Vantablack
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Vantablack
Anyone seen this stuff? It's a deep black material invented in the UK and it absorbs 99.96% of light. All the pics I've seen of it, it looks like someone has just blacked out pics in photoshop but this pic shows it best.
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- Vilante
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Re: Vantablack
Sick. What if it ends up in the hands of someone evil?
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Re: Vantablack
Apparently its pretty fragile stuff, being made up of carbon nanotubes. They're using it in places like powerful telescopes to absorb stray light within the equipment. The 0.04% of light that is reflected is supposedly where light is hitting the top of the nanotubes.
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Re: Vantablack
If it weren't so delicate I'm sure we would have already seen widespread military applications. Pretty cool stuff.
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Re: Vantablack
This will be how the 2017 McLaren will launch
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Re: Vantablack
It seems you have to grow the nano's so Mclaren would have to send off the chassis for growing.
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Re: Vantablack
This looks very cool - even artists are fighting over it : https://www.dezeen.com/2016/12/30/anish ... spite-ban/
- durbster
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- w00dsy
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Re: Vantablack
I'd almost put money on Trump making it illegal for anyone other than the military. Those immigrants might use it to sneak in.
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Re: Vantablack
Depending on which side of the wall they're working on they might not be able to get out.w00dsy wrote:Those immigrants might use it to sneak in.
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Re: Vantablack
It's made in the UK so is safe from El Presidente Trump
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