What's blacker than black?

Mr Badger · 14 Jul 2014 at 00:57

bitslice said:
I think given the complexities of growing nanotube forests in the first place, attaching it to a cheeseburger isn't much of an issue.

Dear Mr Bitslice.

Thank you for submitting your concept for a McDonalds "Stealth Burger" that our customers won't actually be able to see, together with your proposed commission schedule. Regretfully I must inform you that our marketing experts have advised that the significant cost of this venture is unlikely to be recouped in increased sales. Further, our legal team seem to think we will get sued six ways from Sunday and will be bankrupt within the year.

As ever we do appreciate your "unique" suggestions as they brighten up many an otherwise routine executive meeting, so please come them coming.

Yours sincerely,

Ronald.

bitslice · 14 Jul 2014 at 01:04

Mynight · 14 Jul 2014 at 01:11

Already been done

I imagine a carbon nanotube burger would taste burnt. Assuming you could even eat it :confused:

Monkeynut · 14 Jul 2014 at 01:13

[FnG]magnolia;26602464 said:
I'm certainly stupid but I don't lack balls or conviction.

You didn't lack balls - and that's why you have a conviction.

Pinkribbonscars said:

So black he's purple!

Efour · 14 Jul 2014 at 07:18

Cosimo · 14 Jul 2014 at 07:35

pitchfork · 14 Jul 2014 at 07:45

Caged said:
Then you'd have made a room suitable for waiting out a hangover in. Where can I get one?

That'd make it worse, it'd just make you focus completely on the pain, enhancing it's effects.

scorza · 14 Jul 2014 at 07:55

Thought this was going to be a thread about Ed Sheeran.

G-MAN2004 · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:23

I read the title and the first thing I thought of was Purple Aki. Glad I'm not the only one

Amp34 · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:29

To be an **** you can't get blacker than black.... Black is the absence of reflected light. Technically what we have here is "The closest thing to black" humans have ever made. It makes all our pitiful attempts of "very dark red" paper and "super dark blue" fabric look pitiful though.

Metalface Mark · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:31

To be fair to them, it does look pretty darn black.

Amp34 · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:31

tbyeah said:
One of the comments with the idea that you coat a room with it, and even with the light on, couldn't tell at all the size or shape. Weird thought.

Add in a person coated head to toe in this stuff and you have the ultimate mind ****.

Did someone just touch me!? :eek:

Theophany · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:37

If I could get my woman an LBD made of this stuff I'd never get in trouble again.

Castiel · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:54

spoffle said:
It's so black that you can't see folds/contours in it. So think of night time camouflage covered in that, you wouldn't even be able to see it with night vision, unless everything else around it is fairly light and reflective, then you'd see something moving around.

It would probably stick out more as it would create a void...when it comes to night-camouflage and say a sniper, the sniper isn't just looking for specific shapes or movement, he is looking for differences and oddities in the landscape and something like this material would probably (without actually seeing it in action no one can be sure) give a sniper something to identify rather than the other way around.

meandu229 · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:54

Isnt this what wile e coyote uses to make it look like there is a tunnel in a mountain side.

Theophany · 14 Jul 2014 at 08:56

meandu229 said:
Isnt this what wile e coyote uses to make it look like there is a tunnel in a mountain side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_hole

Flukester · 14 Jul 2014 at 09:22

Metalface Mark said:
To be fair to them, it does look pretty darn black.

Really ????, think about that statement a little more.

You cannot see the 'blackness' (lack of reflected light) without it actually in your possession and viewing it with your eyes. You are viewing it on a monitor you twonk!