Comments on: Carbon Nanotube Manufacturing Breakthrough Could Mean Bye-Bye Steel http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/ the Gadget Guide | Technology and consumer electronics news and reviews Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:50:44 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Nate http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11552 Nate Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:08:58 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11552 <p>Carbon nanotubes are the next asbestos – they're so small they slip right through the nuclear membrane and damage your DNA. I think we really need to study these things more before we start cranking them out en-masse. Google 'carbon nanotube toxicology.'</p> Carbon nanotubes are the next asbestos – they’re so small they slip right through the nuclear membrane and damage your DNA. I think we really need to study these things more before we start cranking them out en-masse. Google ‘carbon nanotube toxicology.’

]]> By: miki http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11551 miki Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:18:29 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11551 <p>I guess you could just paint the planes. "Brushed steel from the outside, leather look inside, please! Thaaanks" :-)</p> I guess you could just paint the planes. “Brushed steel from the outside, leather look inside, please! Thaaanks” :-)

]]> By: Pete http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11550 Pete Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:33:47 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11550 <p>Lasso of truth sold separately.</p> Lasso of truth sold separately.

]]> By: Ben Pinto http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11549 Ben Pinto Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:16:05 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11549 <p>I'm sure wonderwoman owns the copyright on invisible planes.</p> I’m sure wonderwoman owns the copyright on invisible planes.

]]> By: LennyM http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11548 LennyM Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:27:06 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11548 <p>As a pilot I welcome transparent wings. Wings are a blind spots but they're not made of steel, they're usually made of aluminum.</p> As a pilot I welcome transparent wings. Wings are a blind spots but they’re not made of steel, they’re usually made of aluminum.

]]> By: pythagoruz http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11547 pythagoruz Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:05:16 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11547 <p>Giz,<br /> I'd be impressed if you guys can find the actual paper where this "new" info is being published. The paper physorg refers to is actually from 2005, so this news is three years old! I'd love to be proven wrong and read the new paper but after an exhaustive search I could not find any new paper in Science as they suggest. It is somewhat disappointing that neither you nor physorg undertook this search but it is clear from the lack of a link to an outside source that thats exactly what happened. </p> <p>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5738/1215</p> <p>Old news, next. </p> <p>-Hunter, PhD Candidate in Nanoscience, UIUC</p> Giz,
I’d be impressed if you guys can find the actual paper where this “new” info is being published. The paper physorg refers to is actually from 2005, so this news is three years old! I’d love to be proven wrong and read the new paper but after an exhaustive search I could not find any new paper in Science as they suggest. It is somewhat disappointing that neither you nor physorg undertook this search but it is clear from the lack of a link to an outside source that thats exactly what happened.

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/309/5738/1215

Old news, next.

-Hunter, PhD Candidate in Nanoscience, UIUC

]]> By: Uncle B http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11546 Uncle B Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:14:36 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11546 <p>An extremely light weight corrosion proof carbon fiber bodied plug in commuter vehicle will assure American workers transportation to and from homes and workplaces when oil is no longer feasible, and with the money-printing $700 Billion bail-out out, the price of oil is about to skyrocket. A new era has been shoved onto an unready America and carbon fiber and its many innovative uses will play a pivotal role in our survival.</p> An extremely light weight corrosion proof carbon fiber bodied plug in commuter vehicle will assure American workers transportation to and from homes and workplaces when oil is no longer feasible, and with the money-printing $700 Billion bail-out out, the price of oil is about to skyrocket. A new era has been shoved onto an unready America and carbon fiber and its many innovative uses will play a pivotal role in our survival.

]]> By: JW http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11545 JW Sun, 05 Oct 2008 13:46:08 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11545 <p>can't they just paint it? then it wouldn't be see thru lol</p> can’t they just paint it? then it wouldn’t be see thru lol

]]> By: bill http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2/comment-page-1/#comment-11544 bill Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:59:26 +0000 http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2008/09/carbon_nanotube_manufacturing_breakthrough_could_mean_byebye_steel-2.html#comment-11544 <p>im still waiting for when steel replaces nanotubes but im sure thats a few years off.</p> im still waiting for when steel replaces nanotubes but im sure thats a few years off.

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