Holy fucking shit boys. It's happening.
Space elevators, ultra-light ultra-durable air and spacecraft, and the potential for FUCKING GIANT ROBOTS!
All thanks to our lord and savior Nikola Fuckin' Pigeon Lovin' Tesla!
http://news.rice.edu/2016/04/14/nanotubes-assemble-rice-introduces-teslaphoresis/
Start building those coils boys!
http://techcrunch.com/2016/04/14/teslaphoresis-activated-self-assembling-carbon-nanotubes-look-even-cooler-than-they-sound/
And fuck you Captcha, very soon I WILL be a robot.
http://hackaday.com/2016/04/16/teslaphoresis-tesla-coil-causes-self-assembly-in-carbon-nanotubes/
If you can't see what this means for future tech, you're no true /m/an.
Did somebody say tubes?
>>14126459
mecha is short for mechanical, it is already real
>>14126502
This shit doesn't have just super-strength material applications.
Artificial neural networks, yo.
And you can build it all through fucking field manipulation.
This shit is going to turn people into GODS.
>>14126520
You know what I mean, you facetious cunt.
Read the damned articles and start thinking about the possibilities.
Powered Armor in 10 years, Gundams in 20 to 30.
>>14126502
are they gonna remodel my shithole?
>you'll be too old or dead by the time this tech matures
fuck everything
>>14126557
The fuck you talkin' about?
You've got the potential to be a PIONEER in these fields.
I'm going to look into going to college now because of this shit.
This is so fucking cool.
I think this single gif has all but cured my depression.
>>14126502
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs
>>14126573
>going through college
>again
if I were younger and have a better aptitude in mathematics I'd be jumping on this, sadly my talent lies elsewhere so I'd have to settle withtheme songs for robotswhen they come around
>>14126557
Not unless you're 60. Everything accelerates incredibly fast now. Giant robots will always be held back by physical limits and practicality despite what OP keeps saying, but this technology will be in use and it will open up some serious advances in all the just-out-of-reach technologies that keep saying "well all we need now is a bunch of nanotubes and we can get things going." This makes that much easier. Not to mention all the fields that can benefit from building simple structures at a distance.
>>14126587
>spoilerwriting theme songs for robots
fixed
>>14126588
Muscle cars aren't practical when you approach them from a strictly transportation mindset.
The cool thing about tech like this is the potential for insanely cool IMPRACTICAL applications.
You know, like building a giant fucking robot for example.
What about nanomachines, son?
>>14126609
Yes, but they're still going to be custom works that are incredibly expensive so nobody's really going to work on them. They would require engineering expertise much higher than would be worth for any hobby. We won't be seeing actual moving bipedal mecha for a long time, even at VOTOMS level.
Kuratas is basically the only hope we have for right now. I doubt this tech will change anything about that project though.
>>14126640
Fuck you nigga, you're the exact same kind of cynic that said we'd never go faster than the speed of sound.
>>14126635
Nano-machines building Micro-tesla coils to build more nano-machines, son.
>>14126609
better yet
>an exoskeleton that turns into a car that turns into a plane that turns into a part to make a giant robot
>every household has the potential to be its own sentai team
gentlemen, we're one step closer towards fixing japan's population problem
>>14126658
Fucking brilliant!
This is the kind of guy that gets it, you fucks.
>>14126647
No, you're just being way too optimistic about a single discovery. This alone doesn't change a ton about the issues plaguing mecha. I'm not saying it won't happen, but it will be some time before we make the right breakthroughs and it trickles down to a consumer level, and THEN we'll have amateur projects start popping up. Which, again, won't be something for the masses to enjoy for a while.
And stop replying to every single post in the thread while generally acting like a sperg. I love mecha to death but you're just being autistic.
>fucking shit
>FUCKING
>Fuckin'
>fuck you
>shit
>fucking
>shit
>facetious cunt
>damned
>fuck
>shit
>fucking
>fucking
>fuck you nigga
>fucking
>you fucks
calm down
>>14126682
This was the critical requirement for large scale assembly of nanotubes you dipshit. Not only that, this discovery shows that it can be done far easier and cheaper than first envisioned, and all thanks to a device made a century ago.
Mecha is just the start of its potential applications.
>>14126695
No.
This shit is one of the first actually important scientific news pieces to come along in years.
Would you rather this just be another mindless Gundam _____ v ______ threads?
>>14126700
That's literally what I've been saying, except you think that nanotubes are the main thing keeping us from mecha. I think it'll be 50 years before money is the only thing keeping someone from building a fully movable Gundam.
something im not getting: is this implying that they can assemble carbon nanotubes that effortlessly, or is it saying that they can form premade carbon nanotubes into various shapes?
the latter's cool, the former is world-altering
>>14126709
I'm saying you can talk like a civil man about it, even if it is really cool
can't wait for the nanotube revolution but I'm still waiting on that graphene revolution first
>>14126722
latter
>>14126521
>turn people into GODS.
Newtypes when
>>14126722
Right now it's just premade clumps of tubes.
But this is the kind of thing that could be mated with their forging process to assemble nanotubes into much larger lengths and quantities and then assembled into practically anything.
We've known how to 'grow' them for years, the hard part was getting them to arrange in quantities that were usable for shit larger than the head of a pin.
That hard part has just been solved.
Church of Tesla, when?
>>14126727
And I'm too damned motherfucking cocksucking tittyraping excited to worry about whether or not your pussy ass is offended by my motherfucking language or not.
Bitch.
>>14126742
not offended m8 but you could use different words to express excitement
>>14126459
Sure. And workable fusion reactors were only ten years out... thirty years ago.
>>14126757
One's with less fucking punch, sure.
But that stupid kind pf pussy bullshit is for weak cunts that get mad at harmless fucking phonetics.
>>14126772
We've got plenty of 'workable' fusion research reactors.
The problem has been getting up to the break-even point.
The efficiency of large scale carbon nanotube superconductors could help us with even that though.
>>14126459
Jesus Tesla was on point.
>>14126777
poets didn't describe beauty or majesty with fucking sickballs niggertitty shit, but whatever
I'm not gonna tell you how to talk when one of the board's mottos is shit fucking blowing up everywhere forever
All the above mentioned technical applications are incredible enough, but you know what else I see?
https://youtu.be/7YlxDLIQWdI?t=62
>>14126791
>Tesla was actually from the future trying to replicate future tech with primitive tools
![teslaphoresis-1[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/HWHmqQW.gif "teslaphoresis-1[1].gif")
>>14126800
>>14126801
He didn't predict this effect according to history but maybe he brought tesla coils from the future as something we could not only understand and replicate but as something that would continuously advance key points in history. Amazing.
>>14126800
Hell, you can even go one step further and make your own Symbiote if you want.
>>14126819
>bayonetta style clothing
>clothing shaped the way you want it
>killing the fashion industry
>literally wearing your tools
this can't come soon enough
>>14126742
>That pic
Holy shit mecha top gear can be real now.
>>14126875
well, minus the whole "top gear existing" bit
>>14126695
No, I fucking shitty titty won't.
>>14126459
Now explain, what does it have to do with unpractical piloted robots.
>>14126920
It allows for that manufacture of materials light enough and strong enough to overcome the diminishing returns of scale, and also the issues of weight v ground pressure. It also provides the means of creating superconductor and smallscale, high yield battery tech as well.
The g-force issues remain, but there's ways around that already.
All that's left is what aesthetic do we choose? Arguably the most crucial decision of them all.
>>14126944
>what aesthetic do we choose?
Not even a question.
>>14126965
Fuck that shit.
>>14126971
>He doesn't want general public to experience FFS -> Gothic Made redesign.
>>14126459
>Materials that could e used to make Giant robots.
>News about modified genes on fetus several months ago.
Are you guys ready?
Our Earth's about to enter a future rights out of a Gundam show.
>>14126975
We want to impress the masses, not make them think we're a bunch of anorexics.
>>14126971
>>14127014
Fuck it.
You got the rest?
>>14127037
That's all I know of.
>>14127041
I remember there being ones for Kobayashi and Kondo too.
Let's hope based Japan gets on this shit because the west sure as fuck isn't going to use it properly.
Anyway, what a time to be alive.
>>14127065
America will build the space elevator and other super structures.
Japan gets to build the robots.
Russia can do the Bolo Tanks and Supersubs.
England gets to do the spaceships.
France can make the robo-waifus.
Germany gets to learn Islam.
>>14126965
>>14126971
>>14127014
Come on, one of you fucks has to have all of these.
>>14126984
>modified genes on fetus
Remember that episode of Kaiba?
>>14127086
Unless you mean South America, the US has no place to build a space elevator that that's on native soil.
>>14126459
Mecha robots will never be real. I don't wanna burst your bubble guys but there's no way in hell that environmental organisations or current industries (like cars) will have it that way for their reasons. Of course I would think it would be awesome to have real Zakus but even with new technological breakthroughs, it would just take much more changes on other fronts to possibly get there.
>>14127137
The US owns the open waters. Prepare for Operation Just Cause Enduring Freedom Divine Truth Manifest Destiny as we expand artificially into the ocean and into space.
>>14127086
>Germany gets to learn Islam.
But it already happened,anon.
> In one experiment, nanotubes assembled themselves into wires, formed a circuit connecting two LEDs and then absorbed energy from the Tesla coil’s field to light them.
>>14127086
I chuckled at that last one
Germanstan BTFO
>>14127489
Tesla confirmed for minovsky?
>>14127501
Tesla confirmed for time traveler trying to develop future tech with what was available at the turn of the century.
>>14127514
Tesla confirmed for visionary futurist and engineering genius beyond his time who is only less well known and acknowledged than he should be because of a successful smear campaign on the part of Edison due to the differences in electrical currents they championed.
>>14127536
Yeah, that's the OFFICIAL story.
We all know that he was secretly a time traveler.
After all, why else would he be so open about loving a pigeon if he DIDN'T come from a more enlightened time?
>>14127501
Minovsky ain't got SHIT on Tesla.
Every aspect of modern technology that isn't a heating element or an incandescent lightbulb came from Tesla's work. Even the very idea of robotics came from Tesla, as did the electric motors that allow every giant robot in science fiction to move. Except the Turn A, right? That uses an I-Field generator. Oops, Tesla invented Field Generators, too. Even the AC power that's running your computer right now and the radio waves that connect you to the internet are Tesla's (Marconi patented the radio, but he built it after hearing Tesla explain how such a device could be made).
And now, 73 years after his death, he's still leading the way.
>>14127536
Nikolai pls go
>>14127536
>who is only less well known and acknowledged than he should be
Uhm...
>>14127978
Tesla isn't. Edison has been better known and given more acknowledgement with decades. It's only in the last few years that the trend is reversing, mostly due to pop culture references.
why
>>14126459
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ1Mz7kGVf0
>>14127014
>no ebikawa'd
aw
>nerds on the Internet overreacting yo something that is actually not important at all and only vaguely interesting
>conductive material follows the path of an electro magnetic field
This is fucking nothing.
>>14129225
>>14129347
Confirmed for not having read the articles at all.
Get fucked naysayers. This shit is just the beginning.
>>14130777
Confirmed for taking "this sure is interesting and will lead to future developments, just like any other discovery or advancement" as "breakthrough of the fucking millennium GET HYPE".
>>14126850
>bayonetta clothing
I'm not sure if I want to get naked when I have to use anything bigger than a bicycle.
>>14126984
>modified genes on fetus
Wasn't this done on non-viable embryo/blastocysts? Did a paper on CRISPR/Cas9 so I read the news article (and a little bit of the paper) but that shit is still scary. Not to mention the paper was rejected in Nature and some other journals.
>>14130792
That's the same exact kind of attitude people had when electricity was first demonstrated to the public.
>Wow, that's neat, but it'll NEVER be more useful than my handcranks and whale oil.
>>14131226
>>14126984
>Modified genes on fetus
>USA developed a laser weapon a while back
>Nukes are still a valid weapon
Shit, we're becoming SEED.
>>14131226
Are you seriously comparing this to the discovery of electricity? What makes you an expert on this anyway? You read three articles online? Nice job. I've been watching carbon nanostructures for a while and while I can say it is exciting, this isn't a huge leap forward. It's a small (but necessary) step. This isn't even like when we discovered that nanotubes have these properties in the first place.
I agree that the thread is /m/ because /sci/ news that can be applied to Sci-Fi is accepted. It's cool. But don't act like this is the thing that changes the world.
>>14131261
Holy shit, he knew. >>14127585
>ITT literally one autist with limited science understanding getting overexcited about an interesting discovery that isn't as world changing as he thinks.
Seriously there are many research into different ways of assembling CNT. This is an interesting addition to them but it won't result in any world changing technology yet.
>>14132130
>>14132028
So not OP but what WILL make robots real?
>real life mecha
as much i want to be happy about it real life sucks there's bound some bullshits but i guess i'm not that excited about it anymore too jaded to care about it anymore
>>14126459
>Space elevators, ultra-light ultra-durable air and spacecraft, and the potential for FUCKING GIANT ROBOTS!
WE G-RECO NOW
>>14126521
WE ARE GOING TO BE A MACHINES GODS A TRUE /M/AN'S DREAM COME THROUGH SUBARASHI!!!!!!!
>>14126658
the age of transformers is beginning
>>14126682
>I love mecha to death but you're just being autistic
>implying it's a bad thing especially when you're in /m/
>>14126729
when we go to space anon and live there for a long time
>>14126990
fuck the masses
THE MECHA AGE IS HAPPENING BROTHERS
>>14131261
Developed? We have that shit on our super carriers now.
>>14131261
who will be our kira yamato?
>>14132028
>I've been reading a bunch of stuff for a long time
>Yet I have zero fucking reading comprehension
And yes, when physicists have to come up with new terms for new phenomenon, it usually leads to groundbreaking shit.
>"Yes Rutherford, we've known about atoms for years, but just because you've discovered this 'nucleus' doesn't mean we'll ever be able to do anything REALLY interesting with them."
That's you. That's what your stupid ass sounds like right now.
>>14132215
Their cynicism. Obviously.
>>14132265
Yeah, well, fuck Nagano and all of his insane fanboys even more.
>>14132297
>charged atomic structure
>lining up against a directional electric field
>groundbreaking shit.
Not samefag, but it's not a new term for the physics, but the a marketing term for the process borrowed from biology. Do you even science? What next? Calling a centrifuge a Newtonphoresis?
>>14132311
Evidently not. He also seems to dislike Naganofags for some reason.
>>14132311
It's not the effect itself, it's the fact that it's capable at the distances it is at the levels they seen.
They HAD to lift the term from biology because it's was such an unexpected result.
It's more than just electrostatic flow.
The motherfuckers may have just discovered the mythological 'aether' and not even realized it.
>>14127585
>filename
Not like he's wrong.
>>14132297
>There are so many applications where one could utilize strong force fields to control the behavior of matter in both biological and artificial systems
>Further studies will have to prove or disprove how and to what extent the described self-assembly process can actually be controlled or is applicable, but the recent demonstration certainly gives you a taste of the potential of the discovery.
That's all the articles say about the importance of the discovery. Everything else is just explaining old info.
>look at how dumb you are, this small discovery is going to change everything because famous discoveries did!!
Why don't I see much news about it then?
>>14132353
It's all over a bunch of the tech sites if you'd even bother to look.
>>14132385
A bunch of pop-sci sites with little fanfare. Hardly the treatment for a groundbreaking discovery.
>>14132436
And you're honestly going to try and say you're not a cynical turd now?
>>14132472
That's irrelevant to whether it's actually important or not.
>>14132479
If you say so.
>Where are some other sources!?!?!
>"Right here."
>Wawwwww I don't like those sources, they're too normie-centric!
No giant robot for you, turdboy.
Are we sure this was simply not an avenue to show female and "minority" scientists?
>>14132485
I wouldn't want one anyway.
>>14132485
That anon you just replied to and who just replied to you isn't me. But if I wanted shitty sources with little importance I would have acknowledged the ones you posted.
>>14131261
>>14132271
How do lasers even work in fog and rain?
This is some facebook tier "I LOVE SCIENCE XD" shit
You are 100 years too early.
>assembly at a distance
>super robot will be reality before real robot
>>14132743
Real robots were written later after all.
