NASA telescope finds elusive buckyballs.mov

University of Western Ontario astronomer Jan Cami and his team of researchers have discovered buckyballs in space - soccer ball-shaped molecules first created in a lab on Earth 25 years ago. Cami is the lead author of a paper about the discovery appearing online in the journal Science.

Read more about this exciting discovery in Western News at www.uwo.ca.

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[ZanetkaPL]

Interesting!!

I see a postcard from Krakow in the background!! woohoo

[marcuspinson]

@unable2fail911 um.... fuck no..... buckyballs (known as C60 on the molecular scale) are produced when electricity/energy flows freely between two sources of carbon in a vacuum, you retard

[unable2fail911]

wtf is this bs because isnt buckyballs only a magnet... wtf

[Lshag]

Studying for his exam right now....very interesting man to learn from.

[terrymorse]

@ChaosmanOne Buckyball applications: 1. an additive to strengthen polymers, 2. antioxidants for humans, 3. targeted drug delivery.

[paulhallart]

@slowmopoke the cosmos maybe, the universe, we don't know. All I can say is it's as I suppose: the electron is the intelligence. correlative electronic patternization. prevalent throughout matter and possibly evidence of universal sentience.

[slowmopoke]

@paulhallart the cosmos maybe,the universe no.

[paulhallart]

We may actually eventually discover a sentience to the universe as a whole; that this existence of complexities is a form of extra-corporal life in a galactic sense. It is also possible to ascertain that each example of the atomic makeup of the universe, despite a supposed physical commonality, is also necessarily unique.

[MrTalhajamil]

Quite informative..really appreciate.

[nimeshkingdom55]

nice one................