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Comment Re:Misleading title (Score 1) 187

In strength it is both.
Graphene is incredibly strong for a one atom thick material. All other materials need far more layers of atoms to achieve the same strength.
However: it is a one atom thick material. That means it doesn't have much absolute strength.
And the strength of graphene is non-uniform. It is far stronger in 2 directions than in the 3rd one

Comment Re:I'm Working on Software To Do Just That (Score 1) 259

Why not both? Make a game that allows you to use cattle prods to prod files in the right folders and shoot them with a railgun to either add tags at or delete the file unrecoverable (difference based on the hash of the milisecond time. If the binary printout of that ends with a 1 it adds a tag. If it ends with a 0 it deletes)

Comment Re:DMLS (Score 1) 55

Bromine.

For other reasons, none of the metals with a halflife of below a second would be advisable. Especially not for objects as large as this.

If you want to get technical both mercury and bromine would work fine, assuming your 3d printer is in a freezer.

Not that I would want an implant made of any of those metals.

Comment Re:the mysterious "us" (Score 1) 178

Natural disasters are usually excluded.
The gains are directly for the home owners. If they don't upgrade an earthquake would cause more cost because they'd have to pay for the rebuild cost.

That is, if the government doesn't step in and pay for it because the poor home owners can't because they have just lost everything due to an earthquake.

Comment Re:This might alienate anti-ISI* Muslims. (Score 1) 225

The treaty just doesn't define properly what torture is. This allowed the US to define it the way they did. And they didn't choose a reasonable definition.
According to that they do not torture.
Whether that holds up in any war tribunal will probably never be tested because the US is too mighty. They count on that.

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