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Post by brillbilly on Jul 14, 2014 23:44:30 GMT 10
Blackest is the new black: Scientists have developed a material so dark that you can't see it... A British company has produced a "strange, alien" material so black that it absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of visual light, setting a new world record. To stare at the "super black" coating made of carbon nanotubes – each 10,000 times thinner than a human hair – is an odd experience. It is so dark that the human eye cannot understand what it is seeing. Shapes and contours are lost, leaving nothing but an apparent abyss. If it was used to make one of Chanel's little black dresses, the wearer's head and limbs might appear to float incorporeally around a dress-shaped hole. Actual applications are more serious, enabling astronomical cameras, telescopes and infrared scanning systems to function more effectively. Then there are the military uses that the material's maker, Surrey NanoSystems, is not allowed to discuss. The nanotube material, named Vantablack, has been grown on sheets of aluminium foil by the Newhaven-based company. While the sheets may be crumpled into miniature hills and valleys, this landscape disappears on areas covered by it. "You expect to see the hills and all you can see … it's like black, like a hole, like there's nothing there. It just looks so strange," said Ben Jensen, the firm's chief technical officer. A sample of the new material. Image credit: Surrey Nanosystems www.independent.co.uk/news/science/blackest-is-the-new-black-scientists-have-developed-a-material-so-dark-that-you-cant-see-it-9602504.html :-/Dont like the thought of what military applications this could be used for?
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Post by Wes Gear on Jul 17, 2014 21:53:08 GMT 10
An Aircraft coated in that might be a bit hard to see at night.
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Post by brillbilly on Jul 17, 2014 22:49:49 GMT 10
An Aircraft coated in that might be a bit hard to see at night. Yeah but i still think at night some craft will still have the audacity to just sit there with lights on,and in the day they will shine like UFO'S..well the real UFO;s will
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Post by Wes Gear on Jul 19, 2014 1:53:04 GMT 10
Yeah I thought that Brill, you got to have them flashing lights so no one crashes into you.
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Post by brillbilly on Jul 21, 2014 20:29:49 GMT 10
Yeah I thought that Brill, you got to have them flashing lights so no one crashes into you. Lol..I often wonderd why all these black budget aircraft(if thats all UFO's are) with all that stealth tech,would accidentally put the spot lights on at night while hovering over pheonix lol. A mile wide craft?......Military made?.....puts lights on at night over city for all to see? My point i think is..... it was not a military craft.!
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