Nanobamas Created In Laboratory

LiveScience.com ^ | 18 November 2008 | Staff Writing

[Old Sarge]

President-elect Barack Obama's image looms larger than ever in the media these days, but now his face has been rendered in 3-D portraits smaller than a grain of salt, using nanotechnology.

The mini-Barack Obamas were made by John Hart, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan, who dubbed them "nanobamas."

Each nanobama contains about 150 million carbon nanotubes stacked vertically like trees in a forest. A carbon nanotube is an extraordinarily strong hollow cylinder about 1/50,000th the width of a human hair.

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[Old Sarge]

Ah, the wonders of science. Now we can all carry on our new government-implanted microchips the image of The Obama, The Messiah, The One (piss be unto Him).

[Tarpon]

I read it too quickly, thought the title said nobananas. Not much difference.

[nickcarraway]

Each nanobama has exactly as much executive experience as he does. Impressive.

[Dallas59]

Why?

[Larry Lucido]

Yes, we have nobananas.

[RegulatorCountry]

Nanobamas

That's racist!

[explodingspleen]

Is this an implementation of that ‘smaller government’ thing I’ve been hearing so much about?

[ETL]

http://www.livescience.com/technology/081117-nanobamas-portraits.html

[cripplecreek]

Why?

[NeoConfederate]

He’s truly a leader more famous than Lindsy Lohan!

[OneWingedShark]

>Each nanobama has exactly as much executive experience as he does. Impressive.

Indeed, I was thinking much the same thing. Science is impressive.

[john in springfield]

The faces are half a millimeter in size.

This would make the Obama heads about the size of a pin prick.

[Boogieman]

It figures that this comes from researchers at a public University. I wonder how many millions of taxpayer dollars each of those useless and self-indulgent “nanoportraits” are costing us?

[john in springfield]

It doesn’t matter. They’re of Obama.

[ETL]

One micrometer (μm) = 1/millionth of a meter

500 μm = 500/millionths of a meter
= .0005 x 39.370 inches = 0.012 inches

Did I screw up on the math?

http://www.livescience.com/technology/081117-nanobamas-portraits.html

[P.O.E.]

[17th Miss Regt]

The ears are way too small.

[Old Sarge]

So is the ego!

[ebiskit]

“Nanobamas”

It lives!!!! Obamabots live!!!!

They were around long before the election.

tehDeets

[aWolverine]

Your tuition at work.