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Engineers Just Unveiled a New Blackest-Ever Material, Even Darker Than Vantablack
Science Alert ^ | 13 Sept 2019 | David Nield

Posted on 09/14/2019 9:56:55 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

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To: fella
If the atmosphere did not retain heat at night we would all freeze to death at sunset.

A statement which is not in anyway in conflict with my post. The global warming debate is about the mean equilibrium temperature, and the mechanism that maintain it.

61 posted on 09/14/2019 12:57:25 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ( Schumer delenda est.)
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To: Flick Lives
"What would it be like standing in a room covered in this stuff with a small 40 watt bulb hanging in the middle..."

That room would be perfect for putting a Holodeck in.

62 posted on 09/14/2019 12:58:09 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Roger that. 🤪
63 posted on 09/14/2019 1:48:20 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington)
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To: dfwgator

Black is Black!

I want my baby back!

Or as the Southern boys used to sing back in 1967,..

Black is Black..
I want my darkies back...


64 posted on 09/14/2019 1:54:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Black cars look better in the shade.


65 posted on 09/14/2019 2:54:20 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The most pleasant swim I ever had in a private pool was in a very elite neighborhood with old estates. This house had a pool painted black. No electric heating bill, and it was a very warm, but not hot, environment.


66 posted on 09/14/2019 3:00:39 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Can they send me a couple material samples? We’re looking to recover a black vinyl recliner and want to insure we get the darkest shade possible.


67 posted on 09/14/2019 3:36:50 PM PDT by LeoTDB69
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To: Spacetrucker

“Yellow” must mean it was an Asian Diamond that put on Blackface.

Asian is then new white.

Still racist.


68 posted on 09/14/2019 3:46:26 PM PDT by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It’s African American!!!


69 posted on 09/14/2019 4:02:09 PM PDT by Phillyred
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>What would it be like standing in a room covered in this stuff with a small 40 watt bulb hanging in the middle...

Methinks one would not only see the light bulb along with your own skin and clothing in a black void, unless you were dressed in black clothes and painted with carbon nano-tubes in which case you would effectively be invisible to anybody else in the room at the same time.


70 posted on 09/14/2019 8:54:30 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (The Fourth Estate is now the Fifth Column)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
"MIT artist-in-residence Diemut Strebe has worked with the researchers to coat a 16.78-carat natural yellow diamond, estimated to be worth $2 million, in the ultrablack material."

The trivial destruction of a $2 million diamond illustrates that colleges have way too much money.

71 posted on 09/14/2019 9:01:00 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (Trump is solving the worldÂ’s problems only to distract us from Russia.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

It took me a couple of minutes to notice that the coated diamond surface is actually blacker than the background black. I had to tilt my LED screen at just the right angle to see the outline of the black diamond against the less black background.


72 posted on 09/15/2019 12:29:32 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Hot Tabasco

It doesn’t count if your friends can afford it.

In short no matter how exotic, how cutting edge, how completely incomprehensibly Hi Tech, the material is, it always used first in Golf Club.


73 posted on 09/15/2019 6:23:49 PM PDT by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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