Radical Fabric Is One Atom Thick

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  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    So now that we have carbon nanotubes harder than diamond we need another nanomaterial to nanoabsorb the nanoimpact of the nanobullet.
  • RenegadeRenegade Old school Join Date: 2002-03-29 Member: 361Members
    Pants made of nanites? The possibilities are endless...
  • OttoDestructOttoDestruct Join Date: 2002-11-08 Member: 7790Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Nil_IQ+Oct 23 2004, 04:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Nil_IQ @ Oct 23 2004, 04:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Mmmm, monomolecular sword........

    Remember me Ssssnake? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    OLL DID SOMEONE SAY LIGHTSABER?
  • POOP_AkiraPOOP_Akira Join Date: 2003-11-23 Member: 23468Members
    *was just seconds away from saying "Radical fabric? Im holding out for tubular fabric..."*
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-boooger+Oct 24 2004, 08:14 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (boooger @ Oct 24 2004, 08:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->yeah, they have the same problem with making spidersilk armor - it'd stop the bullet with the thickness of your ordinary tshirt, but you'd have a shattered ribcage.  you know, minor technicalities like that.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    <!--QuoteBegin-boooger+Oct 24 2004, 08:14 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (boooger @ Oct 24 2004, 08:14 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->yeah, they have the same problem with making spidersilk armor - it'd stop the bullet with the thickness of your ordinary tshirt, but you'd have a shattered ribcage.  you know, minor technicalities like that.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yup. It wouldn't dissipate the force/energy, so you'd still get a hell of a punch. I think that's how helmets are designed as well - so they spread the energy out equally over your entire helmet, so you don't crack your skull but bruise it. But hey, what do i know.

    That sounds pretty cool, but with most scientific discoveries, I doubt I'll see any practical widespread useage of any of the technology in my lifetime. But you've gotta keep at it anyway, so future generations can enjoy the fruits of your labour! I mean, whoever originally made "the car" probably wouldn't have seen anything like our modern car, or anything even somewhat similar in competence and ability [or style!], but he did it anyway. What a nice bunch of people <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> Or the modern computer.. the original guys probably didn't expect to see anything like the mmog's we'll see in 10 years.

    I don't expect to use much amazing technology that wasn't physically possible 20 years before hand. So maybe i'll see this stuff in 2025.. For the record, there is no way we are going to get anything that extends our lifetime significantly for the next.. 100 years. So expect to die around 2070, fellas! Haha. Don't worry, it's just another adventure <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

    TL;DR [no ban!]: Don't expect to see this in use for another 10-20 years. Even then it'll still be in development. And you're all going to die before we see 2100. Sorry <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-eediot+Oct 23 2004, 10:11 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (eediot @ Oct 23 2004, 10:11 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> And you're all going to die before we see 2100. Sorry <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Hmm, so in other words no other medical advances that do not use nanotechnology will be developed in our lifetimes?
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    I doubt that there'll be much that will add another 20 or 30 years on your life.. there might be, but right now I think we're just trying to help cure diseases [mostly STD's.. wonderful] and develop stuff that can kill people better.
  • N1RampageN1Rampage Join Date: 2003-12-15 Member: 24420Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-boooger+Oct 23 2004, 08:26 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (boooger @ Oct 23 2004, 08:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-5kyh16h91+Oct 23 2004, 05:59 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (5kyh16h91 @ Oct 23 2004, 05:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-boooger+Oct 23 2004, 05:14 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (boooger @ Oct 23 2004, 05:14 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> yeah, they have the same problem with making spidersilk armor - it'd stop the bullet with the thickness of your ordinary tshirt, but you'd have a shattered ribcage.  you know, minor technicalities like that. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    That's still alot better than the hollowpoint going through and blasting out half of your back... <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    very true, i just didn't want people saying "I am invincible!" like boris from goldeneye, because wearing that would not render you indestructable. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Not even close... A sheriff around here died from getting shot. Not by the round, but by his vest pushing into his midchest area FIVE inches. This was one of those $1400 dollar kevlar jobs too...
  • funbagsfunbags Join Date: 2003-06-08 Member: 17099Members
    The fabric isnt 2 dimensional..its got width, hight, and length. its width is an atom wide.
  • frostymoosefrostymoose Join Date: 2003-09-12 Member: 20799Members
    we know, buddy but there's nothing you can do aboot it to change the article eh?
  • [WHO]Them[WHO]Them You can call me Dave Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10593Members, Constellation
    If this scaling down continues as it does......

    Sometime in the future:
    A man stands in a hallway, looking at the floor, puzzled.
    Another man walks by, sees the confusion, and asks what's going on.
    The first man continues to search the flooring, with a frustrated look he says "I dropped my computer."
  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-funbags+Oct 23 2004, 11:54 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (funbags @ Oct 23 2004, 11:54 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The fabric isnt 2 dimensional..its got width, hight, and length. its width is an atom wide. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Then how would you define 2 dimensional, something with no width at all? This is probably the closest we're ever going to get.
  • eedioteediot Join Date: 2003-02-24 Member: 13903Members
    3d is xyz. Length, Height, and Width.
    2d is xy, Length, and Height. [I think]

    It's not a case of appearing to be 2d in nature and practicality, 2d is a dimension with no possible comprehension of width, just as we can't comprehend a dimension outside of our own.

    Sort of.
  • Cold_NiTeCold_NiTe Join Date: 2003-09-15 Member: 20875Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-eediot+Oct 24 2004, 05:27 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (eediot @ Oct 24 2004, 05:27 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> 3d is xyz. Length, Height, and Width.
    2d is xy, Length, and Height. [I think]

    It's not a case of appearing to be 2d in nature and practicality, 2d is a dimension with no possible comprehension of width, just as we can't comprehend a dimension outside of our own.

    Sort of. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Yeah I have to agree with this. Just because something is so thin that it is hard for us to imagine doesn't mean it doesn't have thickness, it just isn't very thick at all.
  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    Actually, until we are capable of actually seeing an atom, how do you know it isn't 2D?
  • SurgeSurge asda4a3sklflkgh Join Date: 2002-07-14 Member: 944Members
    Maybe soon we'll have nano-condoms.
  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    I want to be the first kid on my block to have a nanocar.
    I want to be the second kid on my block to be turned into grey goo.
  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    Just think of computers actually made of nanites. Want to upgrade? Download new schematics, and the nanites rearrange themselves. Sorted.
  • TommyVercettiTommyVercetti Join Date: 2003-02-10 Member: 13390Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    <!--QuoteBegin-Aldaris+Oct 24 2004, 11:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aldaris @ Oct 24 2004, 11:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Just think of computers actually made of nanites. Want to upgrade? Download new schematics, and the nanites rearrange themselves. Sorted. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If nanotech like that actually went worldwide... all economies would collapse, because if you had the right elements you could make anything. And I don't wanna be around when some extremist decides to use nanites as a WMD.
  • UltimaGeckoUltimaGecko hates endnotes Join Date: 2003-05-14 Member: 16320Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-TommyVercetti+Oct 24 2004, 12:36 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TommyVercetti @ Oct 24 2004, 12:36 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Aldaris+Oct 24 2004, 11:57 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Aldaris @ Oct 24 2004, 11:57 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Just think of computers actually made of nanites. Want to upgrade? Download new schematics, and the nanites rearrange themselves. Sorted. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    If nanotech like that actually went worldwide... all economies would collapse, because if you had the right elements you could make anything. And I don't wanna be around when some extremist decides to use nanites as a WMD. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Your nanites would need to produce Uranium 235. Being as it's not exceptionally common, combined with the fact it would probably end up killing you with radiation if you just went out and said, "Replicator: Nuclear Warhead."

    However, nanites that could create some foods and basic supplies out of some base material could be nice. I don't see machines stringing together proteins into edible food soon, but hey, sooner or later.

    This atom thick fabric stuff would be more like a new super thin (more transistors) chip, not some little robot doing calculations for you...so I'm not sure where all this nanite talk is springing up from <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> .
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