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Hi Paul,
Do you have a TLDR summation, if you have had the time to read/browse through it?
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Ancient History
Both. We do basic research in a sense, aim to publish papers and so, but also do it in constant co-operation with companies. We just need to make sure we have all the patents in order before publishing, but the university actually helps us with that, too.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Hi,
Not charged. The substrate is pure silicon, with a thermal silicon oxide on top. It is then coated with silicone nanofilaments.
So, a piece of CD disc as the substrate, and silly putty as a coating, if we cut some corners.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Hi Jean,
Mechanical durability under abrasion is currently the biggest issue. In fabrics, some of the coating is buried in the fabric and protected, so they are one application, clothes etc.
Self-cleaning windows is another, though soot in cities tends to be problematic, cloaking the nanostructure and destroying the self cleaning properties.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Hi,
The field of research, within nanotechnology, is actually called biomimetics - the very reason being that it draws inspiration from nature.
While superhydrophobicity was already known before, the interest in it rose to a new level after the scientific explanation for the lotus effect:
Lotus being a symbol of purity in Budhism, if I'm not mistaken, due to it's leaves rem
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
An older sample at the bottom of a petri dish, surrounded by water and with a drop of water on it:
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Hi,
Nothing really brand new, but as I'm returning to a project where I'm studying superhydrophobic (or extremely water-repellent) surfaces, I thought I'd share a couple of images I took, in case people are not that aware of the subject:
I actually needed to study the properties of this surface underwater, but as I prepared the coating on a silicon chip, I had a hard time sin
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Hi all,
Long time, no read! The boards look great, although the thousands of new posts a bit intimidating!
I will have a quick read. Hope all is well!
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Coffee Shop
Hello,
I've just realized it would be time for me to move along from Hall of Ma'at. It's hasn't so much to do with the board itself, but a personal decision at this point.
I have had a lot of fun here, countless of hours spend on discussions where I've learned things I can't imagine I would have learned elsewhere. I've made some lifetime connections with p
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Coffee Shop
> Yeah right. So what's your solution? I want it
> with timelines, cost estimates, supply lines,
> permit estimates, how to cut through government
> red tape, energy requirments for running these
> gian machines, sources for basalt and the cost of
> crushing and distributing it and what the expected
> yield is going to be. To me it just underlines
> how
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Stop chopping down the rainforests would be a good
> start.
Yes, but it won't increase the sinks in any considerable way on this scale, it's just a way of not keep decreasing the carbon sinks.
To me, it just underlines how a comment aching to: easy, let's plant some trees' is naiv
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
OTOH chlorophyll based organisms
> have been regulating CO2 for billions of years and
> they've done it for free. So why not stick with
> the cheapest most effective means of planetary
> control of CO2 ever developed and let the plants
> do it.
During those billions of years, the plants have spread to all the places they can reach where the conditions are suitable.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Yes, I did read that, that's why we have lumber
> companies to chop down dead and dying trees and
> process them into useful items such as houses and
> furniture (making and using things out of wood is
> something the hominids have been doing for
> millions of years.) and keep the CO2 sequest
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
I officially announce that I will stop feeding the troll.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Ancient Egypt
If I have gotten your claims right, you take pride on how you work by the actual evidence, and not the prejudice of old interpretations.
New evidence surfaces, you rush to claim it changes nothing. Before we get the details, you inform us it doesn't show this or that.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Ancient Egypt
Would you define a 'soul', to make it easier for anyone to consider?
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Stange how the critics drop into
> Olympic caliber goal post moving.
What goal posts are being moved? Can you reference some sites that are accepted and some that were not, and highlight what the deciding factors are, so that I could get an idea why you keep repeating that the goal posts are being moved?
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> If you want funding, you must follow the wishes
> and intents of the people with the money. Have we
> learned nothing from Big Tobacco using peer
> reviewed studies to prove cigarettes are safe?
Just because some industries are funding studies and trying to tilt things, doesn't mean all funding
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> It's quite possible the tooth broke when the
> mastodon fell. It's also possible that humans used
> it as a tool of some kind until it broke, perhaps
> as an anvil.
It is. But all in all, it doesn't make a strong argument to claim to know exactly that some bones were broken due to hum
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> We have mastodon remains with a broken tooth and
> other broken bones, a carefully broken femur with
> the head next to it, a tusk shoved into the ground
> with the other laying beside it.
>
> If this were found in Russia or Gabon it would be
> hailed as an important early human site.
>
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
> We don't know why the tooth is broken. It may have
> broken when the mastodon fell. It may have been
> broken in a fight. But to say it was broken for
> marrow is specious a silly, as all early hominids
> knew teeth have no nutritive value.
We don't know how any of the bones broke. Claims are being made based on the other bones that were broken, that they must
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
> Why not? humans have been smashing things up for
> millions of years.
There is no 'not'. But that isn't really relevant, we don't even write history based on the 'why not's', and going back further, we need to be even more critical.
> And how did the tusk get jammed in the ground
> while the other one was lying on its side? Still
&
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> If there's one thing you get out of literature,
> it's that people are not logical beings.
Yes, but the argument for breaking the other bones is based on a logical argument for how people would act in such a situation. You can't pick and choose when you apply it.
And going back that far, t
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> So you can't explain the busted tooth, either. I
> broke a tooth. Maybe tiny hominjds are looking for
> marrow.
Other broken bones -> Must have been done by human.
The bones hardest to break -> No logic why human would do it -> No problem, must have broken by some unknown mechanism.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> I'm also a published author, and editor of several
> anthologies.
Congratulations. If you think all this has anything to do what is discussed here, I don't know how to continue.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> And Ulysses. Interesting failed experiments,
> nothing more.
>
> What the Hell do I know. I only have an MA in
> Literary Criticism, not Engineering or Physics,
> which are ideally suited for studying the written
> word in depth.
But I have relatives who are writers.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
> The same way you interpret what anyone writes.
> There's an entire field of study designed to do
> just that. It's called 'Literary Criticism'. Since
> you cannot know what the writer was actually
> thinking, you must concentrate on the written
> words. The choice of words conveys both the
> surface meaning and additional concepts, giving a
>
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> What I mean by splitting the money is the school
> subtracts out their 'administrative' costs which
> can be the lion's share of the grant money. The
> researcher gets what's left which is a fraction of
> what was awarded.
It all needs to be defined normally, at least here, an
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Rick Baudé Wrote:
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> Okay, let's talk about grants then. When a
> scientist gets a grant at one of the state-run
> colleges here does she get the money? Oh hell no.
> It goes to the school first which then subtracts
> out their 'administrative' costs and then doles
> out the rest of the grant as they s
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
Khazar-khum Wrote:
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> You guys really don't believe scientists are
> humans, do you?
Did I saa that? Are the people who don't tow the line not people?
You are drawing conclusions that are not justified by it. And then retort to something like the above.
Silly,and waste of time.
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Tommi Huhtamaki
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Laboratory
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