Posted on 11/18/2008 3:33:56 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpted, go to link to read...)
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
I read it too quickly, thought the title said nobananas. Not much difference.
Each nanobama has exactly as much executive experience as he does. Impressive.
Why?
Yes, we have nobananas.
That's racist!
Is this an implementation of that ‘smaller government’ thing I’ve been hearing so much about?
Why?
He’s truly a leader more famous than Lindsy Lohan!
>Each nanobama has exactly as much executive experience as he does. Impressive.
Indeed, I was thinking much the same thing. Science is impressive.
This would make the Obama heads about the size of a pin prick.
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?
It doesn’t matter. They’re of Obama.
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
So is the ego!
“Nanobamas”
It lives!!!! Obamabots live!!!!
They were around long before the election.
tehDeets
Your tuition at work.
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