NASA's frozen smoke named lightest solid

[StageLeft]

Neato Burrito

 

[notfred]

5 and a quarter cubic feet per pound....

 

[ThePresence]

wow, neat.

 

[BlueApple]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!

 

[Spike]

hot dang that is cool stuff. I wanna touch it to really feel how light it is.

 

[silent tone]

Capturing space dust is fascinating and all, but here's some more info. Second feature down.

edit: There's some lab on the net that sells samples ~10x10 cm, non-optical quality, for like $15 couldn't find it w/ google though

 

[HappyPuppy]

I think I've known a few people who have a brain density about the same as the frozen smoke. A very interesting product, nonetheless.

 

[Czar]

Where would the world be without NASA

<-- nasa fanboy

 

[911paramedic]

I thought I heard about something just like this years ago in Popular Science. Must have been different frozen smoke.



The latest batch can endure temperatures as high as 2,600 degrees F <---I could even use that to hold my CPU.


Edit: I thought so, it was used in the '97 mars mission.
Linky

 

[dude8604]

I want some ...

I wonder how strong it is?

Also, my first post as a Golden Member...and as a 1000+ post member...

 

[911paramedic]

Here is a nice picture of it, shaped into a cube.

Cube of frozen smoke

 

[Czar]

<< Here is a nice picture of it, shaped into a cube.

Cube of frozen smoke >>



:Q

 

[Czar]

omg
http://thaiastro.nectec.or.th/library/img/stardust8.jpg
is this also the stuff?

 

[Evadman]

<< omg
http://thaiastro.nectec.or.th/library/img/stardust8.jpg
is this also the stuff? >>



Yeppers, that's it. Transmits very little heat. Best insulator in the world ( AFAIK )

 

[Squisher]

I like that name "Frozen Smoke".

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Whatever happened to that lighter than air polymer plastic NASA had awhile ago?

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

that stuff looks so damn cool. I want a small cube to put on my desk.

 

[bugsysiegel]

Pretty cool.

 

[aphex]

That is REALLY freakin cool.

 

[gopunk]

if anybody knows where i can get some... i think it'd be a cool thing to have

 

[Poncherelli]

I'd like to buy myself some too if it were sold somewhere at a decent price, that stuff kicks ass.

 

[yakko]

Cool.

 

[bizmark]

Wow, that's really cool, and I don't doubt that it exists, but doesn't it just look incredibly fake to you? I mean, those pics look like simple photochopping jobs. Some sort of effect.

 

[TheOmegaCode]

That's amazing...

 

[Mookow]

That stuff is cool