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TheMan
01-15-2008, 10:16 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1555030620080115?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=10003


a substance so black it absorbs more than 99.9 percent of light.

...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.

ANGRYAFRICANMAN
01-16-2008, 10:56 AM
HUH?

Hsnopi
01-16-2008, 11:33 AM
i was hoping it was one of those myspace tests and MASH was gonna take it.

DickCheney
01-16-2008, 01:21 PM
True dat!

Vygramul
01-16-2008, 01:45 PM
It gets a ticket for Second Law violation, because if the thing isn't radiating anywhere in the spectrum, it must be getting hotter and hotter.

Angry Kid
01-16-2008, 02:00 PM
Bah. It's radiating blackness.