zoom44

Big fat bucky-ball rear wheels with smaller p-carborane front wheels give it extra traction for better acceleration to it's top speed of 9 nanomiles or .0005 inches an hour.

that means it does the 1/4 mile in about 3633 years breaking the previous 1/4 mile record by some 300 years. (if you can find the drag strip with a 1/4 mile of gold lanes )

http://www.livescience.com/technolog...er-100119.html

Vlaze

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I can't tell if I got dumber or smarter reading this.




Wait, what?

dynamho

Cool. Can someone do the math for scale speed?

RIWWP

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...uh, a nano shelf? Is that OEM or Aftermarket? How is the warranty on that thing?

mscamp02

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^haha yeah thats what I was wondering.

very cool

RIWWP

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So lets say it has an awesome factory laboratory warranty of 10 years, 100,000 miles um... 3.6 Feet.

Or would that be 1.453 billion years, 100,000 miles?

zoom44

yeah they have a buckyball nano parts bin they raid for stuff like this. you'd think for a purpose built racer they'd do custom. but that's American car companies nano-labs for you.

i wonder if they have a little carbon nanotube/buckball stig to drive the thing?

Gr8Bullet

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haha i feel like i got dumber.....

JinDesu

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Human hair - 25.4 micrometers = 0.0000254

Vehicle = 25.4 micrometers/50,000 (width) = 50.8x10^-11

Assume the length of the vehicle is 20 times it's width (20 atoms vs 1 in the picture) = 10.16x10^-9

I don't know what the proper length of a drag car is. I'm looking at pictures, and I'll throw out the arbitrary length of 1.5xnormal car length.

Normal cars are 5.1 meters long, 150% of that is 7.65 meters.

Your scale would be 7.65 meters / 10.16x10^-9 meters = 753,000,000 approximately (rounding up after the third leading integer).

So it goes at 0.014 millimeters an hour * 753,000,000 = 10,541 meters/hour

A mile has 1,609 meters. So this thing is traveling at 6.5 miles per hour.

Can anyone check my calcs :D?

kersh4w

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your math is off.

******* bad ***.

also, if you read the article jin, it says it travels at 9 nanomiles (.0005") per hour.

RIWWP

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He was trying to convert it to scale, so if you grew the nano dragster to the size of a normal dragster, and the speed at the same rate, what speed would it be going.



I am not going to even try to confirm his math

JinDesu

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Yep, was trying to convert it to scale. I made assumptions of size for:
1) The nano-dragster (50,000 times thinner than human hair)
2) The width of human hair (25.4 micrometers - http://hypertextbook.com/facts/1999/BrianLey.shtml, seems like a reasonable value)
3) The length of dragster (randomly guessed this one, if someone actually know the proper length and of one I would be glad to know)

RotorWheeee

Slap some stickers on it and cut your 1/4 mile times

kersh4w

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dragsters come in different lengths. (thats what she said.)

i think 15-20 feet is about right.

JinDesu

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Ok, that's fine. I counted for approximately 24 feet, we'll chock that extra 4 feet to super cool aero parts.

MaRxtin

so wheres the wings and vents...
read about this in AP Chem

SayNoToPistons

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It's only the matter of time before it gets a turbo kit and cobb ap.