http://videosift.com/video/The-Buckminsterfullerene-watch-it-i-f-you-like-atoms

you seem to have the same fascination with mr bucky as I do.

c-60 is awesome.

I watched the full documentary on it with which the excerpt I posted is from, and really liked it.

good on ya. !@

Bucky Balls FTW!

From the brilliant mind of R. Buckminster Fuller, Bucky Balls.

>> ^brycewi19:
Step 1: Magnetize small ball bearings
Step 2: ?
Step 3: Profit!


Not even that interesting. Those magnetic balls are already an industrial product. Just find a supplier, buy in bulk, repackage and ....profit.

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>> ^budzos:
I think "Buckyballs" is a fine name, especially if you know who/what it refers to . I'm all for risque humor but life really starts to get tiresome when any utterance of the word "balls" is considered funny.


Unlike kids trying to shove remotes up their asses. Now THAT's comedy.






balls.

>> ^budzos:
I think "Buckyballs" is a fine name, especially if you know who/what it refers to . I'm all for risque humor but life really starts to get tiresome when any utterance of the word "balls" is considered funny.


Says the guy with a profile picture of a kid shoving a remote control up his ass ;-).

>> ^budzos:
I think "Buckyballs" is a fine name, especially if you know who/what it refers to . I'm all for risque humor but life really starts to get tiresome when any utterance of the word "balls" is considered funny.

HAHAHAHA!!! you said "balls"!!

These are not called bucky balls, someone mentioned it already, but it is called neocube.

NeoCube's Website

I have one of these, got it as a gift, they are a ton of fun

Up vote for the cool product, down vote for the wrong name

Carbon Bucky Balls and the more useful Bucky Tubes are probably the coolest thing we'll see in our lifetimes.

Wikipedia "In 2000, a multi-walled carbon nanotube was tested to have a tensile strength of 63 gigapascals (GPa). (This, for illustration, translates into the ability to endure weight of 6300 kg on a cable with cross-section of 1 mm2.) Since carbon nanotubes have a low density for a solid of 1.3 to 1.4 g·cm−3,[5] its specific strength of up to 48,000 kN·m·kg−1 is the best of known materials, compared to high-carbon steel's 154 kN·m·kg−1."

That's 311 times stronger than high carbon steel, when they figure out how to mass produce them it will absolutely revolutionize materials science, things that are completely out of reach now like a space elevator will become possible. This is science fiction in real life and probably in most of our lifetimes.

So... Pretty cool name, the lame magnets really don't measure up to their namesake at all.

Cool as this is - although they're not really buckyballs - am I the only one who thinks "BuckyBalls" is a slightly unfortunate name for a childrens' (OK, adults' too) toy? I mean, the official site for these is getbuckyballs.com...

Mom! My balls are bucky!

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Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

That was a good book. Read it back in college.

Vonnegut is great; he can be so deep and funny all at the same time.

Bucky Fuller's "Utopia or Oblivian" is also a keeper.

Nice, thanks

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May this *lady fare better!:)

HAH! and now on this one
http://www.videosift.com/video/Buckminster-Fuller-Humanitys-Final-Exam
three related to Bucky.....has everything to do wit the tags-make it user tweakable...check boxes next to 3 pages of related vids?? Lucky? Doable?