ICL Researchers Figure out How to 3D Print Pure Graphene

3D Printing ^ | February 13, 2015 | Brian Krassenstein

[Fungi]

Your nullness, your expert opinion please. Once a null met a void and soon they would become null and void.

[cuban leaf]

I’ve been following Graphene for a while now. I think it will change our future the way the invention of the light bulb did, or the internal combustion engine, etc. Very exciting.

However, at the current exponential increase in the speed of change, within 50 to 100 years, the world we will have created will not be fit for a normal human being. Seriously. Unaltered humans will be unable to cope - or survive for that matter.

[smokingfrog]

This could be Hugh ...

[cuban leaf]

Graphene.

Imagine inflatable buildings on the moon with Graphene walls so tough there would be no infrastructure and they would stop space debris. And movable graphene sunshades to control internal temperature.

I can only assume they would also be transparent so you’d have to paint the inside to protect from harmful radiation.

[Dr. Prepper]

Cool Ping

[skr]

Sadly, our use of wisdom is vastly outpaced by our use of knowledge.

[null and void]

3-D Printer Ping!

#octomethylcyclobutane

[DoughtyOne]

Thanks for the bump. Interesting...

[Windflier]

Sadly, our use of wisdom is vastly outpaced by our use of knowledge.

That is tagline-worthy, and one of the most profound statements I've read here in some time.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

If you thought the last fifty years of technological progress was amazing hold on to your hat for the next fifty.

[Mama Shawna]

Sadly, our use of wisdom is vastly outpaced by our use of knowledge.

That is tagline-worthy, and one of the most profound statements I've read here in some time.

Seriously.

[null and void]

*sigh* Should be:

#octamethylcyclobutane

[SaveFerris]

Yes, yes it is.

[SaveFerris]

It ate your eight.

[jonatron]

The first thing I thought when I saw this is "what the Hell is graphene," so I share this link for everyone with the same question in mind:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/12/22/material-question

[PUGACHEV]

"Sadly, our use of wisdom is vastly outpaced by our use of knowledge."

That's one of the themes in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon. Rubaschov, the protagonist, works out the theory of the relative sophistication of a culture based the speed of its technological change. In other words, the quicker a society advances technologically, the relatively less sophisticated it becomes socially. For instance, the U.S. Constitution was a product of the Enlightenment, and it represents a very sophisticated adaptation to the technology of the 18th Century, which had not changed that much since the 1st century. Since the Industrial Age, technology has advance leaps and bounds, to the point where it would take a millennia for society just to catch up to where we are now.

[cuban leaf]

Yeah, there is a reason you don’t give your car keys to an 8 year old.

[leopardseal]

You could be talking about putting multi-story buildings together in a few days with units that just snap together like legos...

[2ndDivisionVet]

Yeah, this type of thing could be revolutionary.