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New study says carbon nanotubes might be as harmful as asbestos Was anyone other than me expecting this shoe to eventually drop? |
One of the most promising materials for the future of technology, carbon nanotubes, might be as harmful as asbestos if inhaled, according to a new study published today in the scientific journal Nature Nanotechnology.
Animal studies indicate that these long and very thin carbon molecules could cause a cancer called mesothelioma in the lining of the lungs.
“The problem of asbestos was caused when it was released into the air, if it was handled inappropriately or incorrectly. Carbon nanotubes could do the same.
Do we seriously believe that anything made in a laboratory is truly safe for us?
Yikes. It did seem like Carbon nanotube was the perfect material locked up in Area 51 from the alien space craft.
This stuff has amazing characteristics in so many disciplines.
almost any material, if inhaled or ingested, especially in large amounts, will cause cancer.
you have to breath in asbestos all the time to get cancer – most of the people who got cancer from asbestos worked with the material every day.
lead paint is only bad if you eat it. so don’t.
a pound of plutonium inside a cardboard box won’t release enough radition to harm you. but if you swallow an ounce in powdered form you’d be dead within days.
so before the EPA goes nuts and bans carbon-nano tubes from existence maybe we could calm down and use some common sense.
carbon-nano tubes for super-strong, light-weight materials: good.
carbon-nano tubes sprinkled on rice krispie squares: bad.
carbon-nano tubes sprinkled on rice krispie squares: bad.
Drat, there goes my plans for marketing “Nano Frosted Flakes”.
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J/P=?
Alarmist bullcrap. There are many many more things to be worried about chemically and physically. Like micro particles of rubber littering every single highway, everywhere. Or hundreds of chemicals that we still have no idea what effects they have on anything biological, but we use them anyway.
They haven’t even determined what the macro uses of the tubes will be yet anyway, so we have no basis to determine whether their application will be dangerous or not.
I think this is an astounding use of nanotubes
#6 A little late to the party I see. It was funny when it first was used, now its just lame and gay.
It’s carbon it must be evil.
So no carbon-nano tube bra for my man boobs?
If you and others stop reporting on this nonsense it will finally go away before we all die of something.
On the plus side, its good to see this sort of testing occuring on a product before it goes into wide release. As opposed to the usual practice of covering things up until the weight of lawsuits from the dying and dead peoples families becomes to large.
Could carbon nanotubes be the next WMD?!?!
trial lawyers, start your engines!
Next glue.
Here is a brief background on some of the first work towards synthetic gecko adhesives up through 2003.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Gecko/gecko-history.html