Posted on 11/23/2008 8:16:02 PM PST by Daffynition
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.
Hart created the "nano art" to raise awareness of nanotechnology and science.
"Developments like this are an excellent way to bring the concepts of nanotechnology to a broader audience," said Hart, who made the portraits with his colleagues by working late on a Friday evening. "Also, we thought it would be fun."
To create the nanobamas, the researchers converted Shepard Fairey's popular red, white and blue poster of Barack Obama into a line drawing. They shrunk it and printed it on a glass plate with a laser to create a mask. They shined ultraviolet light through the masked glass plate onto a silicon wafer to create the pattern. Then they grew the carbon nanotubes on the pattern, using a high-temperature chemical reaction.
The researchers photographed the nanobamas with an electron microscope. The faces are half a millimeter in size.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Microscopic faces of Barack Obama made using nanotechnology, and imaged using a scanning electron microscope. Each face consists of millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes, grown by a high temperature chemical reaction. Credit: John Hart/University of Michigan
The fuhrer’s Master Race — at last!
When word of this leaked out of the lab, the message was “Yes, we have nanobamas!”
A highly paid Academic with much too much time on his hands.
Your tax dollars at work in a State with the worst economy in the Nation. Productivity, it’s for Chumps.
White boys sure are doing some goofy crap to gain favor with the black “messiah.” Weird.
The faces are the size of a grain of salt, but the egos are the size of beluga whales.
Future headline:
“Sculptor Asked to Make Second Sculpture of Obama’s Qualifications; Sculptor Asks Obama Administration if it’s Serious”
You WILL believe in hopenchange!
Simply amazing. Is there nothing The One can’t do?
Geez. I’m sorry. Is search busted again? I tried. Honest.
I know you did. But I wanted you to see some of the witticisms on the other thread, too.
“We have nanobamas today.” And each nanobama knows as much about economics as the full-sized one.
Thank you ... as usual they are FReeperbrilliant!
I love the pinhead comment!
Professor Hart needs to get a freakin’ life. This is so pathetic is must qualify as some sort of psychopathology.
It’s just one more tiny step from there to Nobama. It’s smaller than a quark and does not actually exist.
Holy cow, that is truly animal cruelty.
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