on 21st Oct
but they have no character, (with a microscope), you can see right thru them...

Barnabas_Truman said @ 4:04pm GMT on 22nd Oct
Every major technological advancement in history, including the computer you are using to read this comment, is the product of scientists with far too much time on their hands. Most of us would not be alive if not for the accomplishments of medical researchers with far too much time on their hands.

scotticus said @ 7:51pm GMT on 22nd Oct
But this isn't science for the sake of science. It's doing routine chemistry in a gimicky way to get money to do research that is completely pointless. Any moron could make a nano-scale molecule, throw it on a surface, and push it around. Waste of resources and lab space...

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:29pm GMT on 22nd Oct
Molecular-scale vehicles are not pointless gimmicks. This is an artifical version of the sort of natural machinery that moves chemicals around inside cells. If we can get this sort of thing working, we can make nanofactories.

JOECAM said @ 5:56pm GMT on 21st Oct
Awesome.

metternich said @ 6:40pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:5 Funny]
What is this .. a car for ants?! The real car would have to be at least...3 times this big!

dangerm00se said @ 6:42pm GMT on 21st Oct
someone explain to this guy exactly how small 4 nanometers is.

shahmat said @ 7:17pm GMT on 21st Oct
It's like really really small. REALLY small. Like tiny. Sort of.

Sinai said @ 11:41pm GMT on 21st Oct
Except like, smaller.

alienhall said @ 5:07pm GMT on 22nd Oct
Ok, the distance between a single Carbon-Carbon bond in general is: 1.54 Angstroms, the distance between a double Carbon-Carbon bond (p-hybridized) is around 1.31 Angstroms.

10 Angstroms = 1 nanometer
4 nanometers = 40 Angstroms

So, on average there are only around 27 single carbon-carbon bondlengths or around 30 double-carbon-carbon bondlengths to the whole width of this "car".

i.e, the car is only 28 atoms wide

That's pretty freakin' small. When you consider the width of a human hair is approx. 30 micrometers, that's 300,000 angstroms, or 30,000 nanometers... 750 of these cars could sit side-by-side on one strand of your hair.

Alternatively, if we take the Dodge Viper (width of 75 inches or so): the same number of vipers side by side would be 0.89 miles, or 1.43 kilometers wide!! [mind you a viper is pretty wide as far as a car goes]

PontifexPrimus said @ 7:47pm GMT on 21st Oct
+1 Zoolander

dangerm00se said @ 7:49pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:2 Funny]
great. now I look like a moron because he was quoting a shitty movie.

perfect.

Trigger said @ 7:51pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:2 Insightful]
There, there, you'll have plenty more chances to look like a moron for other reasons too. :D

themindtaker said @ 6:45pm GMT on 21st Oct
+1 Prangstgrüp
-1 Whatever the other thing was
+1 2 minute start up sound sounds like Brian Eno music.
+1 Good

lalanda said @ 7:31pm GMT on 21st Oct
So... what kind of mileage does it get?

The jokes keep on coming!!!!!

redank said @ 8:54pm GMT on 21st Oct
GOOD LORD please tell me where i can get that startup sound clip

schatten00777 said @ 9:06pm GMT on 21st Oct
Get an audio editor. Paste in the opening sound. Paste again. And again. And again. And so on.

owleyes said @ 1:24am GMT on 22nd Oct
that wasn't what the sound was, it was nothing like the Apple startup sound, it was just some sound effect, played instead of the startup sound.

orcasha1 said @ 11:18pm GMT on 21st Oct [Score:1 Funny]
How do they expect a hundred clowns to come tumbling out of that?!

relm said @ 12:37am GMT on 22nd Oct
Unrealistically.

Dying Dingo said @ 6:42am GMT on 22nd Oct
Unless they're femtoclowns.

relm said @ 12:39am GMT on 22nd Oct
Buckyball wheels!

teknokracy said @ 3:58am GMT on 22nd Oct [Score:5 Funny]

zki said @ 10:10am GMT on 22nd Oct
You just pimped a micro machine!

Barnabas_Truman said @ 12:30pm GMT on 22nd Oct
Man, those are some sweet rims.

sensibleb said @ 9:47am GMT on 22nd Oct
I could make exactly the same claim. I mean, who's gonna prove me wrong?

ME: I've created the world's smallest statue of Shirley MacLaine. I carved it out of a single quark.

YOU: What? Where?

ME: Right there. *points*

YOU: Dude, there's nothing there.

ME: Yes, it's right fucking there. Of course, it's far too small to be seen with the naked eye, or even the most powerful electron microscope.

YOU: Bullshit.

ME: Don't be a micro MacLaine hater.

Trigger said @ 8:22pm GMT on 22nd Oct [Score:1 Funny]
I gave this comment the world's smallest upmod. :)

Barnabas_Truman said @ 12:28pm GMT on 22nd Oct
Amazing! This looks similar to the natural molecular cargo trains found inside the cell. I'm impressed that we've managed to build an artificial one.

max_damage78 said @ 2:30pm GMT on 22nd Oct
dUDE, THEY'RE all ARTIFICIAL!!11

dON't YoU gEt IT?

wE'RE JSUT SOME FIGMENT IN A fat mans DREAM!!