Your Blackness Sickates Me

AK-74me

AK-74me

"Typical White Person"
Taking black to a new level.

New material pushes the boundary of blackness - Yahoo! News

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. researchers said on Tuesday they have made the darkest material on Earth, a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.

Made from tiny tubes of carbon standing on end, this material is almost 30 times darker than a carbon substance used by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology as the current benchmark of blackness.

And the material is close to the long-sought ideal black, which could absorb all colors of light and reflect none.

"All the light that goes in is basically absorbed," Pulickel Ajayan, who led the research team at Rice University in Houston, said in a telephone interview. "It is almost pushing the limit of how much light can be absorbed into one material."

The substance has a total reflective index of 0.045 percent -- which is more than three times darker than the nickel-phosphorous alloy that now holds the record as the world's darkest material.

Basic black paint, by comparison, has a reflective index of 5 percent to 10 percent.
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bcp

bcp

In My Opinion
if all light is absorbed and none ever released, since light is matter, would this material not gain weight over time?

Come on people its 0530, somebody has to have an equation to show how this would happen.
 
AK-74me

AK-74me

"Typical White Person"
Dixie said:
What does sickates mean please?
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You obvisously have not been to the school of the illustrious Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or Louis Farrakhan.


Looking for the image of Farrakhan with the quote "Your whiteness sickiates me"
 
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Homer J

Homer J

Power Chord
So if our eyes see an object by picking up reflected light, would we be able to see this stuff?

While we are at it, if you could drive your car at the speed of light, and you turned on your headlights, would they shine forward or would you catch up to them?
 
AK-74me

AK-74me

"Typical White Person"
Homer J said:
So if our eyes see an object by picking up reflected light, would we be able to see this stuff?

While we are at it, if you could drive your car at the speed of light, and you turned on your headlights, would they shine forward or would you catch up to them?
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If you put a plane on a tread mill and cranked it up to 500 mph would it achieve flight?
 
AK-74me

AK-74me

"Typical White Person"
_MightyMouse_ said:
I was being sarcastic, dur :dork:
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Yeah I know, but you must not know the arguments that are being generated on this subject.

Mythbusters is going to do an episode on it, which from my understanding was generated from an argument on another internet forum.

Just google "plane" "conveyer belt" together you should find plenty of discussion.

I don't think it will fly, evidently there is a large group of people that think it will.
 
bcp

bcp

In My Opinion
AK-74me said:
If you put a plane on a tread mill and cranked it up to 500 mph would it achieve flight?
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since the forward thrust is created by the engines and not the tires or any other part that comes in contact with the treadmill, Yes, the plane would achieve flight.

now, back to the seeing the thing.
would it not be visible by its lack of visibility?
the hole that your mind sees in the counter top would be an interesting place to look for it.
 
John Z

John Z

if you will
bcp said:
since the forward thrust is created by the engines and not the tires or any other part that comes in contact with the treadmill, Yes, the plane would achieve flight.
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Well, if this treadmill were not only very large, but also able to create 500 mph airflow above the treadmill, then sure. Otherwise, it provides no lift, which is what makes an airplane fly. Making the ground move below an aircraft's tires has absolutely no effect on flight.

Regarding the black, do you think this substance is darker than the Spinal Tap album cover?

Nigel Tufnel: It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.
 
Pushrod

Pushrod

Patriot
John Z said:
Well, if this treadmill were not only very large, but also able to create 500 mph airflow above the treadmill, then sure. Otherwise, it provides no lift, which is what makes an airplane fly. Making the ground move below an aircraft's tires has absolutely no effect on flight.
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:yeahthat:
At 500 miles an hour most likely the bearings in the wheels would burn and seize and the plane would be launched backwards off of the treadmill like a bullet and a cool crash would ensue.
 
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Gwydion

New Member
The plane would not fly. The airflow over the wings would not create any lift, as they would remain stationary as would the air.

And this object would indeed be invisible if it achieved a reflective index of 0, asno light would be able to reflect off of it and into our eyes.

So, now the question is if an object HAD a reflective index of 0 and you DID look at it....what would you see in place of the object?
 
bcp

bcp

In My Opinion
I see, Yall are saying that the engines woudl not be used on the plane. In that case, no, it would not fly.
however, if the engines were on and the thrust applied the treadmill, if long enough would not stop the plane from lifting off.
 
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