• 'Space camouflage' coating claim
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-15837145[/url]
It's not like we need it anyway, sadly.
[quote]The nanotubes are one-atom thick sheets of graphene wrapped into cylindrical tubes. Engineers from Michigan University found they could be used to obscure objects so that they appeared to be nothing more than a flat black sheet. The team suggest "forests" of the material may one day be used to cloak spacecraft in deep space[/quote] Can't they just paint it black? And hide behind flattened cardboard boxes? What's the point of this stuff?
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33385540]Can't they just paint it black? And hide behind flattened cardboard boxes? What's the point of this stuff?[/QUOTE] This apparently also removes the depth perception of said object so they look like a flat black sheet.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33385540]Can't they just paint it black? And hide behind flattened cardboard boxes? What's the point of this stuff?[/QUOTE] It absorbs 99% of light so it's not just black. It's crazy black.
Nano tech is awesome
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33385540]Can't they just paint it black? And hide behind flattened cardboard boxes? What's the point of this stuff?[/QUOTE] If they painted it black you could still see the contours of the shape. This obscures the whole thing.
seriously is there something these nanotubes can't do?
[QUOTE=TheTalon;33385540]Can't they just paint it black? And hide behind flattened cardboard boxes? What's the point of this stuff?[/QUOTE] Black paint will reflect light, even if it's matte, it will always reflect enough to give the viewer depth perception of it, and see it in low light. This is different somehow. [editline]22nd November 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Instant Mix;33387863]seriously is there something these nanotubes can't do?[/QUOTE] Apparently not, which is exciting.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;33385832]It absorbs 99% of light so it's not just black. It's crazy black.[/QUOTE] I want to make a joke about this but I'll probably get banned.
That's crazy, imagine seeing something so black it's like looking at a flat shape or something. Actually, the way I put it sounds kind of lame, but I realize that the kind of black we currently have is nowhere near "true" black.
[QUOTE=squids_eye;33385832]It absorbs 99% of light so it's not just black. It's crazy black.[/QUOTE] black
I kept reading it as "Space Camouflage" floating clam. I thought we found some animal that lives out in space and could cloak itself. Mildly disappointed.
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