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Nanobamas Created In Laboratory
LiveScience.com ^ | 18 November 2008 | Staff Writing

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.

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To: Old Sarge

Is anyone else getting tired of all this “obama” BS?


21 posted on 11/18/2008 5:49:53 PM PST by Sarajevo (I hear moon crickets...........chirping.)
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To: Sarajevo

Fifty-six percent of The Sheep will never get tired of The Messiah, The Obama, The One (piss be unto him).


22 posted on 11/18/2008 5:52:26 PM PST by Old Sarge (For the first time in my life, I am ashamed to be an American)
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To: Sarajevo

Is anyone else getting tired of all this “obama” BS?


I passed the “getting tired” point back in May.


23 posted on 11/18/2008 7:31:35 PM PST by Moonmad27 (Simplify, simplify, simplify. H.D. Thoreau)
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To: 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.

So the OBomber really is a "pin-head"

24 posted on 11/18/2008 7:42:02 PM PST by tophat9000 ( Note: To Obama's Thugocracys... We are all " joe the plumber "...)
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To: Tarpon

Yes, we have nobarakbananas today.

How’s the rest of that song go?


25 posted on 11/23/2008 9:00:21 PM PST by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: Old Sarge

His ears look ginormous!


26 posted on 12/02/2008 1:42:23 PM PST by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Tagline scrubbed to prevent invitation to indoctrinization camp)
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