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    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    Badger badger badger badger...
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    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    "She sprinkles gold nanoparticles on the ends of the wires...suffuses the particles with a superheated silicon gas...solid silicon begins to form at the end of the wire."

    Bullshit. Dr. Ross, you made a deal with Rumpelstiltskin, didn't you?
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    Image of psychiccheese: You're awesome ( psychiccheese: You're awesome (
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    every single comment so far is a penis joke. is there nothing else to say about this article?
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    tetracycloide promoted this comment psychiccheese: You're awesome ( was starred psychiccheese: You're awesome ( was unstarred
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    09/01/09

    @psychiccheese: i knew a bad plastic surgon who also had trouble keeping the surface of silicon perfectly regular and uniform.
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    "Mushroom shaped," huh?

    That's one sheltered life you've lead Lauren.
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    09/01/09

    @Cash907Censored: seriously, where is meredith when we need her?
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    09/01/09

    @tetracycloide:
    Recovering from this week's ep of True Blood?
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    Image of OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear OW-Holmes:Bringer of Fear
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    The nanowire is my penis

    Wait a minute...
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    Image of vulcanized vulcanized
    09/01/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: Does your nanaowire do the weird stuff?
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    09/01/09

    @OW-Holmes--Upset with Polling: Well that sucks.

    Take it back and ask for the 'macro' version.
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/01/09

    In reply to A Fresh Crop of Mushroom-Shaped Nanowires Keeps Your Circuits Shrinking
    Nanowires - the proverbial 'bag of dicks'?
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    Image of jrghoull jrghoull
    09/01/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: care to elaborate on your rather colorful metaphor?
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    Image of Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip! Belabras: now with Kung Fu grip!
    09/01/09

    @jrghoull:
    As in "eat a bag of..."

    Surely I'm not the only one who's heard this before?
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    09/01/09

    @Belabras ate my dingo!: No, they clearly haven't been harvested yet. This is still in the "field of dicks" stage. Grow it, and they will come.

    Ugh... I had to write that during lunch, didn't I?
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    08/28/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules
    Very cool!
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    08/28/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules
    "The carbon monoxide capper also takes advantage of a quantum effect called the Pauli exclusion principle".

    Lovin' it when Quantum applications show up in the mainstream!
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    08/28/09

    @gdeering: It happens more often than most people realize. If it wasn't for the exclusion principle, all atoms would have the same size, which means that chemistry would be as boring as it gets and life (among other things) wouldn't be possible.
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    Image of syafiqjabar of Mars syafiqjabar of Mars
    08/28/09

    In reply to For The First Time, Microscopes Show Us Detailed Pictures of Individual Molecules
    Whoa.

    I thought the hexagonal shape shown in illustrations was only a representation of the real form. Turns out it really look like that.
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