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[Gentlefish]

Has this been posted yet?

http://www.digitaljournal.com/science/vantablack-the-darkest-material-ever-made/article/389583

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Carbon fiber tubes properly arranged on aluminum foil, apparently, reflect only about 0.035% of light that hits it. No matter how you hold this stuff up to the light, you still can't see any of the surface features, only a silhouette.

The material, the Daily Mail reports,

I have a problem with this source but I do not doubt that this material exists. I now want to cover my house in it.

[smjjames]

The more oceans we find, the more likely it is that life (That we'd recognise) exists in the solar system.

I swear, if they find even the simplest bacteria there, I am going to piss my pants.

IMO, Europa seems like the place where life would be likely to be found. But yeah, would be amazing to find life forms on those moons.

Also, any micro organisms wouldn't actually be bacteria, just bacteria analogues, also convergent evolution.

[Knit tie]

I fricking love carbon nanotubes. What can't they do? Conductors, motors, armor, nanomachines  - these little guys have it all covered to a stupidly high degree.

When I replace my body with a carbon nanotube based cybernetic deathmachine a-la Raiden and begin my reign of terror, the first 1000 of my slaves I shall sacrifice to whoever invented them.

[Putnam]

I fricking love carbon nanotubes. What can't they do? Conductors, motors, armor, nanomachines  - these little guys have it all covered to a stupidly high degree.

When I replace my body with a carbon nanotube based cybernetic deathmachine a-la Raiden and begin my reign of terror, the first 1000 of my slaves I shall sacrifice to whoever invented them.

I was looking up physical properties of various materials for Dwarf Fortress stuff. I found out that carbon nanotubes have a theoretical ultimate tensile strength of 200 gigapascals. For comparison, adamantine in Dwarf Fortress is 5 gigapascals. Of course, Adamantine's young's modulus, shear modulus and bulk modulus are all (and this isn't even an exaggeration, this is what the math comes out to) 5,000,000,000/0.

[Putnam]

Neither do I.

EDIT: Young's Modulus is a measure of rigidity, Bulk Modulus is a measure of resistance to uniform compression and shear modulus to... shear. Basically, you can't budge Adamantine at all unless you give it 5 gigapascals of pressure, at which point it shatters instantly.

[Putnam]

Adamantine, yes. Well, not shatter, but rather, uh... do something physically impossible. It's perfectly rigid. If it were to shatter, the waves would propagate instantly (infinitely faster than light) and, as there are no weak points, it won't shatter but rather... disintegrate? Annihilate? Adamantine's impossible, okay, a singularity of material science. Actually pretty interesting.

[MaximumZero]

Probably explosively. Very dwarven.

[Sirus]

Even more dwarven is the fact that untrained peasants can work with the stuff using nothing but some heat and an anvil.

[Lagslayer]

Even more dwarven is the fact that untrained peasants can work with the stuff using nothing but some heat and an anvil.

Don't forget the multi-purpose beard.

[Gentlefish]

It's just atomic rearrangement guys, it's not that hard to do.

[i2amroy]

Really I think the craziest part is that they can make soft, bendable clothing out of it.

[Sergarr]

Really I think the craziest part is that they can make soft, bendable clothing out of it.

Steel: pretty unbendable
Steel mail shirt: pretty bendable

chains, man

[scrdest]

Really I think the craziest part is that they can make soft, bendable clothing out of it.

It might work by putting small plates of adamantine onto a mesh of another material which is abstracted away or something, as opposed to a more rigid base of armor.

[Sheb]

Yeah, because a game that track that speck of mud beneath your dwarf second left toenails is going to abstract that other material.

[scrdest]

Yeah, because a game that track that speck of mud beneath your dwarf second left toenails is going to abstract that other material.

SHUSH.

OK, ALIEN MAGIC, ALRIGHT?